Rakesh Kumar Amrit Kumar

About Rakesh Kumar Amrit Kumar

13+ years of experience as a Product Owner, and Project Manager.Experience in all phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Change Management, Test Management and Release Management.Leader of the core agile team actively participating in planning, retrospectives, demos and daily stand ups.Experience with Functional Analysis, Identifying Solutions, Building Business Scenarios, Test Cases and Test Planning.Experience in working with multicultural teams spread across the globe.Strong Analytical and Requirement Gathering and effective problem solving skills.Experience in Business Process definition and Use case Analysis.Organize and document requirements in accordance with industry standards (Vision, Use cases, product backlogs and User Stories)Experience in technical writing, risk management, problem solving, strategic and critical thinking and facilitating brainstorming.Experience in conducting JAD (Joint Application Discussion) and facilitation sessions with stakeholders and ensuring conclusive discussions.Exposure in Performance Testing using tools like CA Wiley and EHCache Console, Functional Testing using tool like Splunk, and Integration Testing of web services and MQ’s using tools like SOAP UI and Hermes JMS respectively, End to End testing between various systems via TIBCO topics, Regression Testing and User Acceptance Testing.Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and under pressure.Experience on waterfall methodology in transactional systems (e-commerce) and agile methodology in business intelligence (Reporting) systems.Experience with SQL and relational databases. Oracle and SQL server. Experience with data modelling concepts (Star and Snowflake models, normalized and denormalized models)Knowledge on Oracle Retail Merchandising Systems (ORMS) and ReSA.Proven Agile/ Scrum experience and willing to guide BI Service line team members in methodologies

Experience

1. Product Manager

   Tata Consultancy Services

   Apr 2014 — Present · Plano, TX, US

   Attending the program level meeting to define the high level scope both at enterprise level and each application level. To assist the Project manager in providing high level estimates and schedule for each phase of the project life cycle. Build project plan and resourcing for each phase of project life cycle in conjunction with multiple vendors. Conduct requirement workshops with Business users to understand and document Business requirements. Document the business requirements in a Business Requirement Document with requirement traceability matrix. Presenting a high level solution approach using mock screens, listing down the business rules, charting down the new Data Model and conducting mock Performance testing in a production simulated environment. Converting business requirements into functional specifications in a Functional Specification Document that also covers the Non-functional requirements as well. Conduct JAD session with all interfacing teams to understanding interfacing Stakeholder requirements. Documenting the Integration requirement document that includes contractual changes, interfacing Business rules, Data flow diagram and sample XML files. Collecting sign off from key stakeholders on BRD, FSD and IRD and raising a change request for all requirements out of these documents. Verifying the End-to-End scenario created by the testing team and providing a sign off. Assisting the testing team in data set up for End-to-End scenario. Assisting business users in conducting User Acceptance testing. Supporting the Implementation SME’s during production installs and assisting business users to do the smoke testing. Documenting lessons learnt from each release and applying them for future releases.

Skills

• Db2
• Pl/Sql
• Jcl
• Cobol
• Informatica
• Requirements Analysis
• Sql
• Quality Center
• Sdlc
• Data Warehousing
• Scrum
• Data Science
• Obiee
• Tableau
• Agile Methodologies
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Ibm Db2