Shweta Gupta

About Shweta Gupta

Significant experience in working with stakeholders at all levels, envisioning usage of new technology, product vision, product strategy, and tailoring its use to achieve customer needs by utilizing the design thinking process• Possess excellent leadership, communication, critical thinking, decision making, mentoring, and team-building skills • Skilled Product Owner with a focus on learning customer needs and feedback, prioritizing and refining the product backlog, participating in PI Planning, and successfully delivering the products to end-users• Well-versed in giving presentations, demos, training, designing screen prototypes, wireframes, and mock-ups for clients• Proficient Project Manager with a track record of handling teams, cross functions, customers\' needs, and business operations by employing project management principles• Well-versed in Lean, Agile principles, and Waterfall methodologies• Expertise in managing Scrum/Kanban boards from scratch to create epics, features, user stories, and scheduling sprint demos • Possess Scrum Master skills with a keen ability to understand and focus on removing impediments, guiding team• Experienced in Resource & vendors management, KPI based dashboards creation, providing a regular status update • Team management – set clear OKRs for groups, mentoring, monitor progress, discover training needs and coaching, motivate, reward accomplishments, organize team-building activities, task delegation, resolve conflict• Regular interaction and communication with the Key stakeholder, leadership, and other teams• Requirement elicitation, analysis, functional testing, application testing, defect management, release management, & status reporting• Work closely with product managers on the roadmap, handle conflicts and manage delivery schedules product releases• Manage onsite and offshore development, testing, project delivery teams, and external consultants• Responsible for backlog management, grooming, prioritization, and sequencing• Closely work with the Product Managers to implement design thinking processes like as-is journey maps, pain and gain, presentations, wireframes, and prototypes• Participate in PI planning, creation of user stories, spikes, and acceptance criteria• Preparation of SDLC documents such as requirements specifications, design specs & test scripts• Learning about the current system, determining, and addressing the gaps/risks in the current process• Demo and presentation of Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and final products to stakeholders and teams

Experience

1. Senior Consultant

   Cognizant

   Mar 2021 — Present

   Responsibilities: • Collaborate with Business to understand the business problem statements and convert them into user stories in Azure Devops.• Create Project Charter and get it approved from all stakeholders. • Convert user stories in a way understandable to development teams.• Prioritize the product backlog according to business value and stakeholder inputs.• Develop the product roadmap and build the consensus on prioritization which drives product execution.• Convey the vision and goal at the beginning of every release and sprint to Development Teams. • Represent the stakeholders, end-users, and customers to the team, answer questions and provide direction.• Organize and Participate in the planning meetings, reviews (demo), and retrospective meetings.• Prepare System test cases and performed Systems Testing for various sprints.• Updating agreed on changes in Product Backlog and resolving bottlenecks/ Technical issues. • Work with business, other teams, and developers to identify the existing system defects and get them resolved based on the priority.• Prepare Agile Coaching and documentations to project team.• Resolve Project issues and impediments raised during Dali SCRUM meeting.

Education

• Apeejay College of Engineering

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science

  2002 — 2006

• Harvard Business School Online

  Leadership Principles

  2020 — 2020

Skills

• English
• Unix
• Sdlc
• Java
• Microsoft Office
• Sql
• Agile Methodologies
• Html
• Jsp
• Business Analysis
• Javascript
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Outlook
• Windows
• Requirements Analysis
• Web Services
• Microsoft Excel
• Powerpoint
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Microsoft Word
• Struts
• Pl/Sql