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Annu Kumari

Product Owner
Annu Kumari

Summary

Dynamic professional with a diverse background spanning 1.5 years of experience as a Product Owner and extensive tenure as a QA Manager within the e-commerce and various other platforms. Proficient in navigating the intersection between client requirements and development teams, with a proven track record of driving successful product outcomes. Possesses a solid foundation in quality assurance methodologies, coupled with strategic vision and stakeholder management skills.

Overview

6
years of professional experience
2
Certifications

Work History

Gofore

Product Owner
04.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Collaborate with clients to understand their business needs and gather requirements for software products or solutions.
  • Define and communicate the product vision, ensuring alignment with the client's goals and objectives.
  • Maintain and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring that it reflects the client's priorities and delivers maximum value.
  • Serve as the primary liaison between the client and the development team, facilitating communication and managing expectations.
  • Work closely with clients to define features and user stories, ensuring that they meet business objectives and user needs.
  • Collaborate with the development team to plan and prioritize releases, considering factors such as scope, timeline, and budget.
  • Collaborate with QA teams to define testing strategies and ensure that products meet quality standards and client requirements.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, designers, and testers, to deliver successful projects.
  • Conduct business analysis activities, such as market research and competitor analysis, to identify opportunities for product improvement.

Gofore

Agile QA Manager
04.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Led a team of 4-6 highly motivated testers in planning, designing and executing comprehensive test plans and test cases for multiple software projects.
  • Test Automation using Robot framework , Manual testing of both desktop and mobile.
  • Managing the test team as well as co-ordination with other team members.
  • Creating new test cases as well as improving previous test cases according to the development of the tool Timesheet.
  • Coordinating directly with PO, Designers and Tech team for analysis of requirement regarding testing as well as well implementation of Right shift testing in SDLC process.
  • Tools: BrowserStack , Git , Jira , Confluence.

Project A Ventures

Associate Product Owner
05.2022 - 02.2023

Job overview

● Responsible and accountable for generating the Portfolio Projects and assist in prioritization

● Define stories and acceptance criteria that make up the feature backlog.

● Ensure that the product value, specifications and features are well understood and finalized with stakeholders across the enterprise and the backlog is accurate, groomed and visible.

● Providing the detailed information of the existing system and the required system.

● Coordinates dependencies for development story readiness.

● Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, and software demonstrations.

● Coach team on Agile processes and best practices.

Valve Corporation

Associate Product Owner

Job overview

● Responsible and accountable for generating the stories and acceptance criteria that make up the feature backlog.

● Refines backlog based on product changes, development progress and stakeholder feedback.

● Tracks and reports progress, risks and issues on feature roadmap to stakeholders and portfolio team.

● Ensures the Development Team understands items in the Backlog to the level needed. Assists team in identifying and solving problems.

● Works effectively with others to remove delivery roadblocks at the Program level.

● Collaborates in development of the Sprint/Iteration Backlog, and setting of the Sprint Goals.

● Identifies and names conflict and helps team solve it. Mediates as needed but mostly brings collaboration skills to the team.

● Participates in Communities of Excellence meetings in order to request updates to process and tools

● Ensure that the product value, specifications, and features are well understood and finalized with stakeholders across the enterprise and the backlog is accurate, groomed and visible. There must be 6 weeks of “ready” work available for the team.

● Ensure that the Team is operating efficiently and effectively with no blockages. Team's progress should be easy to discern from Scrum and other information management tools.

● Status of current work is clear and proactively shared.

FlowRite

QA Manager

Job overview

  • Assisting in setting up QA process from base (JIRA bug flow, test cases, test suite, bug format etc )
  • Guiding regarding importance of QA on various environment and setting up the QA flow.
  • Definition of the multi-level system environments (DEV, TEST, STG PROD) in the network as well as the test data management
  • AI Extension testing on different environments and features.
  • Creating acceptance criteria out of feature specification in order for clear testing requirements.
  • Creating e2e testing scripts for regression test cases.
  • Assisted in hiring junior QA specialist.

HomeTiger

Junior Product Owner
02.2021 - 05.2022

Job overview


  • End to end product development from ideation to completion for entire Marketplace Customer Journey.
  • Defining product strategy, vision, long term, short term goals and roadmap.
  • Product backlog management & sprint planning.
  • Working closely with cross functional teams such as engineers, data scientists, sales, marketing, SEO teams.
  • Defining KPIs & monitoring them regularly to understand business impact of the works.
  • Having AB tests to measure the effect of the features.
  • Collected and collated business requirements from the Product Owner and the Portfolio team.
  • Supported and maintained performance of the existing system through thorough impact analysis.
  • Also worked on the change requests in existing processes.
  • Worked as a Scrum Master for two Agile teams.
  • Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features.
  • Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders.
  • Direct and lead development team from project initiation through delivery of final product.
  • Managed and maintained the reports on the progress of two agile teams for the organizational dashboards.
  • Analyzing the existing system to check whether the system could support the solution or not.
  • Communicating the required modifications to the development team.
  • Unit and functional testing post process development.
  • Gave demo to the stakeholders and regularly showcased the development efforts of the team within the organization.
  • Prepared presentation and documentations about the new features added to the existing process of a high visibility customer service project as per requirements to keep a track of the changes and for future references.

Hometiger

QA Manager Workstudent

Job overview

  • Working closely with Head of product , Tech lead and designers and set up QA process from base single handedly.(JIRA flow, test
  • cases, Test Suite, Bug format, Test Rail etc )
  • Test requirements from specifications, mapping test case requirements and design test coverage plan.
  • Managed the STLC of reported issues in production applications.(monitor, reproduce, analyze, prioritize, communicate).
  • Collaborated closely with engineering team, product managers, internal and external stakeholders, external integration platform
  • providers team.
  • Features focused mainly : Website homepage , category page checkout product specification for basket feature, ERP, payment flows,
  • order flow, products, data migrations and A/B testing.
  • Learned and worked on new integration tools like Channel Engine and internal team training for order flow.
  • Closely working with marketing teams and tested Click out rates exploring tools like Google

Trycon

QA Analyst
05.2019 - 10.2020

Job overview

  • Worked closely with CEO , designer and developers with excellent communication and clear goal oriented target to achieve the QA goals single handedly.
  • Conducted manual or tool based (Browser Stack, Postman, Selenium, JMeter) test on all four existing products of Trycon. (QCG, Batch,Ticket Generator, API) .
  • Successfully delivered the revamped project after testing on different staging and production environment.
  • Cross-platform testing (BrowserStack , JUnit)
  • Selenium automation testing

Novnex Pvt. Ltd.

QA Analyst
05.2018 - 03.2019

Job overview

  • Web and mobile app testing
  • Created Requirement Specifications and Design Documents.
  • Involvement in Test Design with respect to Test Plan and using Test Execution and Defect Reporting using Bug tracking tool
  • Performing Sanity, GUI, Functional and Regression Testing

Education

Hochschule Für Technik Und Wirtschaft
Berlin

MBA from Global Procurement & Project Management
04.2001

IMS Engineering College
India

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science And Programming
04.2001

Skills

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Certification

[CSPO] Training - [May 2025]

Timeline

Product Owner

Gofore
04.2023 - Current

Agile QA Manager

Gofore
04.2023 - Current

Associate Product Owner

Project A Ventures
05.2022 - 02.2023

Junior Product Owner

HomeTiger
02.2021 - 05.2022

QA Analyst

Trycon
05.2019 - 10.2020

QA Analyst

Novnex Pvt. Ltd.
05.2018 - 03.2019

Hochschule Für Technik Und Wirtschaft

MBA from Global Procurement & Project Management
04.2001

IMS Engineering College

Bachelor of Science from Computer Science And Programming
04.2001

Associate Product Owner

Valve Corporation

QA Manager

FlowRite

QA Manager Workstudent

Hometiger
Annu KumariProduct Owner