Meena Patel
Cumming
Summary
Over 14 years, I've thrived in both QA and product ownership roles, driving performance through top-quality standards and innovative teams. As a Product Owner, I excel at collaborating with cross-functional teams to transform ideas into successful products. Leveraging agile methodologies and my analytical skills, I influence product roadmaps and drive strategies that deliver results.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Product Owner
NCR Voyix
09.2022 - Current
- Spearheaded the development and launch of a new financial integration platform, transforming it into a critical advantage for client retention and driving a significant surge in new contracts
- Partnered with the development team and stakeholders to identify and define new features that addressed market needs and user feedback, enhancing product value
- Through close collaboration with UX/UI designers, we optimized product interfaces, leading to a measurable improvement in user experience
- Partnered with the engineering team to identify and implement process improvements, streamlining development and enhancing efficiency
- Championed the implementation of the Safe methodology, driving a 10% reduction in product delivery time and solidifying myself as a key player in streamlining our development process
- Leveraged Safe principles in product management to foster enhanced cross-team collaboration and transparency, resulting in improved visibility of interdependencies between products
- Implemented a revamped backlog grooming process, resulting in a 35% team productivity surge and a 40% lead time decrease
- This empowered the team to deliver faster and more efficiently
- Delivered a product training session tailored to the needs of internal stakeholders, providing them with the necessary skills to effectively utilize the product
- Through consistent defect triage, I identified and prioritized high-impact issues, facilitating faster product improvement
- Led the Quality Engineering team in adopting industry best practices, enhancing quality assurance processes in the absence of a QA leader.
Director of Quality Engineering
Benchmark Analytics
08.2022 - 09.2022
- Partnered with the engineering team to define and implement a robust QA process, enhancing software quality control
- In a brief tenure at Benchmark, I identified key team challenges and implemented workable solutions with potential for further improvement
- Successfully onboarded a new team member, bolstering the test team's capacity and ensuring adequate coverage.
QA Leader|Product Owner
NCR
06.2018 - 08.2022
- Collaborated extensively with the UX designer throughout the user story incubation and creation process, ensuring a user-centric approach.
- Bridged the gap between features and development by translating them into user stories for the backlog. Owned the backlog, prioritizing and ranking stories to align with stakeholder requirements and ensure value delivery.
- Delivered a product training session to the Tech Support and UAT teams, providing them with the necessary skills to effectively support and test the product.
- "Championed Agile practices to cultivate a disciplined and transparent project environment, enabling efficient collaboration and informed decision-making
- Owned the QA function through resource management, test process planning, and activity delegation
- This streamlined testing workflows and maximize team productivity
- Closely tracked testing progress during each project phase, delivering timely test results and in-depth status reports
- This facilitated swift identification and resolution of issues before release
- Proactively identified and addressed potential QA risks, preventing escalation to senior management
- Collaborated effectively with global cross-functional teams to guarantee exceptional testing quality
- Partnered with the development team to secure the availability of diverse testing environments, facilitating efficient testing throughout the development lifecycle
- Acted as a mentor for nearshore and offshore teams, providing guidance and support to enhance their QA expertise.
Head of Department Quality Engineering
Promethean world
12.2013 - 06.2018
- Led the QA team from the ground up, defining test strategies, planning execution, managing resources, and establishing a robust and comprehensive QA process for the organization
- Led a distributed QA team, allocating tasks effectively between onsite and offshore resources
- Supervised testing progress and results, ensuring adherence to the defined test approach and high-level scenarios I established
- Championed a smooth testing process for the QA team
- I tackled issues and roadblocks, while also providing valuable technical and strategic insights, leading to a more efficient and effective testing environment
- Spearheaded improvements to bug reporting and triage processes, ensuring timely delivery against release schedules
- By optimizing the system and refining regression testing procedures, I significantly boosted the QA team's overall efficiency
- Played a pivotal role in driving QA and process improvements, ensuring product quality and on-time delivery
- Provided leadership for a combined onshore and offshore team, ensuring effective communication, task delegation, and project execution
- Create and present the project highlights to internal stakeholders.
Sr. QA Analyst
Turner Broadcasting
07.2013 - 12.2013
- Execute test scenarios from within HP ALM for CMS3 content management system
- Performed Functional, Negative, Positive, Integration, End to End Testing
- Developed system testing estimates, system and regression test cases, system testing execution, and documentation of test results
- Along with testing, involved in TC mapping process between different tool used in the organization
- Performed both new functionality and regression tests in which to identify, analyze and report issues utilizing the Spirit bug tracking tool
- Actively involved in Scrum and sprint meetings.
QA Engineer
Spectrum K12
05.2011 - 07.2013
- Active member of scrum team
- Involved in Manual testing a web application
- Managed Test plans, test cases
- Developed SQL scripts to validate relational database tables.
QA Analyst/Tester
Tech soft
08.2007 - 09.2010
- Primary duties included Manual testing of Web software
- Used Jira to update user stories status and report defects
- Participated in all phases of the test cycle, including Integration/System Testing and Regression Testing etc
- Performed data-driven testing by writing SQL queries to ensure the data integrity and validation of data.
Education
BS computer science -
Georgia state University
BS Architecture -
University of Texas At arlington
Skills
- Product management
- Agile Methodology
- Lean Mindset
- Project management
- Data-driven Decision Making
- Resource Management
- Jira
- confluence
- Jira Align
- SQL
- Process Improvement
- Kanban
- Cross-functional leadership
- Product Training
- Scrum Methodology
- Product Planning
- Roadmap development
- Acceptance Criteria Development
- Backlog Prioritization
- Technical acumen
- Release planning
- Product Roadmapping
Certification
Certified SAFe 6 Product Owner/Product Manager
Timeline
Sr Product Owner
NCR Voyix
09.2022 - Current
Director of Quality Engineering
Benchmark Analytics
08.2022 - 09.2022
QA Leader|Product Owner
NCR
06.2018 - 08.2022
Head of Department Quality Engineering
Promethean world
12.2013 - 06.2018
Sr. QA Analyst
Turner Broadcasting
07.2013 - 12.2013
QA Engineer
Spectrum K12
05.2011 - 07.2013
QA Analyst/Tester
Tech soft
08.2007 - 09.2010
BS computer science -
Georgia state University
BS Architecture -
University of Texas At arlington
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