Arpan Sinha

Experience

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  Wipro

  Jan 2009 - May 2011

  Involved in testing project for non-life insurance products of Zurich Financial Services Switzerland, Spain & UK Involved in the application support for HDFC Bank

  • Senior Engineer

    Mar 2010 - May 2011

  • Project Engineer

    Jan 2009 - Feb 2010
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  NortonLifeLock

  May 2011 - Sept 2019

  Product Owner and Sr SDET on a 10 member scrum team responsible for managing the backlog & prioritization for Norton Password Manager aka Identity Safe Mobile for both iOS & Android while acting a quality gatekeeper before accepting & closing stories. Managed the delivery of the monetized version of the application in Japan resulting in an annual recurring revenue of USD $2.5millionHelped improve the ratings of the application on App Store and Google Play by gathering user feedback and pain points and prioritizing solutions for the same.Worked closely with the Product Manager in the US to understand the vision, roadmap and epics before discussing the same with the scrum team in India.Product Owner for the Wi-Fi security module under the Norton Mobile Security application during a 5 month engagement to help the NMS team them build a brand new flavor of the application ground up in quick time. Show less I work on the functional testing of the C++ based Norton Antivirus PC product(NAV/NIS/N360/NS/NSBU))Responsible for the end to end testing of the Backup and Tuneup features along with devising the test plan for delivering this feature.Experienced in testing SSO, Norton Account, Management portal etc. Worked on 5 major product releases and received several applause awards in the process for good work.Also involved in Automation of the norton product features using Python scripting.Experienced in working in the Waterfall model and currently practicing the Agile Scrum model. Show less

  • Sr Product Owner

    Mar 2016 - Sept 2019

  • Software Development Engineer In Test

    Jun 2014 - Feb 2016

  • Sr SQA Analyst

    May 2011 - Jun 2014
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  Sasken Technologies Limited

  Oct 2019 - Apr 2020

  Agile Project Manager

  Service Owner (Scrum Master + Product Owner) for the GIS application teams of 15 engineers, one of the several module teams under the CAT Productivity product suite at Caterpillar Inc. Managed the requirement gathering, prioritization, PI planning, dependency resolution and application delivery in 6 months working onsite for a successful demo at CONEXPO'21 in Las Vegas. Also coached the team on scrum principles.

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  Gogo

  Apr 2020 - Sept 2021

  Program Manager

  GOGO was acquired by INTELSAT in December 2020Scrum master & agile coach for a cross functional teams of 45 engineers across India and US in the commercial aviation software division providing In-flight Wi-Fi Connectivity (IFE) and In-flight Entertainment Services (IFE) to commercial airlines across the globe.Supported the RTE in Chicago during PI planning to mitigate any PI risks and participated in weekly SoS/ART syncs.Actively collaborated with Engineering, Product leadership and other PMO team members in India and Chicago, US to help the scrum team resolve any challenges.Facilitated all the scrum ceremonies such as sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint retrospectives and PI retrospective for the team virtually during the Covid-19 pandemic using Miro collaboration softwareCollected metrices such as say/do ratio, scope change, cycle time, WIP and executed changes in order to improve team’s efficiency and predictability. Show less

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  Bayes Business School

  Sept 2021 - Nov 2022

  Full-time MBA Candidate

  Strategy and Digital Transformation

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  EY-Parthenon

  Jan 2023 - now

  Senior Executive (Manager)

  - Conducting product and technology due diligence across the portfolio of the target software company and advising private equity clients during the pre-deal phase of M&A - Assessing product strategy and roadmap, choice of technology and architecture, hosting landscape, and R&D teams and processes- Identifying value creation opportunities from a product and technology point of view- Agile team leader