Hitesh Palghat

Experience

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  Innomantra

  Apr 2014 - May 2014

  Summer Intern

  ✔ Worked on the Market Expansion of Innomantra to explore new opportunities in US and Europe.✔ Developed a Marketing Kit on-par with International Marketing Practices.✔ Contribution to streamline the company’s Marketing efforts.✔ Secondary research of Top Global Consulting firms in the field of Innovation Management.

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  SDM Institute for Management Development

  Jun 2014 - Feb 2015

  Student Coordinator

  ✔ Elected Representative of the Student Community.✔ Responsible for conducting Institute's National-Level Management Competition 'Naissance'.✔ Assisting the Institute’s Management for conducting various International & National Conferences.✔ Liaising between Management, Student Committees and Students for all relevant activities.

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  Cognizant Softvision

  Mar 2015 - Oct 2016

  Business Analyst

  ✔ 'Star of the Month' Award within the first six months of joining.✔ Proxy Product Owner Leading End-to-End Requirement Management Activities for building a Product for a Leading US Retailer.✔ Successful implementation of Epics and User Stories based on Agile Scrum Methodology. ✔ Review & Monitoring of UAT, Application Prototyping, User Manuals and End User Training. ✔ Responsible for Gap Analysis, Requirement Management and Process Documentation for one of the Flagship Products of the company's Retail Suite of Products. Show less

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  Cognizant

  Oct 2016 - Dec 2018

  Business Analyst

  ✔ Led Solution Design & Requirement Management Activities for building a Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solution for a Fortune 500 company.✔ Proxy Product Owner in building a Web-based Application Development Project for one of the Industry leaders using Agile Scrum Methodology of Software Development. ✔ POC for driving UAT Activities along with creation of UML Diagrams.✔ Responsible to conduct Sprint Review Meetings/Client Demos

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  Wipro

  Dec 2018 - Jan 2020

  Business Analyst

  ✔ 'Employee of the Month' Award within the first six months of joining.✔ Consulting & Business Analysis for one of the World's Largest Internet Search Company.✔ Providing Strategic Insights to Client on Product Proposals and Process Improvement Activities. ✔ Liaise closely with Client and Internal Stakeholders for achieving goals on time.

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  Cotiviti

  Jan 2020 - now

  ✔ Serving as the Primary Liaison between Business and Development Units✔ Responsible for Requirement Management/Analysis/Documentation for Two Agile Teams✔ Providing a System Demo at the end of each Program Increment (PI) to all the members on the Agile Release Train (ART)✔ Responsible for approving all user stories as ‘Done’ during each Sprint✔ Actively contribute to the PI Planning process✔ Responsible to maintain a prioritized backlog of items for the PI and at the Sprint level✔ Coordinating UAT with Business Users and Assisting in Production Issues Show less

  • Senior Technical Product Owner

    Mar 2023 - now

  • Technical Product Owner

    Jun 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Business Analyst

    Jan 2020 - Jun 2021