Amit Kumar

Experience

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  Subex Ltd

  Apr 2007 - Sept 2016

  • Leading a team of Junior’s Onsite Engineers/Business Analysts.• Responsible for understanding the business requirements by conducting workshop with customer using Statement of Work (SOW) and Request for Proposal (RFP) as base document.• Formulates and defines project scope, objectives, constraints and assumptions using existing documented processes based upon user needs as well as a thorough knowledge of the application, business, operations and industry.• Responsible for comprehensive analysis and solution development for requirements and preparing Business Requirement Document (BRD) and Functional Specification document (FSD).• Responding to RFPs/RFIs and conducting workshops with business.• Base lining BRD and FSD and getting sign off from customer.• Participate in design sessions in prototyping new systems or enhancements.• Analyze the impact of business requirements changes to the project.• Work with the business stakeholders to rationalize and prioritize the business requirements.• Co-coordinating with business and IT across all phases of software development life cycle.• Defined plan for performance assessment of all the business analysis activities.• Performed extensive gap analysis to determine risks.• Conducting weekly call with Business stake holders and circulating MOM on Project status.• Work with Development and QA teams to transition business requirements into QA test cases.• Writing UAT/System Test case and executing them after Software installation at customer production environment.• Reporting and following up on issues reported during User Acceptance Testing till closure.• Measured application performance against agreed KPI’s and assisted customer by recommending enhancements and identified new business requirements.• Responsible for getting UAT sign off and post production launch providing Technical, Business support to customer for any issues/clarifications/gaps. Show less • Involved in the SDLC phase of requirement analysis, design, and development of the intranet based application.• Successfully used Agile/Scrum Method for gathering requirements and facilitated user stories workshop. Documented User Stories and facilitated Story Point discussions to analyze the level of effort on project specifications• Conducted walkthroughs with the different department heads to have a deeper understanding of the requirements.• Conducted JAD sessions to allow different stakeholders to communicate their perspectives, resolve issues, and reach agreements.• Analyzed and documented the business requirements and generated reports for the Manager.• Functioned as the primary liaison between the business, operations, and technical groups throughout the project cycle.• Follow up with the end users and developers for user satisfaction and change management if necessary• Conducted weekly call with Business stake holders and circulating MOM on Project status.• Performed extensive Gap analysis to determine the risks and assisted the PM in budget and resource planning.• Organized and managed all phases of the software testing process, including planning tests, writing test cases, executing tests and tracking defects using Quality Center.• Worked extensively with the QA team for designing Test Plan and Test Cases for the User Acceptance testing (UAT) and validation.• Participated in creating User manuals.• Wrote SQL scripts for creating performance evaluation reports. • Maintained Traceability Matrix throughout the project.• Assisted customer in developing content and training materials; recommended enhancements and identified new business requirements.• Participated in the bug review meetings, updated requirements document as per business user feedback and change in functionality of the application. Show less • Study and Review the Functional specification document.• Preparing the System test plan.• Developed the Test cases based on the Test Scenarios.• Preparing the traceability matrix. • Involved in reviewing the Test cases and Identifying and updating the Test cases for change requests.• Brought up the database for the release by running the table space script and DB scripts.• Taking server and client check out from SVN repository and compilation.• Installing and deploying the Data Adaptors in Diamond client.• Performed the installation testing.• Performed System testing on system test environment.• Replicating the production setup by importing the Nikira schema and Nikira Data for application version upgrade project.• Report defects and follow up for resolution and retest the defects.• Testing the build compatibility across various operating systems• Manual testing of new functionalities/enhancements and bug fixes.• Updating bug status in SQC tool (Subex quality centre).• Automating new/enhanced functionalities using Watir open source tool.• Regression testing based on batch execution of automated test cases.• Updating repository for release contents.• Involved in doing RCA for DSR's (Defect status report) got from site.• Consolidate the release and make packaged release to site.• Automated the Test Scenarios using WATIR (Web Application Testing in Ruby). 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  • Product Consultant

    Apr 2014 - Sept 2016

  • Onsite Engineer

    Dec 2009 - Mar 2014

  • Senior Testing & Configuration Engineer

    Apr 2007 - Nov 2009
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  Ramyam Intelligence Lab (Part of Arvato)

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2017

  Lead Business Analyst

  • Drove web migration for customer experience management product.• Conducted market analysis, built user-centric web UI, and defined product roadmap forcompetitive edge.

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  Schneider Electric

  Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

  Product Owner/Engagement Manager

  • Led the digital transformation of a global Quote-to-Order application using low-code tool (OutSystems), boosting efficiency and user experience.• Managed vendor selection, product development, roadmap, and UI/UX design.• Successfully retired a legacy app with 1000+ users in 3 months.• Led a team of 4 Product Owners to achieve business goals.

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  Siemens

  Jul 2018 - now

  Product Management Specialist

  • Implemented an IoT-based digital solution for the metal manufacturing industry, achieving ROI in under 2 years• Created and presented customer portfolios, and crafted tailored proposals with the sales team• Led core component development for an enterprise industrial automation platform, delivering APIs for robust UI and backend solutions• Directed a team of 1000+ engineers to optimize for high-resolution displays, enhancing user satisfaction and productivity• Executed a long-term sustainability strategy for legacy components, reducing technical debt, fostering innovation, and cutting total cost of ownership by 50%• Developed a cloud-based industrial automation platform for SMEs, enabling cost-effective, on-demand engineering and operations Show less