Sumeet S.
Senior Product Owner
Experience
Product Manager
IKEA, Group Digital
- Interact with business stakeholders and understand business needs
- Define the product road map, product strategy and lead end-to-end journey and coordination with other product owners, engineering managers and business owners
- Work with internal and external customers to analyze needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals
- Build and maintain omni and delivery documentation and training guides
- Manage, plan and supervise the rollout of complex initiatives by understanding systems, processes and integrations
- Write and refine user stories, features, and epics
- Collaborate closely with development and engineering teams to communicate requirements, deliver new features, and remove roadblocks
- Lead the agile team and represent it to stakeholders, clients, or users
- Own and manage product roadmap, product backlog, feature prioritization, and decision-making
- Set sprint and product increment goals for the team
- Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics, and themes aligned with product strategy
- Coordinate with global and local agile product owners and product managers across multiple delivery streams
Product Owner
H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB
- Gather end-to-end requirements and perform business analysis
- Write functional specifications and manage requirements
- Lead design and architectural discussions for end-to-end solutions
- Prepare business cases and coordinate business acceptance tests
- Plan, coordinate, execute and follow up with project teams, business, country super users and IT vendors
- Provide onsite support during planning and pilot phases for new markets and warehouses
- Document business requirements and execute business test plans for new brand expansion projects including OtherStories in 10 countries
- Support grand openings onsite in new countries (Serbia, South Korea, India, Macau, South Africa)
- Coordinate with country business users to clarify requirements and design acceptance criteria
- Facilitate and lead workshops and meetings with IT vendors and suppliers
Senior Business Analyst/Product Owner
H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB
- Gather and analyze business requirements for rollout of global POS solution (TP.net, EFT payments, gift card and loyalty program)
- Write functional specifications and manage requirement changes
- Conduct design and architectural workshops
- Prepare and support business acceptance tests and end user trainings
- Coordinate project planning, execution and follow-up with stakeholders and IT vendors
- Provide onsite support during pilot and go-live phases
Business Analyst
IKEA (HCL Sweden AB)
- Coordinate with business users and IKEA IT groups to understand requirements and analyze business problems
- Prepare specification documents for change requests
- Review and approve implementation specifications delivered by vendor
- Create use cases, test cases and business critical scenarios for change requests
- Analyze change requests and suggest optimal solutions
- Verify and validate bi-directional traceability of the system against business requirements
- Plan and prepare for execution of acceptance tests
- Create test plans, acceptance criteria and test reports
- Follow up with super users in various countries performing business acceptance tests
- Manage communication with super users and operations teams to secure test environments
- Participate in pilots and rollouts of releases in countries
- Perform risk analysis and effort estimation for open defects
- Participate in evaluation studies of POS and cash handling systems
Business Analyst/Test Analyst
IKEA (HCL Sweden AB)
- Coordinate with business users and IT groups for closed cash handling system requirements
- Create use cases, test cases and business critical scenarios
- Plan and execute acceptance tests and report results
- Manage communication with super users and operations teams
- Participate in pilots and rollout of releases
- Perform risk analysis and effort estimation for defects
Business Analyst/Test Analyst
IKEA (HCL Sweden AB)
- Gather requirements and coordinate global rollout of express checkout self-service POS system
- Create use cases, test cases and business critical scenarios
- Plan and execute acceptance tests and report results
- Manage communication with super users and operations teams
- Participate in pilots and rollout of releases
Consultant
GSI Commerce Retail (HCL Tech)
- Coordinate with GSI clients to understand project details and requirements
- Provide daily and weekly status reports to business project manager
- Analyze business requirements and create use cases and test cases
- Track order status using JDA order management tool
- Update user manuals and guidelines
- Obtain client sign-off on various deliverables
Consultant
ESCALATE Retail System (HCL Tech)
- Review and update use cases
- Perform functional, integration and regression testing
- Participate in user acceptance tests with super users
- Sign off on features tested in each release
- Present feature usage to business stakeholders
- Create weekly test reports
Consultant
PayGene
- Understand the MSAS medical services automation system
- Write and execute use cases and test scenarios for all screens and new functions
- Determine verification points and data inputs
- Interact daily with clients and report progress
- Analyze test reports and enhance test methods
Consultant
Indfos
- Analyze HRTS system hierarchy and break into functional modules
- Implement features using scripts
- Provide user training on new features
- Report, fix and verify bugs
- Perform exhaustive testing according to standards
Summary
A result-oriented professional with 20 years of cross functional experience in Retail and IT, POS, payments, e-commerce, supply chain, logistics and fulfilment, including 10 years with IKEA and 7 years with H&M. Good working experience in large IT landscape and complex integrated environments for companies IKEA and H&M. Experienced in planning, preparation, execution, and coordination for end-to-end projects for complex IT solutions. Experienced in planning, management and coordination with business owners, product owners, business stakeholders’ developers, requirement analysts, architects, testers, country super users, IT vendors, 3PL’s, Carriers and stake holders. Experience in working with Agile and Scrum setup. Experience in creating training material and facilitating training to business users. Expertise and experience in retail applications, Global rollouts & online expansion for large business critical project and programs, supply chain, warehouse management system, 3PL, carriers, ERP solution, payment systems, POS, EFT, and e-commerce applications. Experience in working for new markets, expansion, franchises, pilots, rollout projects and onsite support for go-lives. Strong analytical & communication skills to interact with vendors, stakeholders, business users, SMEs & IT teams. Experience in arranging and leading workshops with involved parties for discussing the problems and solutions. Good knowledge of Retail business, digitalization, order management, supply chain processes, operations, retail IT landscape, rollouts, best practices, and tools like JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft teams, SharePoint, IBM Rational, HP ALM, MS project plan, Visio, teams. Experience in estimating efforts and analyzing risks for different projects and implementation of IT solutions. Experience in vendor management and coordination with country users for Global applications. Experience with working in international distributed and multicultural work environment. Have working experience with offshore-onsite outsourced resource model. Strong skills to troubleshoot and analyze complex problem. Flexibility to multi-task and meet deadlines.
Skills
Business Areas
- Retail
- Online Expansion
- Digitalization
- Order Management
- Erp
- Supply Chain
- Online Logistics
- 3pl
- Wms
- Payment Systems
- Eft
- Loyalty Cards
- E-commerce Systems
Tools Used
- Hp Service Manager
- Microsoft Teams
- Sharepoint
- Epic
- Alm
- Jira
- Ibm Tools (Clear Quest And Clear Case)
- Visual Studio
- Bmc Remedy
- Hp Service Desk
- Ms Office.
Languages
Education
Bachelor of Technology, computer science · computer science
Certifications & licenses
National Retail Foundation Certified
National Retail Foundation
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