Kiran Joshi
Senior Business Analyst/Product Manager
Pune
Summary
Product analyst with over 13+ years of experience
- Experience bridging product strategy and execution.
- Expert in managing product roadmaps, refining requirements, prioritizing backlogs, and orchestrating agile delivery across engineering, QA, design, and business teams.
- Proficient in backlog management, sprint delivery, and data-driven reporting.
- Experienced in partnering with Product Owners, Program Managers, and technical teams to translate business needs into executable plans.
- Demonstrated ability to streamline processes, improve sprint performance, and proactively mitigate risks. Highly effective communicator with a commitment to delivering value with every iteration.
- Recognized for integrity, a strong work ethic, and exceptional leadership capabilities.
- Renowned for adept problem-solving, enhancing customer satisfaction, and delivering significant operational improvements.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Language
Work History
Senior Business Analyst/Product Manager
Globant
01.2021 - Current
- Collaborate with Business teams and Product Owners to establish the product strategy and roadmap, prioritize product requirements, and organize and lead cross-functional workshops.
- Partner with UI/UX team to translate user needs, business goals, and product vision into intuitive, engaging designs that are aligned with product strategy, technical feasibility, and user expectations.
- Collaborate with Solution and Technical Leads to groom, refine, and validate user stories.
- Collaborate with the QA team to review test scenarios and lead product demo sessions with Product Owners to ensure alignment and acceptance.
- Managed stakeholder expectations through transparent communication and timely status updates, ensuring alignment between project deliverables and business objectives.
- Prioritize the backlog based on business value, dependencies, and team capacity.
- Tracking and interpreting product metrics to ensure the product is aligned with business goals.
- Coordinate UAT sessions, demos, and sign-offs with Product Owners and stakeholders.
- Identify opportunities for process improvements and efficiency gains within the organization and propose solutions.
- Conducted gap analyses to identify discrepancies between current and desired states, leading to actionable recommendations.
- Facilitated product innovation workshops to strengthen the innovation mindset across the product community.
- Mentor and guide business analysts, providing support and fostering their professional development.
Lead Business Analyst
Webonise Lab Pvt Ltd
10.2014 - 12.2020
- Conducted interviews with key business users to gather information on business processes and user requirements.
- Determine operational objectives by studying business functions, collecting data, and evaluating output requirements and formats.
- Synthesized business intelligence data to create reports and polished presentations, highlighting key findings and recommending improvements.
- Documented and analyzed business processes to ensure alignment with evolving business needs.
- Reviewed files, records, and documents to extract key data and inform development responses.
- Ensured successful project outcomes by proactively identifying potential risks and implementing mitigation plans.
- Collaborated with software development and testing teams to design and develop solutions that meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
Business Analyst
Mobien Technologies Pvt Ltd
03.2013 - 08.2014
- Analyzed and addressed client issues while developing innovative solutions to enhance the efficiency of products and services.
- Created specification documents and functional requirement specifications.
- Gathered and communicated requirements to design and technical teams.
- Delegated tasks and managed team activities.
- Developed Epics and user stories in JIRA, including use cases, scenarios, and acceptance criteria, while maintaining workflow.
- Designed functional solutions and conducted functional testing in demo/test environments.
- Led user acceptance testing (UAT) activities.
- Identified risks and resolved blockers to ensure smooth project progress.
Education
MBA - System (Information Technology)
University of Pune
Pune, India06.2012
BE - Electronics and Telecommunication
University of Pune
Pune, India05.2010
Skills
- Comprehensive functional analysis
- Backlog management
- Prototyping expertise
- Product planning and execution
- Scope Management and control
- UAT, Business testing & Defect triaging
- Proficient in Agile Framework (Scrum, Kanban)
- Tools: Jira, Confluence, Basecamp, ADO, Balsamiq, Figma
- Product lifecycle management
- Requirement Elicitation
- Efficient story point assessment
- Feature Prioritization
- Product Demos and Presentation
- Team Leadership and Management
- Business process mapping
- Mentorship and Training of Junior BAs
Timeline
Senior Business Analyst/Product Manager
Globant
01.2021 - Current
Lead Business Analyst
Webonise Lab Pvt Ltd
10.2014 - 12.2020
Business Analyst
Mobien Technologies Pvt Ltd
03.2013 - 08.2014
MBA - System (Information Technology)
University of Pune
BE - Electronics and Telecommunication
University of Pune