Product Owner

Title : Product Owner Location: Phoenix, AZ Duration: long term Contract Required Skills/Experience • Experience as Product Owner executing projects with a distributed team structure • Experience playing the Product Owner role for at least 3 years, experience in the insurance Domain will be added advantage • Certified Product Owner (CPO certification - CSM) Preferred • Experience in any technical skills like AWS, java, bigdata, tableau is must. • Articulates, elicits and inspires others to execute and support a compelling product vision and strategy • Clearly draws and articulates the boundaries of that vision while providing enough latitude for an Agile team to creatively solve problems • Determines and articulates Minimum Viable Product; that is, identifies those portions of an overall vision that are minimally necessary to achieve customer objectives • Diligently having managed Requirements & Releases using Scrum principles, practices, and theory with a distributed team structure • Extensive experience requirement gathering & analysis to ensure consistency & comprehensiveness of the requirements. Familiar and comfortable in dealing with evolving requirements and frequent changes that naturally follows from this incremental approach • Proven track record in performing functional decomposition of large system and analysis of various use-case flows • Have extensive experience interacting with clients and end-users • Ability to develop test scenarios and cases for various types of functional tests: unit tests, integration tests, system tests & regression tests • Have sufficient experience performing functional (UI driven) tests • Basic knowledge of RDBMS & SQL will be a big plus • Experience working for ISV in product development role • Excellent written and verbal skills. Should be able to articulate business functionality, suggestions for improvements and functional queries in clear and concise manner • Very high commitment level • Should be culturally aligned to Agile way of working, self-starter, easily asks questions, good team player, willingness to do what it takes including documentation, data entry etc. • Translate High-level requirements from Product backlog to sufficiently detailed functional & feature requirements that developers can take for implementation • Work very closely with SME & Business stakeholders to define the Epics & Stories in a product backlog • Constructs and communicates an Agile team's product release plan to stakeholders • Collaborates with other Product Owners to manage inter-team dependencies • Work very closely with Scrum master's to define & review feature list for various product • Work very closely with Scrum master's & the Scrum Team so that they can elaborate Epics/Stories into sub-tasks as atomic units for development • Serves as the primary liaison between the Business/Sponsors and Scrum Masters (SCRUM Team) • Work with SCRUM champion and Scrum Masters in prioritizing product backlog • Participate in defining & reviewing functional & system test scenarios & test cases • Participate in functional tests • Plans for and facilitates planning sessions • Elicits customer and stakeholder feedback on the quality and accuracy of delivered product features Preferred Skills/Experience • Demonstrated ability to drive the execution of a vision • Understanding of insurance products • Proven negotiation, influence and collaboration skills • Proven ability in the area of creative facilitation and encouragement of innovation • Encourages and demonstrates comfort with change, ambiguity, debate, conflict, experimentation, and informed risk taking • Proven public speaking skills • Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with both technical and business associates • Proven ability to make or facilitate effective decisions as they relate to an Agile team's product delivery • Ability to make a positive contribution as demonstrated by learning new skills and making suggestions for process/procedure improvement Ability to work with others in a collaborative team environment Best regards, Vijay Singh Avani | Avani Technology Solutions Inc. Direct Number: 5855327096 | Ext: 845.473.1137 X 8096 Email: vijay.savanitechsolutions.com | Website: www.avanitechsolutions.com Address: Avani Business Park, 687 Lee Road Suite 208, Rochester, NY 14606 USA