Seema Menon
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Toptal member since June 16, 2022
Seema has 15+ years of experience in the fintech industry as a product owner, business analyst, and quality assurance specialist in India, London, and Hong Kong. Seema has handled new business, regulatory/compliance, retiring legacy systems, re-engineering, and cost-cutting projects. She has primarily worked on Java/C++ technologies. Seema has a strong passion for finance and is open to other domains and technologies. Seema is currently pursuing a part-time master's degree in behavioral science.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Agile Project Management
- Business Acceptance Testing
- Jira
- Product Requirements Documentation (PRD)
- Requirements
- SQL
- Wireframing
Work Experience
Product Owner | Business Analyst
Berry Appleman & Leiden - Main
- Worked on product strategy and roadmap development.
- Conducted product enhancement workshops within the team and with stakeholders.
- Acted as scrum master and product owner, managing Sprint processes and delivery.
- Gathered requirements and performed analysis, story writing and backlog maintenance in Jira.
Product Owner | Business Analyst
Berry Appleman & Leiden - Main
- Gathered requirements and performed analysis, story writing, and backlog maintenance in Jira.
- Acted as scrum master and product owner, managing Sprint processes and delivery.
- Conducted product enhancement workshops within the team and with users.
Product Owner | Business Analyst | Scrum Master
Deutsche Bank
- Managed users from the vendor system to the in-house product lifecycle system. Directed the migration of product lifecycle management from expiry, payments, over-the-counter reporting, corporate actions, and dividend fixings.
- Strategized as a part of the organization's effort to reduce cost and optimize the operations processes to enable cost savings on the system.
- Handled the business analyst, quality analyst, and user acceptance testing effort to enable the unwinding of derivative positions when the business shut down.
- Analyzed the impact of adding new functionalities and improvements to the existing system. Improving the wireframing, process flow chart, and development of unified modeling language diagrams.
- Ran sprints in the capacity of product owner and scrum master.
- Conducted application roadmap and training workshops with users.
User Acceptance Testing Manager | Product Manager
Daiwa Securities Hong Kong
- Reported the program delivery and test progress, risks, red, amber, and green status to the project steering committee.
- Created user acceptance testing, parallel run, and product delivery strategy with various departments like operations, finance, compliance, risk, front office, middle office, and IT.
- Coordinated user acceptance testing environment management, user acceptance testing execution, and issue management between users, IT, and external vendor teams.
- Defined and assessed entry and exit criteria for each of the test phases in the critical project path and updated the project steering committee.
User Acceptance Testing Manager | Business Analyst
HSBC Hong Kong
- Analyzed requirements and change analysis for front-office systems, represented business in the requirement analysis meeting held between IT teams.
- Created delivery and test strategy for over-the-counter Asia regulatory reporting.
- Arranged documentation, information, and training for businesses on new tools and systems.
- Coordinated user acceptance testing management and user acceptance testing execution of finance office, regulatory, and IT teams.
Business Analyst | Quality Analyst
Nomura International Hong Kong
- Analyzed and gathered requirements and prioritization from the front office, middle office, finance, and sales users for derivatives risk management products.
- Prepared business requirement documents, flow charts, other documentation, and training for team members and users when required.
- Planned and coordinated user acceptance testing between various users and teams, tracking and closure of issues found before the post went live.
- Conducted quality assurance testing for the derivatives risk management application.
Quality Analyst
Merrill Lynch Technology Services India
- Conducted functional testing of Java-based applications in the equities area used for algorithmic trading of equities in the Asia-Pacific markets.
- Conducted system integration testing of front and middle office systems.
- Performed requirements analysis and use case preparation.
Programmer Analyst
Infosys
- Organized functional testing and user acceptance of Java applications in the equities department. Used data to price derivatives, trade, quote products, and market-making activities.
- Conducted functional testing of mainframe applications developed within resource breakdown structure for offset banking.
- Managed application design maintenance based on requirement changes and impact analysis of enhancements planned on the existing system.
Project History
Product Lifecycle System Used by FX, Equity, Impulse Response, and Derivatives Operations
Coordinated the application's product management, release, and user training efforts from inception to going live.
APAC Dodd Frank Implementation for Over-the-counter Regulatory Reporting
Led the business analysis and user acceptance testing effort to implement over-the-counter regulatory reporting for HSBC and Dodd-Frank Act compliance for our Asia-Pacific markets and clients.
Application for Handling Middle Office and Back Office Business Functions
Managed program-level planning, testing, and delivery.
Education
Master's Degree in Behavioral Science
Christ University - India
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Calicut University - Kerala,India
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Jira, HP Quality Center (QC), Confluence, Visio, Microsoft Project, QTP, Toad, TestDirector, Figma
Paradigms
Agile, Requirements Analysis, Acceptance Testing, Functional Analysis, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Agile Product Management, Agile Business Analysis, Testing, Kanban, Design Thinking
Platforms
SharePoint, Unix
Industry Expertise
Financial Services
Other
SQL, Derivatives, Requirements, Product Owner, Documentation, User Stories, Flow Diagrams, Stakeholder Interviews, Business Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Business Requirements, Quality Assurance (QA), Manual QA, Fintech, IT Business Analysis, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Requirements & Specifications, User Requirements, Scrum Master, Data Migration, Backlog Grooming, Business Process Analysis, Product Ownership, Product Requirements Documentation (PRD), Business Acceptance Testing, Microsoft PowerPoint, Business to Business (B2B), Data Analysis, Analysis, Consulting, Project Management, Implementation, Discovery, Technical Writing, Product Management, Workflow, Integration, API Integration, Analytical Thinking, Creative Solutions, Custom Solutions, Macros, Excel VBA, Quality Management, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Development (CD), Python 2, Corporate Actions, Gloss, Regulatory Reporting, Perl, Oracle, System Requirements, Design Requirements, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Algorithmic Trading, Trade Finance, COBOL, Mainframe Systems, Java, Risk Management, Wireframing, User Experience (UX), Sprints, Jama, Clarity PPM, Murex, Backlog Management, Feature Prioritization, Feature Planning, Feature Backlog Prioritization, Technical Requirements, Technical Documentation, Feature Roadmaps, Feature Analysis, Product Roadmaps, Product Design, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, Leadership, Databases, UXM, Organizational Leadership, Cognitive Psychology, Wellness, Psychology, UX Design, UI Design, Education, JSON API, API Testing, System Architecture, User Journeys, Software as a Service (SaaS), Technical Business Analysis
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