Sonal Agrawal
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Toptal member since July 13, 2021
Sonal is a product manager with 10+ years of experience in the IT industry. This includes serving as the product owner for multiple SaaS and IoT-based products for the past five years and QA testing and automation for eight years. As a product owner, her expertise includes defining the UI approach based on the vision, prioritization of the product backlog, user story creation, backlog grooming, and overseeing the development stages. She has delivered projects in insurance, telco, and education.
Expertise
- Agile
- Aha!
- Backlog Grooming
- Backlog Management
- Business Requirements
- Feature Prioritization
- Jira
- Sprint Planning
Work Experience
Product Owner
Fluke Corporation
- Served as the product owner for a SaaS and IoT application that sends data to mobile devices.
- Gathered requirements from stakeholders and maintained the requirements backlog in Aha! and Jira.
- Created and refined user stories for the engineering team and worked with senior executives to define the product roadmap.
- Collaborated with marketing, sales, and legal teams to develop a go-to-market plan, created release plans in coordination with the product manager, and worked with the UX team to get the wireframes ready for the development team.
- Led the design of a dashboard for a web, iOS, and Android application. Led the integration of a third-party AI/ML solution with my application.
- Co-designed a software application for a vibration condition monitoring solution.
- Leveraged Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) certification and knowledge of all Agile concepts to manage Scrum, drive sprint planning, participate in sprint reviews, manage sprint backlogs, and use Planning Poker to develop effort estimates.
- Conducted and participated in voice of the customer (VoC) sessions to gather feedback.
QA Lead
Wipro Technololgies
- Led the offshore automation teams at Optus, the second-largest telecommunications company in Australia, and Nationwide Insurance. Prepared automated test scenarios in the form of feature files.
- Used a Ruby Cucumber framework for web application automation and QTP 11 for regression testing. Performed a POC using Appium for mobile app testing.
- Tracked defects using Quality Center and took part in root cause analysis meetings. Ran and analyzed batch jobs to verify the stability of the automation suite, using Jenkins.
- Served as the primary supervisor and provided performance review comments during interim and annual appraisals.
- Conducted interviews to recruit new team members and trained them on the automation tools used by the team.
QA Engineer
Ness Technologies
- Tested a web-based application with activities for teachers, administrators, and students for Pearson SuccessNet.
- Analyzed the functional requirements from the functional specification document and raised ambiguities.
- Created test scenarios, test cases, and test data. Facilitated peer-to-peer review of test cases and knowledge transfer to new team members.
- Automated manual test cases, using Selenium, Java, and Cucumber.
- Tested web services, using Selenium, Ruby, Cucumber, and REST Client.
Software Engineer
Patni Computers (Acquired by Capgemini)
- Prepared master test documents for different releases for MetLife, a leading provider of insurance and other financial services.
- Analyzed business requirement documents and use cases and raised appropriate ambiguities.
- Prepared an understanding document and shared it with QA and business partners. Created test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
- Facilitated peer-to-peer review of test cases and knowledge transfer to new team members.
- Prepared data for daily status reports, which were shared with all management, QA, and business partners.
Project History
Integrating a Third-party Solution
Led the design and development for integrating a third-party AI/ML solution for machine diagnostics and designed a feature dashboard to display information.
Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Information Technology (PGDIT) in Information Technology
Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning - Pune, Maharashtra, India
Bachelor's Degree in Electronics
Ramdeobaba Kamla Nehru Engineering College - Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Slack, Zoom, Cucumber, Jira, InVision, Jenkins, Eclipse IDE, QTP, Balsamiq Mockups
Paradigms
Agile, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Test-driven Development (TDD), Scrum
Platforms
Mixpanel
Other
Business Requirements, Backlog Grooming, Backlog Management, Feature Prioritization, Sprint Planning, Aha!, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Excel, Functional Testing, System Testing, Test Cases, Product Ownership, User Stories, Regression Testing, Information Technology, Microsoft PowerPoint, Test Automation, Ruby, Selenium, Quality Control (QC), Appium, Java, Go-to-market Plans, Voice of the Customer (VoC), Planning Poker, Mobile App Testing, SaaS, Internet of Things (IoT), Technical Product Management, UX Prototyping, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Product Roadmaps, Wireframing, Dashboard Design, Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), REST, Business Analysis
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