HELLO, MY NAME IS

Arshad Bumbia

Product Owner / Product Manager

abumbia@outlook.com​
About Me

My experience consists of 14+ years of working in IT across different industries. I have worked in a variety of roles: Product Manager, Product Owner and Business Analyst.

I work with various stakeholders to deliver functional features

My experience

I have experience in writing down detailed business requirements (features) and user stories using JIRA for User Interface, Server, Database and Reporting applications. I have worked with various stakeholders such as Epic owners, Product Managers, Product Owners, Solution Architects and Scrum Masters in order to ensure end to end flow would not contain any design flaw. I have worked on UAT Test Plans and test scripts, and performed UAT after each release. I have experience in both AGILE and Waterfall methodologies.

My Experience

2024 – Present

Citi


Product Owner / Consulting Manager

Worked on adding / enhancing features for IBM OpenPages application using Scrum and SAFE Agile practices.
• Worked with product managers, product owners, scrum masters, developers and testers to implement front end (UI), backend changes, Gen AI and Machine Learning (AI/ML) enhancements to the system.
• Participated in Agile ceremonies (PI Planning, Backlog refinement, standup calls, demos, Sprint reviews, retrospective).
• Created and owned the product backlog, prioritizing features to maximize business value.
• Facilitated backlog decomposition sessions with technology teams to define requirements from a user perspective, including acceptance criteria.

2023 – 2024

PNC

Product Owner

•Worked on webportals, ensuring all the content, components, and screen logic worked as designed
•Worked with different stakeholders to define UI logic, ensuring all the security and authentication processes were in place for all the new screens
•Worked on migrating UI screens for the website
•Performed Fit and Finish testing for all the new content and screens added to the website each release
•Created defects in JIRA, and ensured they got completed in future releases
•Worked with team internally to come up with sprint schedule based on the team’s bandwidth

2019 – 2023

WellsFargo

Product Manager



• Worked on multiple web applications (including Pega BPM) and integrated them with multiple databases, reporting tool (Tableau) and email/mail notification systems for Data Privacy in order to support California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA and CPRA) (Similar to GPDR)
• Helped write Features and User Stories in JIRA for PEGA workflow web application front end (UX/UI), database, backend and email notification / PDF generation system.
• Worked with other Product Managers, Product Owners, Architects, Scrum Master, Release Train Engineer (RTE) and other stake holders for Product roadmap development and feature prioritization.
• Collaborated cross-functionally to establish data requirements and collection methods, ensuring the capture of high-quality data.
• Added new columns to SQL views and utilized them in Tableau.
• Helped move the applications from Waterfall to AGILE.
• Worked on Data dictionary, Taxonomy, data governance
• Worked on writing detailed acceptance criteria, UAT test plans and test scripts
• Created Screen Mock Ups and process flows (Visio) for various business requirements.
• Performed product demonstration, performed UAT and approved releases.
• Worked on SHRP activities, Governance Log and helped write Risks and Controls (RCSA)
• Participated in Business Continuity Process (BCP) exercises.
• Coached several team members in understanding the internal tools and processes.

2013 – 2018

IBM

Product Owner

•Prepared detailed functional requirements (FRDs) using Business Requirements (BRDs) for ordering system web applications for front-end and back-end logic for screens/servers, and to trigger notifications to clients.
•Managed multiple data analysis projects, delivering all on time and exceeding quality expectations.
•Created user stories in JIRA and RallyDev with detailed acceptance criteria.
•Collaborated with business clients and product owners to deliver satisfactory products. Internally worked with various IBM stakeholders in project planning to ensure that the project gets delivered on schedule.
•Resolved defects in SIT, UAT, BST, ORT and production related to issues with interface design.
•Reviewed test cases to ensure all scenarios got covered. Worked with SIT testers to resolve defects.
•Worked on LDM (Logical Data Modeling), UML, screen mockups and wireframes.
•Estimated project hours, ftps and function points for each project.
•Coach new team members in existing systems and functionality of applications.

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