Deepika Sayyaparaju
Product Owner
Hyderabad
Summary
Experienced Business Analyst/Product Owner with 11+ years in product development and roadmap definition. Skilled in Agile methodologies, stakeholder management, and translating business needs into actionable user stories. Proven track record in backlog prioritization, fostering collaboration, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality products.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Product Owner
Wells Fargo
07.2023 - Current
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to successfully deliver comprehensive solutions for clients.
- Acting as the liaison between business stakeholders and the technical team to gather requirements and translate them into clear and actionable user stories with detailed acceptance criteria
- Connect with 26 different business partners to demo the new enhancements for product improvements
- Lead sprint planning, backlog grooming, and sprint reviews to ensure effective iteration planning and execution
- Partner with UI/UX teams to deliver intuitive and customer-focused designs
- Owning UAT validations and work on the test case creation, review, closure and sign off for the sprints
- Responsible for creating JIRA dashboards
- Working on MSTR reports for UI data flow validations
- Managed client relationships through regular check-ins and updates on project progress.
Functional lead /Product owner
Accenture
06.2021 - 07.2023
- Defined and prioritized product backlogs for healthcare applications including EHR systems, patient portals, and telehealth platforms, ensuring alignment with clinical workflows and compliance standards (HIPAA, HL7).
- Partnered with cross-functional teams—clinical staff, developers, QA, and UX designers—to gather requirements across UX, API, and database layers, translating them into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Led Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives, driving continuous delivery of healthcare IT solutions.
- Conducted stakeholder interviews and data analysis to identify pain points in patient scheduling, billing, and care coordination, resulting in improved system usability and reduced operational overhead.
- Facilitated user acceptance testing (UAT) with healthcare professionals to validate functionality and ensure seamless adoption of new features.
- Managed multiple parallel initiatives such as mobile health apps, analytics dashboards, and interoperability enhancements, balancing priorities and resources effectively.
- Triaged complex issues impacting clinical and administrative teams, coordinating cross-team resolution and minimizing disruption to patient care.
- Authored product documentation including release notes, feature guides, and compliance checklists to support training and regulatory audits.
- Championed data-driven decision-making by integrating reporting tools and dashboards that surfaced key metrics for patient outcomes and operational efficiency.
- Maintained a strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and healthcare regulations to guide product strategy and execution.
- Spearheaded web and mobile application development for healthcare platforms including patient portals, appointment scheduling, and telehealth services, ensuring seamless user experience and regulatory compliance.
- Translated complex healthcare workflows into clear product requirements and user stories, collaborating with clinical, administrative, and technical teams.
- Demonstrated deep understanding of healthcare domain standards such as HIPAA, HL7, and FHIR to guide product decisions and ensure data privacy.
Senior Quality execution consultant /Business analyst
Wells Fargo
06.2019 - 06.2021
- Driven the quality assurance team by writing testcases, execution, reporting and performing peer review of the testcases from team
- Automate the manual efforts utilising the Postman API tool to run the query for data creation and functionally verify the data, implemented it across 25 groups to maintain and organise the data
Senior Quality execution consultant
Wells Fargo
01.2017 - 05.2019
- Developed the test suite from scratch and built the functional testing workflow following the STLC
- Designed 400+ test cases and reported defects (150)
- Executed the testcases using tools like ALM and Jira for tracking the requirements
Senior Quality execution consultant/Business analyst
Tech Mahindra
01.2016 - 12.2016
- Worked for the end-to-end workflow enhancement and validation of (Purchase order-payment gate way-Shipment and order delivery) Order tracking process and return policy
- Developed and executed testcases for end-to-end workflow and performed the peer review in the team
- Performed UAT testing
- Supported the production release and provided signoff
Quality analyst
Tech Mahindra
09.2013 - 12.2015
- Written and executed the test suite of more than 220 attributes in the forms via ALM
- Took lead in analysis and implementation of the simplification of the forms on common platform and data reuse via new UI design with tech team
- Written test plan documents from the scratch and participate in demo with stakeholders for the requirement analysis and finalization
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Shri Vishnu Engineering College For Women
Bhimavaram, IndiaSkills
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Client requirements assessment
- Product life cycle management
- Team leadership & development
- Work Planning and Prioritization
- Quality assurance
- Decision-making
Certification
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Accomplishments
- Received Manager spotlight award from the Product leader for the consistent improvements in the product.
- Received Appreciation e-cards from team for the collaboration and support in bringing up the speed sharing knowledge and making the workflow easy with enhancements.
- Received Championship award for cross functional support between teams for UAT and business analysis.
Tools And Technology
JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, MSTR reports
Timeline
Product Owner
Wells Fargo
07.2023 - Current
Functional lead /Product owner
Accenture
06.2021 - 07.2023
Senior Quality execution consultant /Business analyst
Wells Fargo
06.2019 - 06.2021
Senior Quality execution consultant
Wells Fargo
01.2017 - 05.2019
Senior Quality execution consultant/Business analyst
Tech Mahindra
01.2016 - 12.2016
Quality analyst
Tech Mahindra
09.2013 - 12.2015
Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology
Shri Vishnu Engineering College For Women