Product Owner

Overview:
**Job Title - Product Owner**

**Location - Madurai**

Aptean is changing. Our bespoke ERP solutions are transforming a huge range of global businesses, from food producers to manufacturers. In a world of generic enterprise software, we provide targeted solutions that bring together the very best technology and drive greater results. With over 3000 employees, 50 different products and a global client base, there’s no better time to advance your career at Aptean.

The Product Owner will ensure that the products meet the business requirements set out by the Product Manager.

Work as the Product Owner for your assigned Product, and work hand in hand with the development sprint team. Use Agile best practices to ensure that we are able to meet the development requirements of customers. Be available to give expert guidance to team members where needed.

The role may suit a Business Analyst or Software Implementation Consultant looking to step into a Product Ownership function

**About the role**

You will also:

- Lead in creation of technical and functional specifications, User Stories, and Acceptance Criteria in collaboration with Product Management and Engineering teams. Create and communicate requirements artifacts that translate business needs into executable stories
- Aid in and conduct user acceptance testing of the delivered User Stories
- Highly available to technical team during iteration (sprint) in order to answer real time questions and provide clarity to user stories
- Work closely with Product Management to create and maintain a product backlog according to business value and ROI
- Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team
- Manages and maintains efficient flow of just-in-time story elaboration activities (user story refinement) throughout team execution, typically maintaining 2 iterations (sprints) worth user stories available and ready in team backlog
- Prioritize and refine backlog based on Product Roadmap
- Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Provides demo back to the Product Management team at the end of each sprint, ensuring the sprint met expectations
- Strong knowledge of Agile development practices (especially Scrum), methodologies and tools
- Strong understanding of the different backgrounds, responsibilities and expectations of team. Ability to use that understanding to share information appropriately and with the correct people
- Collaborating with other product owners in managing dependencies, working in a SCALE Agile (SAFe) manner
- Review QA Test strategy and test cases to ensure they align to functional and non-functional requirements.
- Interface with documentation writers when needed

**About you**

You must also be

**Knowledge Management**
- Expand expertise within the product and industry
- Attend training sessions offered and use self-study tools; assist with peer training as needed
- Contribute to a customer-focused environment that encourages information sharing, team-based resolution activity, cross training and an absolute focus on resolving customer and internal hurdles as quickly and effectively as possible

**Communication**
- Ensure that all internal and external interactions are handled professionally and with the highest level of service, follow-through and consistently keep commitments
- Ensure a professional communication manner at all times

Take ownership of all issues, maintain constant communication with customers and management and work until issues are resolved

**Mentoring & Training**
- Act as a coach and mentor for more junior personnel.
- Recommend and develop training sessions for knowledge sharing within the team.

**Additional Duties**
- Recommend improvements in Product Management policies and procedures.
- Additional duties as assigned.

If you share our mindset, you can share in our success. To find out more about joining Aptean, get in touch today.

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