Animesh Majhi

• Strategic Leadership: Led the product vision for modernizing multiple legacy applications within HMRC Borders & Trade services, coordinating delivery across multiple supplier teams. Drove digital transformation through service optimization, workflow redesign, and modern platform adoption.
• Technical Translation: Authored detailed technical specifications for API integrations and played a key role in decommissioning the legacy VAT mainframe, significantly reducing HMRC's technical debt. Supported architectural decision-making, solution reviews, and data contract definitions.
• Previously working experience as Product Owner, maintained the JIRA board, prioritized backlog items, and aligned sprint goals with business outcomes while working closely with Business SMEs, Scrum Master, and Technical Leads.
• Delivered VAT mainframe decommissioning on time, generating major operational savings and receiving appreciation from HMRC leadership.
• Contributed in modernization of HMRC digital benefit forms and supported a major Pension Scheme migration, enabling thousands of scheme transitions to a modern online platform.
• Introduced structured discovery workshops that reduced requirement churn by 30%.
• Acted as the central conduit between business, architecture, and engineering, ensuring end-to-end alignment from discovery to release.
• Supported the implementation of Product Ways of Working to enhance team alignment, delivery efficiency, and value-driven outcomes.
• Backlog Management: Own the end-to-end grooming process, ensuring 100% "Ready for Dev" status for 3 consecutive sprints ahead of schedule.

Project: Business Banking – Onboarding Project

• Managed a 12-member QA team delivering Business Banking Onboarding services, overseeing test planning, execution, defect governance, and risk management.
• Mitigated potential risks by carrying out thorough risk assessments regularly.
• Conducted Entry/Exit criteria reviews, managed defect triage sessions, and published consolidated Test Summary Reports.
• Introduced automated UAT scripts, reducing the testing cycle by two weeks per release.
• Ensured readiness for business sign-off and coordinated UAT across cross-functional teams.
• Implemented and maintained complaints and compliance action tracker to improve production standards.

Project: Enterprise Client Data Capture

• Requirement Engineering: Led discovery workshops to elicit and refine functional and non-functional requirements for the Enterprise Client Data Capture (ECDC) platform, ensuring strong stakeholder alignment throughout the requirement engineering process.
• Owned the product roadmap to align with JPMC's strategic outcomes, translating high-level objectives into actionable quarterly plans while defining and communicating a clear product vision across cross-functional teams to ensure coherence and shared ownership of delivery milestones.
• Performed role of a Technical Business Analyst, starting from requirement gathering with direct Business User and providing solutions for the users of ECDC to achieve their business goals.
• Performing technical systems analysis and working closely with architects and solution designers. Configured and scheduled Jobs for the automated scripts in Jenkins.
• Improved data quality workflows, reducing manual intervention by 25%.
• Worked with upstream/downstream systems to rationalize client data dependencies.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to implement operational improvements and business strategies.

Project : Suitability Regulatory Checks

• Requirement Engineering: Elicitation and documentation of requirements, using User Stories. End to end Requirement Management and maintenance of tractability for both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Leading a 10 QAs team within the scrum, assigning stories and tracking them to closure.
• Served as coordinator for an onsite–offshore support model, ensuring smooth collaboration and efficient delivery across distributed teams.
• Led cross-functional teams, increasing collaboration and efficiency.
• Enhanced system efficiency with refined requirement analysis process.
• Facilitated sprint reviews gathering valuable feedback from stakeholders.
• Ensured compliance with regulatory requirements via meticulous documentation practices.
• Mentored junior analysts on Agile practices to boost their productivity levels.
• Conducted regular product backlog grooming to keep it relevant and up-to-date.
• Created visual models for clearer understanding of complex business processes.

Project: American Bureau of Shipping [ABS]

• End to End testing which comprise of Test scenario Design, Test script Design and Execution of test scripts have been in direct contact with business User/client to understand the design requirement.
• Creating test plans, test strategy, estimation sheets, traceability matrix and daily status reports.
• Creation of regression suite , Writing scripts, Execution in QTP and Maintenance of the existing scripts and necessary updation.
• CR management, test case writing, test case execution, defect management and reporting in ALM and JIRA.
• Creation of feature files in gherkins language.
• Scripting automation of Web-UI using Selenium WebDriver.
• Achieved increased efficiency with streamlined quality control processes.