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Visa | Product Management Professional | FinTech | Accounts, Cards, Payments, Cross Border | Mobile, Web, APIs & Digital transformation.

About

Rakesh Kumar, Product Management Professional with 16+ yrs overall experience in Fintech,Cross border Payments, Cards, Accounts, Wallets & Mobile Products, building products that cater & impact the Millions of consumers, large-mid sized financial institution's growth and digitalization. Last 10+ years I have been leading product initiatives like “Market and customer experience research, product design, Defining Business, Product & Technical requirements, gathering Business requirements, analyzing requirements, improving business processes, implementation of Business\Client requirements and product solutions in the complex payment integrations and architectures.” Exposure to ISO 8583, ISO20022, Swift Payments, CBPR, Cards and Banking technologies & Systems, Expense management and Mobile Value added Products. Prior, worked as "Senior Engineer- Product Quality" ~ 6 years of Technical & Leading experiences in Software Product Quality with Expertise in both Manual/Automation of Web/Mobile application testing (selenium, appium), Functional Testing, API testing, Product Sustenance , Deployment/Integration, Production application support with different software development and Test models. Working exposure in Agile Startups, R&D Teams, Certification teams, New Business initiatives, Experience Customer Success and Customer support teams. Working in a High Paced environments with exposure to Cross border payments ,Mobile Banking, Payment Cards Control, Mobile Cloud Services, Mobile Device management (MDM), Mobile content management and associated Web & Server technologies. Passionate in conceptualizing New Products/Features, Solving Problems and innovate across experienced and non experienced domains and Evaluate, Document, Design Mock Up's and Discuss. Always Interested in discussing the new product/feature ideas with similar interest colleagues/Friends and product managers and get their views on them. Be the first to step and mentor team, Develop Best planning & practices and interested in Learning new things. Academically, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer science. MBA in Total Quality management. Interested in new challenges and some volunteer contributions, so feel free to contact me @ Rakeshskumar01@gmail.com or Please inbox me in LinkedIn

Location

Bengaluru

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Work experience

Senior Technical Product Manager at Visa, Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos, Bengaluru

Product Manager at Fiserv, Jan 2021 - Nov 2024 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Product Management and Business Analyst at Ondot Systems Inc, May 2018 - Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India

Senior Business System Analyst at Ondot Systems Inc, Sep 2015 - Apr 2022 · 6 yrs 8 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Currently working on Card Control solution , which empowers payment cards and accounts to be controlled from mobile application, set policy, turn off/on card instantly, sets transaction & merchant type controls, set geo location controls and get alerts instantly for transactions. Working as Senior Engineer, Leading new features for Quality delivery starting from Design, Planning, Implementation, Testing and Release of product to customer environments. Responsible for troubleshooting live customer issues in QA labs, Getting development fixes, Verifying defects and Provide Patches for the production environment.

Senior Product Engineer - R&D at Tangoe, Apr 2014 - Aug 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore, Worked on Mobile device management - MDM product team which is a comprehensive monitoring, management, and support software and service suite for mobile devices and applications in the enterprise offering complete control of the device lifecycle. "Multitenant - Hosted Controller" - took complete Quality ownership of the entire new product that was developed to host all existing customers under one platform and provide effective performance with minimum hardware setup. Setting up of windows servers, AD, LDAP, configuring DHCP and deploying the Tangoe product suite and troubleshoot issues of QA servers and fix them.

Product Certification - Studies and Certifications team at OnMobile, Feb 2012 - Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore, Working in Data products for data synchronization of Open mobile alliances [OMA] for mobile Phone Contacts and messaging. Working in Certification & Studies team to verify the functionality of the product at the early stages of the development and study-certify devices for the designed product.

Education

Master of Business Administration - MBA, Total Quality Management, Sikkim Manipal University - Distance Education

Engineer's degree, Compter Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University