Dixita Dave

Results-driven Product Owner with 7+ years of experience owning product vision, backlog, and delivery across Healthcare, E-Learning, Logistics, E-commerce, and Digital Advertising domains. Expert in Agile/Scrum, product backlog management, user story creation, feature prioritization, and stakeholder management. Proven success in translating business needs into scalable, user-centric solutions, improving sprint velocity by ~25%, and delivering measurable product value.

Skilled in roadmap planning, MVP definition, prototyping, and cross-functional team leadership.

Product Owner / Project Manager at Catalyst Partners (InStepHealth) (2024-02 – Present)

• Own end-to-end product vision and backlog, leading discovery sessions and stakeholder interviews to define high-value features.
• Authored 200+ user stories with clear acceptance criteria, improving development team clarity and reducing rework across sprints.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog using MoSCoW and RICE frameworks, ensuring sprint readiness and predictable, value-driven delivery.
• Drive Sprint Planning, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives, collaborating with developers, designers, and QA to deliver shippable increments.
• Designed interactive wireframes and prototypes in Adobe XD & Balsamiq, validating concepts with stakeholders and securing approval before development.
• Improved sprint throughput by ~25% by streamlining backlog refinement and introducing Definition-of-Ready and Definition-of-Done standards.
• Coordinate feature testing and UAT to verify alignment with user stories, ensuring zero critical defects in production releases.
• Act as primary product liaison between business and engineering, translating complex business workflows into clear, testable requirements.

Business Analyst at Assurecare Healthtech LLP (2023-07 – 2023-11)

• Performed in-depth domain analysis and competitor benchmarking for an LMS product, identifying 15+ feature gaps and defining the product functionality roadmap.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, design, QA) to align on product vision, scope, and delivery milestones.
• Authored detailed Software Requirement Specifications (SRS), capturing complex business rules, workflows, and edge cases for engineering teams.
• Developed UML diagrams (Use Case, Activity, Sequence) to visually communicate requirements and accelerate developer onboarding.
• Designed and presented high-fidelity prototypes to clients, achieving sign-off within the first review cycle for multiple modules.
• Reviewed test cases with QA to ensure full traceability between requirements and test coverage; conducted exploratory and manual testing on builds.

Business Analyst / Deputy Manager at Csquare Info Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (2021-10 – 2023-06)

• Led backlog refinement and Agile ceremonies (Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives) across multiple product streams.
• Created and maintained a well-groomed Product Backlog of user stories with prioritization, ensuring sprint goals delivered measurable business value.
• Built functional prototypes presented during Sprint Reviews, iterating on stakeholder feedback to refine solutions and accelerate approvals.
• Partnered with QA during Sprint Planning to ensure comprehensive test coverage and executed manual tests against user stories to identify defects early.
• Contributed to defining and refining Agile processes and Definition of Done through Sprint Retrospectives, improving team predictability.
• Managed change requests by analyzing impact, updating the Product Backlog, and proposing scope adjustments during Sprint Planning to accommodate shifting priorities.
• Mentored junior analysts on requirement-gathering best practices and Agile artifacts.

Business Analyst / UX Designer at Excellent Webworld Pvt. Ltd. (2019-05 – 2021-08)

• Translated product vision into project objectives, aligning individual deliverables with the broader business roadmap across 20+ client engagements.
• Coordinated with sales and engineering to scope projects, estimate effort, and prepare SOWs, directly supporting pre-sales and contract closure.
• Delivered BRDs, FRDs, and SOWs that met stakeholder expectations and enabled smooth, on-time project delivery.
• Bridged business and technical teams by explaining system architecture and technical trade-offs in clear, concise language to non-technical stakeholders.
• Conducted competitor analysis of websites and applications to identify best practices, informing product feature decisions.
• Created wireframes and UX designs using a Double-Diamond design process (Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver), producing high-quality UX solutions for app and web products.
• Monitored project progress and delivered regular status reports to stakeholders, proactively flagging risks and mitigation plans.

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science – V.V.P. Engineering College, Rajkot, Gujarat (2016 – 2019)

Diploma in Computer Science – A.V.P.T.I., Rajkot, Gujarat (2013 – 2016)