Parag Omanwar

Technical Product Manager with 17+ years in software — 9 of them at Mastercard, owning a cross-border payments API platform at global scale. Earned an internal promotion from QA Lead to PM by consistently delivering product impact beyond the brief. Ships 99.9%+ SLA-compliant products, commands cross-functional squads from roadmap to release, and converts complex technical constraints into revenue-generating features. Equally at home writing a PRD, querying a database, or presenting to a VP.

Technical Product Manager at Mastercard XBS Services Pvt. Ltd (2016-02 – 2025-03)

End-to-end product ownership of a payments directory API for global financial institutions — strategy, PRDs, OKRs, sprint governance, and stakeholder alignment across 2 squads (12 engineers).

• Led onboarding platform overhaul: user journey mapping in Figma, 6 new API endpoint specs, UAT coordination across 3 teams — delivered 40% reduction in merchant onboarding cycle time.
• Maintained a 50+ story backlog in Aha! and JIRA with consistent 2-sprint forward readiness; bi-weekly grooming cadence cut planning overhead by 20%.
• Enforced data integrity across 4 major production releases using complex SQL (Oracle, MongoDB, SSMS) — zero live data failures on any release.
• Converted Legal and Compliance mandates into sprint-ready user stories; shipped 3 compliance features on schedule, zero post-release defects.
• Ran monthly VP-level roadmap reviews — proactive risk flagging secured expedited budget approvals for 2 platform initiatives.
• Mentored 4 QA engineers into product roles; created onboarding playbooks that cut new-hire ramp-up from 6 weeks to 3.

Senior QA Engineer at Courion Corporation (2015-06 – 2016-02)

QA lead across 3 quarterly releases of an enterprise IAM product — validated RBAC provisioning to security and compliance standards across 200+ test cases.

• Reduced escaped defects by 30% in 2 sprints by overhauling the regression and SOAP API test suite in MTM and SoapUI.

QA / Test Specialist at Infinite Computer Solutions (2007-01 – 2015-12)

BI/ETL, telecom billing, and CMS testing for Idea Cellular, Vodafone, MultiChoice, and Dell.

QA / Test Specialist at Nihilent Technologies (2007-01 – 2015-12)

BI/ETL, telecom billing, and CMS testing for Idea Cellular, Vodafone, MultiChoice, and Dell.

QA / Test Specialist at Synova / IBM (2007-01 – 2015-12)

BI/ETL, telecom billing, and CMS testing for Idea Cellular, Vodafone, MultiChoice, and Dell.

QA / Test Specialist at eClerx (2007-01 – 2015-12)

BI/ETL, telecom billing, and CMS testing for Idea Cellular, Vodafone, MultiChoice, and Dell.

Master of Computer Applications in Computer Applications – JSPM's RSCOE College (2006-01)

Bachelor of Science in Electronics – S P College (2003-01)