Dhana Preetha Gajendran-Product Owner and Functional Tester
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Product Owner
OEConnection India
- Led backlog prioritization for a $90M automotive SaaS product, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer satisfaction.
- Led customer-facing product enhancements, leveraging data-driven insights and operational analytics to improve fulfillment performance, optimize logistics processes, and deliver measurable customer value.
- Delivered measurable business impact by improving product fill rate by 10–15% through optimized order fulfillment strategies.
- Led a 12-member cross-functional team in Agile/Scrum environments to deliver high-quality product increments on time.
- Collaborated with global stakeholders, engineering teams, and business partners across US & EU environments
- Expanded OEM partner ecosystem by onboarding from 8 to 14 partners (+75%), increasing integration and platform reach.
- Delivered a feature enabling size-restricted part sales, contributing to 7.1% revenue growth and reducing OEM costs by approximately $2.68M annually.
- Managed API integrations and data interfaces by gathering requirements, defining data mappings.
- Defined and tracked OKRs focused on growth, reliability, operational efficiency, and delivery performance.
- Utilized analysis techniques to derive actionable insights from trend analysis using large datasets and support strategic decision-making.
- Conducted UAT, A/B testing, regression testing, and usability validation to ensure quality delivery and improved user experience.
Senior QA Analyst
OEConnection India
- Acted as Proxy Product Owner for assigned features.
- Effort Estimation: Estimated testing efforts and managed team tasks efficiently.
- Test Planning: Created test plans with feature specifications and strategies.
- Partnered with business stakeholders to align product delivery with strategic business objectives.
- Translated business requirements into user stories & acceptance criteria.
- Defect Management: Logged and tracked defects for timely resolution.
- Performed smoke, Functional, Regression, A/B testing & usability tests.
- Documentation: Prepared test reports and audited defects and test cases.
- Knowledge Sharing: Onboarded and Trained team members and onboarded new hires.
Associate Quality Services
Amazon India
- Gained exposure to e-commerce platform operations and marketplace ecosystem through Amazon's global address and location experience projects.
- Validated functionality for Android, Windows & iOS platforms.
- Contributed to testing map rendering and location-based experiences using HERE Maps within Amazon applications, ensuring accurate navigation, geolocation, and address visualization across multiple platforms.
- Supported address experience projects for various regions.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Automotive, and Retail.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Operations, Quality Assurance, Business Intelligence, Product Development, and Project Management.
Summary
Results-driven Product Owner and Functional Tester with 7 years of experience delivering digital products, managing cross-functional teams, and driving Agile project execution. Skilled in requirements gathering, stakeholder management, backlog prioritization, process optimization, and Scrum delivery. Experienced in translating business needs into actionable solutions, improving customer experiences, and ensuring successful product outcomes.
Skills
- End-To-End Product Ownership & Saas Implementation
- Business Process Analysis
- Structured Requirement Elicitation
- Customer Journey Story Mapping
- Moscow & Rice Prioritisation
- Oem Stakeholder Alignment
- Data-Driven Process Optimisation
- Kpi & Okr Reporting
- Uat & A/B Testing
- Proactive Risk Mitigation
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Education
Jaya Engineering College
Bachelors of Engineering · Computer Science Engineering · India · 7.49
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Dhana is based in Berlin, Germany.
Dhana speaks the following languages: English (Advanced), German (Elementary).
Dhana has at least 7 years of experience. During this time, Dhana has worked in at least 3 different roles and for 2 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 3 months. Note that Dhana may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Dhana would be well-suited for roles such as: Product Owner, Senior QA Analyst, Associate Quality Services.
Dhana's most recent position is Product Owner at OEConnection India.
In recent years, Dhana has worked for OEConnection India and Amazon India.
Dhana is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Automotive, and Retail.
Dhana is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Quality Assurance. Dhana also has some experience in Business Intelligence, Product Development, and Project Management.
Dhana has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Automotive, and Retail.
Dhana has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Operations, and Quality Assurance.
Dhana holds a Bachelor in Computer Science Engineering from Jaya Engineering College.
Dhana has 3 certificates. These include: AI for Agile Professionals, Certified CSPO, and Business Analyst.
Dhana will be available full-time from September 2026.
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