Product Owner

Agensi Pekerjaan Penta Consultancy Sdn. Bhd; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in Malaysia seeks a Product Owner/Business Analyst with 3–5 years of experience. Responsibilities include managing development cycles, supporting testing activities, and collaborating with technical leads. Candidates should have strong analytical and communication skills along with a Bachelor's degree in IT or a related field. This position requires effective stakeholder management and the ability to work independently in fast-paced environments.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role.
• Strong experience in requirements assessment, validation, and clarification.
• Hands-on experience supporting testing and UAT activities.

Responsibilities

• Support testing and dry‑run activities by addressing requirement gaps.
• Manage the overall development cycle including coordination of development and testing.
• Collaborate with Technical Leads to resolve solution gaps.

Skills

Requirements assessment

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field

Job description

Responsibilities

• Support testing and dry‑run activities by addressing requirement gaps and clarifications.
• Review, validate, and accept or reject project requirements.
• Work with Technical Leads (TLs) to identify and resolve solution gaps.
• Support change request (CR) reviews and approvals when required.
• Participate in workshops and war‑room sessions to provide insights on platform behavior.
• Gather, groom, and refine requirements for approved CRs and new platform development.
• Support TLs in solution design and technical grooming by providing functional inputs.
• Manage the overall development cycle, including coordination of development and testing activities.
• Collaborate with TLs to break down development tasks effectively.
• Ensure development activities align with project timelines and milestones.
• Prepare and review test cases for in‑scope and out‑of‑scope UAT activities.
• Conduct testing when required, including final UI testing.
• Ensure dry runs and mock runs are executed smoothly.
• Support deployment planning and execution activities.
• Assist TLs with environment strategy and alignment across parallel and interim phases, and attend project briefings as required.

Job Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Minimum 3–5 years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role in project‑based / platform environments.
• Strong experience in requirements assessment, validation, and clarification, including accepting or rejecting project requirements.
• Proven experience supporting testing, dry runs, mock runs, and UAT activities, including testcase preparation and execution.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile / Waterfall project delivery, and change request (CR) management.
• Hands‑on experience in requirement gathering, grooming, and backlog management.
• Ability to work closely with Tech Leads and development teams on solutioning, technical grooming, and task breakdown.
• Experience managing development cycles, timelines, and dependencies across parallel workstreams.
• Strong knowledge of deployment planning and environment coordination (e.g. development, testing, UAT, production).
• Experience supporting environment strategy and alignment across multiple platforms and interim phases.
• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and decision‑making skills, especially in addressing requirement and solution gaps.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fully on‑site project team.
• Detail‑oriented, proactive, and able to work independently in a fast‑paced, delivery‑driven environment.