Product Owner - Aftersales Retail Applications

About MBRDI

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI), headquartered in Bengaluru with a satellite office in Pune, is the largest R&D center for Mercedes-Benz Group AG outside of Germany. Its mission is to drive innovation and excellence in automotive engineering, digitalization, and sustainable mobility solutions.

Overview

As a Product Owner, you will bridge business strategy, product delivery, and validation. You will define the product vision, manage the backlog, and ensure delivered solutions meet business goals and user expectations. You will also play a hands-on role in business acceptance testing, ensuring each release aligns with functional, quality, and customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the product vision and roadmap in alignment with business strategy.
• Represent customer and stakeholder needs throughout the product lifecycle.
• Define, refine, and prioritize the team backlog based on business value and technical feasibility.
• Support PI Planning and educate Agile Release Train members on business priorities.
• Translate strategic goals into actionable user stories.
• Collaborate with business analysts, stakeholders, and end users to identify problems, needs, and opportunities.
• Build understanding of customer journeys and ensure the solution delivers tangible value.
• Develop, execute, and document Business Acceptance Test scenarios.
• Validate workflows, user journeys, and end-to-end processes.
• Identify and document defects, collaborate with development and QA teams, and verify fixes.
• Maintain test plans, acceptance criteria, and closure reports, and support UAT readiness.
• Use analytics and user behavior data to guide prioritization and product improvement.
• Define and track KPIs to measure product performance and impact.
• Participate in PI Planning, Refinement, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Foster built-in quality and continuous improvement within the team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 6–9 years of total experience combining Product Owner or Product Management and Business Acceptance Testing responsibilities.
• Ability to translate business needs into functional and testable requirements.
• Experience with Agile tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional global teams.
• Hands-on experience in Business Acceptance Testing, test management, defect tracking, and end-to-end validation.
• Understanding of functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test scenarios across Aftersales Retail Applications.
• Supply Chain, Logistics, or Automotive domain exposure is an advantage; German proficiency is a plus.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of an organization shaping the future of mobility.
• Work on cutting-edge technologies and global projects.
• Thrive in a collaborative, diverse, and inclusive environment.
• Access world-class infrastructure and continuous learning opportunities.

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals.