XIMB
Information Systems + Marketing
- Product, systems, brand, and go-to-market thinking
- Case competitions, analytics work, and strategic frameworks
- Building the operating language of modern product teams
Product building in progress
HARSH KUMAR BURNWAL
MBA Student | Former QA Engineer | Aspiring Product Manager
Breaking products taught me how to build better ones.
About me
Built by pressure, Calibrated by products.
I started by breaking products for a living: load, scale, edge cases, response times, the quiet places where user trust collapses. That QA background trained me to see systems honestly.
Now, through an MBA focused on Information Systems and Marketing, I am translating that engineering discipline into product judgment: market clarity, user empathy, business models, and crisp execution.
01
QA Engineer
Learned reliability, performance, and the cost of weak product decisions.
02
MBA Student
Layering strategy, marketing, systems thinking, and business context.
03
Future PM
Building toward products that are useful, defensible, and loved under stress.
Education
Strategy stack, technical roots.
SRM Chennai
Computer Science Engineering
- Software foundations, systems logic, and engineering discipline
- Early exposure to product quality and technical tradeoffs
- Technical base for PM conversations with engineering teams
Work experience
Impact measured in trust, scale, and signal.
2.2 YearsQA Engineering at Cognizant
1National Case Competition Finalist
2x / WeekPublishing on LinkedIn & Medium
Cognizant
QA Engineer - Performance, Load, Scalability
Worked where product promises meet real-world pressure. Focused on performance behavior, bottleneck discovery, scalability confidence, and the invisible reliability layer users only notice when it fails.
Startup Odisha
Internship - Startup ecosystem exposure
Observed how early-stage teams sharpen markets, evaluate traction, communicate value, and make decisions when resources are tight and ambiguity is high.
Projects
Work that reads products like systems.
Loan Chatbot
Conversational loan-assistance experience designed to answer borrower queries, explain eligibility, and make loan discovery feel simpler and more guided.
GitHub
Live coming soon
AI Gym Trainer Web
Fitness web concept using AI-assisted training flows to support guided workouts, form awareness, and a more personalized exercise experience.
GitHub
Live coming soon
Otaku Anime Website
Anime discovery and content-browsing site focused on fandom-friendly navigation, visual discovery, and an entertainment-first user experience.
Live Site
GitHub coming soon
Music Mapping Algorithm
Proposed recommendation approach mapping human emotions to music using face detection, feature extraction, emotion recognition, and ML-led matching.
GitHub
Live coming soon
Articles / thought leadership
Thinking in public, one sharp teardown at a time.
Publishing every Tuesday and Thursday - PM frameworks and mental models on Tuesdays, product teardowns and root cause analyses on Thursdays.
Skills
A hybrid stack for product decisions.
Product Thinking
QA / Performance Testing
Strategy
Fintech Analysis
Communication
JTBDPrioritizationScalabilityGTM
AnalyticsUX FrictionMarket Sizing
Interests
High-performance habits, sharp culture signals.
FitnessTransformation mindset
Online GamingComposure under pressure
AnimeLong arcs, loyalty, ambition
SportsSystems, momentum, execution