Arundhathi Karri

• Leading & supervising a team of 10-12 personnel; participating in business requirements validation & verification ensuring that all projects are consistent with strategic architecture.
• Forward focused professional with expertise in concepts of end-to-end project planning implementation from scope management to effort estimation, risk analysis to quality management in line with international guidelines and norms using Waterfall and Agile Methodologies.
• Collaborating with onsite Development Offices and coordinating teams at offshore development center
• Ensuring timely completion & delivery of projects to clients and extending production support of multiple applications; identifying & implementing solutions that effectively resolve problems/issues and provide improvement.
• Handled multiple client calls and was responsible for generating reports and other deliverables at the end of every sprint.
• Supporting Production Incidents and User story requirements. Working closely with Product Owners to ensure understanding of user stories and keeping the backlog groomed.
• Monitoring the Sprint Burndown, conducting daily standup's, and encouraging open communication in the team.
• Educating team members in an Agile methodology and use of Buganizer for tracking projects & tasks
• Creating & managing estimates, project plans, project schedules, resource allocation to ensure that targets are reached.
• Daily ticket hygiene in buganizer

• Organizing the whole team to drive the team towards 100% agile.
• Implemented multiple management techniques while handling projects to build a good rapport with the whole team.
• Collaborating with onsite Development Offices and coordinating teams at offshore development center
• Ensuring timely completion & delivery of projects to clients and extending production support of multiple applications; identifying & implementing solutions that effectively resolve problems/issues and provide improvement.
• Handled multiple client calls and was responsible for generating reports and other deliverables at the end of every sprint.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies - Planning, Grooming, Daily Stand-up, Review & Retrospective Meetings in each Sprints
• Prioritizing the issues & requirements to include them in a release.
• Experienced in PI Planning, SOS
• Facilitating User Acceptance Test (UAT) sessions and participating with the cross-functional teams to close end-to-end testing.
• Generating Weekly Status Reports and sharing across with the client; attending meetings with the client for deliverables planning
• Also automated a module for testing using Robotic Process Automation in the application.

• Review Functional Specifications prepared by US and Australian teams
• Give a walkthrough of the assigned functionality to the developer and testing group
• Prepare the System Test Cases for the assigned functionality
• Contributing in weekly Sprint demos to understand the functionality being delivered as part of that sprint March 2012 - March 2016 Lead Business Analyst CGI Hyderabad, Telangana
• Conducting Sprint Retrospectives and mentoring other team members in planning & design
• Generating Weekly Status Reports and sharing across with the client; attending meetings with client for deliverables planning
• Perform functional testing for the developed modules.
• Prepared Functional Specification. This involved interacting with various stakeholders including the UX developer and data modeler.
• Communicate the requirements and act as a bridge between the developer and QA teams offshore.
• Perform functional testing if the product is working as per the requirements described to developer and QA teams.
• Performed Database testing in SQL Developer whenever needed.
• Well acquainted with the IBM Rational Clear Quest and Clear Case.

• Gathering requirements from Product Owner
• Prepared Functional Specification. This involved interacting with various stakeholders including the UX developer and data modeler.
• Get the FS approved from the Product Owner
• Communicate the requirements and act as a bridge between the product owner, developer and QA teams.
• Perform functional testing if the product is working as per the requirements described to developer and QA teams.
• Performed Database testing in SQL Developer.
• Received multiple appreciations from the onsite team
• Experienced in drawing Use Case diagrams, Flow charts in Visio 2013
• Well acquainted with Agile Process using the JIRA tool.

The project’s goal is to develop a tool that minimizes the effort of color matchers in the lab who are aimed to develop a color that matches’ with colours of various cars’ in car refinishing industry.

• Gather requirements from Color Matchers and document functional specification.
• Directly communicate with color matchers and convey the same to software development team.
• Review functional specifications and test the developed functionality thoroughly.
• Deploy the changes to the production environment.
• Verify if the deployed changes are matching with the requirement of color matchers on field.

• Participated through all the events of the software development life cycle.
• Understand thoroughly functional specification and prepare Technical design
• Develop the desired module and complete sanity testing.