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Arundhathi  Karri

Arundhathi Karri

Program Manager
Hyderabad

Summary

Program Manager, who also has played versatile roles such as Advanced Scrum Master and Lead Business Analyst with 17 years of experience in executing full life-cycle application development & maintenance projects. Proven track record of successfully leading teams in developing high-quality software solutions on time and within budget. Skilled in multiple Agile methodologies, stakeholder management and sprint planning. Highly organized in managing complex projects with multiple deadlines.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
Certification
3
3

Languages

Work History

Program Manager

LTIMindtree
03.2023 - Current
  • 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

Scrum Master

CGI
12.2019 - 03.2023
  • 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.

Scrum Master

CGI
03.2016 - 12.2019
  • 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.

Lead Business Analyst

CGI
03.2012 - 03.2016
  • 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.

Requirements Engineer

AkzoNobel Car Refinishing Services Limited
12.2009 - 06.2010

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.

Software Developer

Satyam Computer Services Limited
08.2006 - 12.2009
  • 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.


Education

High School Diploma -

Little Angels School
Visakhapatnam

Bachelor's - Information Technology

Raghu Engineering College
Visakhapatnam

Skills

  • Project Management
  • Risk mitigation planning
  • Vendor Management
  • Documentation Management
  • Cross functional Collaboration
  • People Management

MS office applications

Customer service

Stakeholder management

Accomplishments

  • Received multiple awards like PEGASUS, for functional excellence
  • Consistent star performer in the career
  • Got onsite opportunity for my contribution and work in Oil and Gas industry
  • H1 B - Petition In Progress

Certification

  • Advanced Scrum Master

  • Scrum Master

  • Business Analst

Languages

  • English

  • Hindi

  • Telugu

Interests

Playing Badminton

Swimming

Gym workout

Timeline

Program Manager

LTIMindtree
03.2023 - Current

Scrum Master

CGI
12.2019 - 03.2023

Scrum Master

CGI
03.2016 - 12.2019

Lead Business Analyst

CGI
03.2012 - 03.2016

Requirements Engineer

AkzoNobel Car Refinishing Services Limited
12.2009 - 06.2010

Software Developer

Satyam Computer Services Limited
08.2006 - 12.2009

Bachelor's - Information Technology

Raghu Engineering College

High School Diploma -

Little Angels School
Arundhathi KarriProgram Manager