Bagavathy Balaji P

• Leading a cross-functional teams in both Onshore & Offshore model to implement a brand-new site for pioneered client of Ottawa; Canada.
• Facilitating ceremonies (daily stand up, Sprint planning, Show & Tell, Retrospective, Backlog Refinement) and ensured team and client realized the value of these ceremonies.
• Facilitating communication between project internal stakeholders and client stakeholders for project cohesion.
• Efficiently and effectively using Confluence for collaborating for project artifacts, status reporting, and risk management.
• Initiated and successfully implemented the test automation (selenium).
• Initiated and successfully implemented the Just-In-Time training program (Pluralsight) for team to Upskill.
• Initiated the DevOps implementation with the Client and turned it as an opportunity.
• Crafted Agile hybrid model in line with client stakeholder concurrence.
• Highlighted the importance of Usability with the Client and turned it as an opportunity for WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guideline) implementation.
• Accelerated progress by continually reviewing deliverables and project timelines.

• Led a diverse cross functional team and delivered a banking product that reduced 70% of manual work by automating the review and approval process for fraudulence verification, account creation, and Anti Money Laundering (AML).
• Initiated and successfully implemented the test automation (selenium) and reduced the 60% of regression test efforts.
• Owned the deployment activities such as running the audit checklist, review, CAB approval and client communication.
• Facilitated the technical discussion, architectural design discussion, Change control decision, Production deployment.
• Acted as a seamless communicator between the organization teams Infrastructure, Release management, PMO, Solution architect for project cohesion.
• Coached the project team on Agile and Scrum framework.
• Contributed to the organization on Agile transformation.

• Owned and delivered multiple projects with in the program for pioneered logistics, E-Learning, and automobile UK and US clients.
• Efficiently and effectively used JIRA for Planning, Execution, tracking and Reporting.
• Optimized the business requirement gathering as a workshop session rather than a BRD document.
• Implemented Scrum framework and educated the client on 2 weeks release by changing waterfall/Hot releases. Which benefited in terms of streamlined release, reduced conflicts, surprise,
• priority changes from Client. Resulted in customer satisfaction; 90%.
• Supported the organization in obtaining the CMMI initiatives and certifications.

Associate Project Manager

• In the Continued 10.5 years of service at Accenture, owned and delivered multiple projects under multiple programs in various domain such as Telecom, HealthCare & Ecommerce

Associate Development Manager (2015 - 2017)

• Owned and delivered the Salesforce project with a team of 18 .
• Collaborated with the client and prepared the realistic project milestones.
• Monitored the day-to-day work and ensured the tasks are completed as per the plan.
• Acted as a first of point of contact for the client and internal project stakeholders.
• Liaised with CCB and release manager for the production deployment.
• Created the production deployment change ticket on behalf of client service manager.
• Planned and executed the application knowledge transfer to production support team.
• Planned and executed the application handover from development to production support team.
• Provided direction and guidance to process improvements and established policies.

Team Lead (2010 - 2012)

• Owned and delivered multiple projects with in the program/account.
• Collaborated with project SME to define solution requirements.
• Designed and developed the robust application.
• Managed the Quality assurance (QA) activities.
• Efficiently logged, planned and fixed all the reported defects.
• Owned and Supported the UAT phase and ensured all the reported issues are resolved within the phase.
• Implemented multiple service improvements by developing the reusable components.
• Prepared the weekly project status reports.

Senior Software Engineer (2008 - 2010)

• As a senior developer worked closely with project SME and gathered the business requirement.
• Analyzed the business requirements and turned it to an application design.
• Created the detailed design documentation for the assigned module.
• Analyzed, designed and developed the database Schema & tables.
• Translated application business requirements into functional applications.
• Delivered the quality code by installing and running the PMD & SonarQube tool.
• Conducted peer review for the team members.

Software Engineer (2006 - 2007)

• Analyzed the business requirements and turned it to an application design.
• Created the detailed design documentation for the assigned module.
• Analyzed, designed and developed the database tables.
• Translated application business requirements into functional applications.

• Started the career as a java developer.
• Developed the application as per the technical design document.
• wrote unit test cases.
• Created the UML diagrams for the responsible modules.
• Performed the integration testing and bug fixed.