KALPANA SINGARARAJU
Coimbatore,TN
Summary
Dedicated Agile Facilitator with over 14 years of experience, including more than 6 years as a certified Scrum Master. Expertise in guiding teams through complex Agile transformations, enhancing productivity through optimized workflows, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-value solutions. Strong focus on empowering teams fosters collaboration and adaptability to evolving project needs, consistently achieving and surpassing objectives. Proven ability to drive results in dynamic environments while maintaining a commitment to continuous improvement and excellence.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Project Manager
CAI
07.2025 - Current
- Led cross-functional teams to deliver complex projects on time and within budget.
- Developed project plans, timelines, and resource allocation strategies to optimize workflow.
- Implemented proactive risk management processes to identify, assess, and mitigate project challenges related to data migration, integration, and reporting systems.
- Facilitated stakeholder meetings to gather business requirements and align project objectives with organizational goals, ensuring effective use of Oracle databases, Databricks analytics, and BI tools like BOBJ and Tableau.
Senior Project Manager
Citius Tech
04.2025 - 07.2025
- Led Proof of Concept (PoC) initiatives for AI/ML projects, collaborating with data science and engineering teams to validate use cases, data feasibility, and business value.
- Coordinated data preparation, model evaluation, and integration using platforms such as Databricks and Oracle, enabling rapid experimentation and informed go/no-go decisions.
- Presented PoC outcomes to stakeholders, translating AI/ML insights into actionable recommendations and aligning solutions with business objectives.
- Collaborated with team members to achieve target results.
- Managed complaints with clear communication and problem-solving.
- Maintained clean, safe working environments to eliminate accident risks.
- Achieved service time and quality targets.
- Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems.
- Built and maintained courteous and effective working relationships.
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2018 - 02.2025
- Leveraged 6+ years of experience in lean and agile environments to enhance team collaboration and maintain workflow efficiency.
- Applied widely successful Agile techniques, including User Stories, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Paired Programming, and Agile Games; demonstrated deep subject knowledge in backlog management, scrum ceremonies, DOR, DOD, Acceptance Criteria, Estimation, Story Splitting, and adept JIRA board management.
- Engaged stakeholders consistently, ensuring high satisfaction levels.
- Relentlessly focused on removing impediments for teams, ensuring that team members have what they need to deliver high-quality products.
- Passionate about continuous improvement, I implement best practices to promote productivity, efficiency, and high-quality deliverables, leading to improved team performance and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Committed to helping teams achieve their full potential, I provide coaching and guidance to team members to help them.
- Strong leadership, decision-making, and problem-solving skills, fostering high-performing teams and driving project success through strategic solutions.
- Excellent communication and motivational abilities, ensuring seamless collaboration, adaptability to change, and a positive, results-driven work environment.
- Enhanced productivity and efficiency by organizing workflows using structured Kanban systems.
- Project Management tools - Jira, Confluence
TECHNICAL LEAD
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2014 - 10.2018
- Offshore Overall Project Management and delivery in charge.
- Involved in estimation and project plan preparation.
- Project status reports were submitted on weekly/Monthly to provide the project status to senior Management and Quality Team.
- Milestone Monitoring.
- Involved in the requirement Gathering.
- Involved in design and Development of Universe & Reports(SAP BO), Tableau and Qlikview.
- Involved in semantic layer review.
- Prepared Technical Specification user manuals for the release items.
- Involved in user interaction for queries during requirement gathering & UAT.
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Wipro Technologies Ltd.
10.2010 - 06.2014
- Led the design, development, and deployment of complex software solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality code and seamless integration with business requirements.
- Responsible for converting the functions of oracle to Teradata.
- Involved in enhancement for country specific reports.
- Involved in unit testing and preparing test data.
- Involved in scheduling the reports.
- Handled Reports individually even when it was handed over in SIT phase.
- Involved in Source team interaction for queries during UAT.
- Involved in defect analysis and fixing the defects raised in SIT/UAT/PROD for all 4 countries.
- Involved in code promotion from SIT to UAT and UAT to Production.
- Tools Used - SAP BO
- Database - Teradata, Oracle
PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2010 - 10.2010
- Responsible for writing Technical Specs.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Hexaware Technologies
09.2007 - 02.2010
- Involved in the requirement analysis, Design, Development and Testing Phases.
- Walkthrough the requirement and proposed design to the Client.
- Involved in the Preparation of Security related documents.
- Migrated BO 6.5 reports, Universes, Users into BO XI version.
- Prepared the unit test plan.
- Tested the migrated BO reports and Universes.
- Developed the BO Xi Webi reports.
- Tested the Webi reports.
- Supported in SIT and UAT phases.
- Faced issues in UAT individually.
- Went through the entire quality process for all the reports.
Education
BE - ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
SREC ANNA University
Coimbatore, India04.2007
Skills
- Servant Leadership
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Problem-Solving
- Adaptability
- Stakeholder Management
- Agile Process
- Agile Ceremonies
- Agile Methodologies
- Kanban
- Agile
- Scrum
- Risk Assessment
- Conflict Resolution
- Sprint Planning
- Backlog Refinement
- Retrospective
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving
- Willingness to learn
- Calm under pressure
- Active listening
- Leadership
- Team building
- Team leadership and motivation
- Commitment to excellence
- Public speaking
- Analytical and critical thinking
- Customer focused
- Strategic planning
- Health and safety awareness
- Task collaboration
- MS Office Suite
- Complaint handling and resolution
- Public Relations
- Project planning and coordination
- Deadline management
Certification
- Certified SAFe 6 ScrumMaster
- Professional Scrum Master I
Additional Information
Facilitated strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring alignment on goals and priorities., Assessed and improved team Agile maturity, guiding them toward higher efficiency., Cultivated a culture of collaboration and transparency, enhancing team dynamics.
Languages
English
Proficient
C2
Tamil
Proficient
C2
Telugu
Intermediate
B1
Malayalam
Elementary
A2
Timeline
Project Manager
CAI
07.2025 - Current
Senior Project Manager
Citius Tech
04.2025 - 07.2025
Scrum Master/Project Manager
Tata Consultancy Services
11.2018 - 02.2025
TECHNICAL LEAD
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2014 - 10.2018
SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Wipro Technologies Ltd.
10.2010 - 06.2014
PROGRAMMER ANALYST
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2010 - 10.2010
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Hexaware Technologies
09.2007 - 02.2010
BE - ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING
SREC ANNA University