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Karthiga T

Bangalore

Summary

  • Innovative and solutions-focused IT leader with 12+ years of comprehensive experience in Agile project management, Quality Assurance, and Software Development. Known for successfully leading high-performing, multi-disciplinary teams through all phases of product development to achieve successful launches Expertise spans across:
  • Agile Leadership: Proficient in Scrum and Kanban methodologies, adept at facilitating sprint planning, daily scrums, and retrospectives. Skilled in backlog management, continuous delivery, and fostering a collaborative team environment.
  • Technical Proficiency: Strong command of JavaScript, Ruby, Node.js, HTML/CSS, AJAX, jQuery, CouchDB, and RESTful web services. Experienced in using Git, GitHub, and Bitbucket for version control, and proficient in utilizing project management tools like Trello and JIRA.
  • Quality Assurance and Testing: Developed QA processes, test plans, and automated testing using Python and Selenium. Demonstrated ability in performing comprehensive testing including regression and usability testing.
  • Project Management: Proven track record in release and deployment management, risk assessment, and mitigation. Skilled in creating project timelines, managing resources, and maintaining project documentation.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Project Manager & ScrumMaster

Gensler Designs India
Bangalore
01.2018 - Current

Client Profile

  • Client Profile App is to view the client details, and it also contains information like how many projects we have worked for that particular client and team members who worked for that client.

KM Console

  • KM Console App is to view/edit the document and award details for various project

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Proficient in creating and ma project plans, project charters, timelines.
  • Cultivated collaborative relationships with team and Product Owner.
  • Identified risks associated with each project and developed strategies for mitigating those risks.
  • Conducted regular status meetings with internal teams and external partners to track progress against established milestones.
  • Facilitated resolution of conflicts between team members when necessary.
  • Actively sought out feedback from stakeholders throughout the duration of a project in order to identify areas needing improvement or adjustment.
  • Created project backlog based on the requirements.
  • Provided guidance to team members regarding tasks assigned to them.
  • Managed multiple projects with competing deadlines simultaneously.

ScrumMaster & Quality Assurance Analyst

Gensler Designs India
Bangalore
01.2015 - 12.2017

Project Profile

  • Project Profile app is to view/edit any details like updating story, Team, Partners, Metrics, Images, Documents information for an particular project

Search

  • Search App contains all employee details, Project Details, Client Details, Images & Document Details for an organization. We can search any specific person or project through this app

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, story time, retrospectives, stakeholder meetings, software demonstrations and project review
  • Protect development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts, and maintain focus on product backlog and project timeline
  • Work closely with project owner in backlog management and continuous delivery of features
  • Educate and reinforce scrum methodology and agile framework to team members and key stakeholders
  • Direct and lead development team from project initiation through the delivery of final product
  • Risk Analysis
  • Handling release and deployment management
  • Addressed problems through risk management and contingency planning
  • Maintain a proper balance between product owner, scrum team and management
  • Maintain burndown charts
  • Creating a high level project planning and resource planning
  • Creating backlogs, schedule and project timeline
  • Monitor the project progress and report to stakeholders
  • Implement and manage change when necessary to meet project outputs
  • Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules or potential problems
  • Review software documentation to ensure technical accuracy, compliance or completeness
  • Develop test plans, QA processes and test cases for product management and software development teams
  • Implement testing programs to perform quality assurance on web applications including negative testing, regression testing and usability
  • Implement Automation Testing using Python and Selenuim
  • Document software defects, using a bug tracking system, and report defects to software developers.

Software Developer

Gensler Designs India
Bangalore
11.2013 - 12.2014

Projects - GDEA (Gensler Design Excellence Award)

  • GDEA is an product used for submitting the good projects to win the award. GDEA contains all the projects they have worked for the whole year, If the user thought their project is best they can submit the project through this app

People's Choice

  • People's Choice is an voting application created for the users can vote for any projects that they likes expect their own project and their regional office projects

Roles & Responsibilities

  • Developing web-based applications for various projects.
  • Technologies used are JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and jQuery.
  • Deployed web applications on AWS or Azure.
  • Assisted with planning, designing, coding, debugging, testing, documenting, and maintaining software applications.
  • Debugged code to identify errors and fix them efficiently.
  • Collaborated with team members to ensure successful project completion.
  • Conferred with project managers and other stakeholders to fully understand software design specifications and plan optimal development approaches.
  • Analyzed code and corrected errors to optimize output.
  • Reviewed project requirements to identify customer expectations and resources needed to meet goals.

Software Engineer

Mindplough Analytics Private Limited
Chennai
09.2011 - 10.2013
  • Responsibilities: Analyse the requirements
  • Developing the code
  • Perform testing the modules
  • Handling deployments and servers
  • Resolving escalated customer complaints without the need for team lead intervention.

Education

BE - Computer Science and Engineering

SNS College Of Engineering, Anna University, Coimbatore
01.2011

HSC -

Kongu Vellalar Matric Higher Secondary School, Vellakovil
01.2007

SSLC -

Kongu Vellalar Matric Higher Secondary School, Vellakovil
01.2005

Skills

ScrumMaster & Project Manager

  • Agile Leadership
  • Scrum
  • Project Management
  • Hiring
  • Resource Management
  • Facilitating sprint planning
  • Daily scrums
  • Retrospectives
  • Backlog management
  • Continuous delivery
  • Fostering a collaborative team environment

Software Development

  • JavaScript
  • Ruby
  • Nodejs
  • HTML/CSS
  • AJAX
  • JQuery
  • CouchDB
  • RESTful web services
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • Bitbucket
  • Version control

Project management tools

  • Trello
  • JIRA

Quality Assurance

  • Testing
  • QA processes
  • Test plans
  • Automated testing
  • Python
  • Selenium
  • Comprehensive testing
  • Regression testing
  • Usability testing
  • Project Management
  • Release and deployment management
  • Risk assessment
  • Risk mitigation
  • Project timelines
  • Managing resources
  • Project documentation

Certification

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Scrum Alliance.

Spokenlanguages

  • English
  • Tamil

Personal Information

  • Father's Name: Thangaraju M
  • Date of Birth: 12/31/1989
  • Nationality: Indian

Accomplishments

  • Promoted as ScrumMaster & Project Manager
  • Delivered most of the projects before the deadline
  • Received lot of appreciation emails and messages for various projects
  • Successfully Implemented scrum process for other teams like Workday, Salesforce, Reporting

Languages

Tamil
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Beginner (A1)
A1

Timeline

Project Manager & ScrumMaster

Gensler Designs India
01.2018 - Current

ScrumMaster & Quality Assurance Analyst

Gensler Designs India
01.2015 - 12.2017

Software Developer

Gensler Designs India
11.2013 - 12.2014

Software Engineer

Mindplough Analytics Private Limited
09.2011 - 10.2013

BE - Computer Science and Engineering

SNS College Of Engineering, Anna University, Coimbatore

HSC -

Kongu Vellalar Matric Higher Secondary School, Vellakovil

SSLC -

Kongu Vellalar Matric Higher Secondary School, Vellakovil
Karthiga T