Karthika Sethupathy

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Aug 2006 - May 2012

  Project Coordinator

  • Ensured smooth requirement gathering between Onsite/Offshore team• Project Management Review• Internal Quality Audit• External Quality Audit• Go/No-go call management and coordinating with upper management

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  Construction AI

  Aug 2012 - Jun 2018

  Scrum Master

  • Guided support team in adopting Kanban principles• Tweaked WIP that best works for the team• Facilitated Retrospection and introduced metrics (CFD)• Collaborated with Product Owner on Product backlog grooming to keep it relevant and prioritized• Helped team in creating suitable Definition of Done, Definition of Ready • Resolved Conflict by focusing on scrum values of openness, honesty and respect• Coached PO in writing effective user stories• Acted as change agent for the Division Show less

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  CTS

  Jan 2018 - Apr 2020

  Scrum Master

  • Primary Coach for 2 teams to enable them to be autonomous• Guided teams in understanding Agile values , Principles , User story vs Spike (to name a few)• As a Change Agent to inculcate Growth Mindset among ST• Brainstormed and identified conversation starters to take a deep-dive on key attributes of high performance & coach teams in becoming High Performing Team (HPT)• Customized materials & workshop that conduce to high performance• Identified agreeable & measurable KPI's to reflect the true state of the team• Developed Road map for the team to evolve as a HPT• Help scrum team up to speed with Agile way of working• Exercised Risk based backlog• Piloted POD assessment to teams for feasibility to trans-mutate to a POD team• Practiced Mob Programming (TDD) Show less

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  TransUnion

  May 2020 - now

  Manager@Transunion