Varun Sethi

Experience

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  Wipro Limited

  Jul 2005 - Apr 2018

  Recognition from past roles in leading distributed agile teams, project and stakeholder management and an ability to design end to end solutions resulted in an increased responsibilities to manage large projects.Key responsibilities included managing and delivering complicated regulatory requirements through multiple releases in an agile environment, iteration planning and effectively executing all agile ceremonies. Success factors were ability to build focused and high performing distributed agile teams through astute management, servant leadership and removing impediments for the team. Show less Played a pivotal role in building a central testing environment for a leading bank to ensure maximum coverage for each phase of Verde - the bank's largest segregation programs. A successful central testing environment was crucial to ensuring integration of the 600 branches as part of the new entity. This opportunity came through proven abilities to deal with multiple stakeholders and excelling in Solution Architecture. Roles and responsibilities included understanding application flows, requirements and recommend a central testing implementation plan for each phase of the transition. Show less

  • Delivery Manager

    Apr 2016 - Apr 2018

  • Technical Lead

    Oct 2013 - Mar 2016

  • Implementation Lead

    Sept 2012 - Sept 2013

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Dec 2008 - Aug 2012

  • System Analyst/Analyst Programmer

    Jul 2005 - Nov 2008
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  Suncorp Group

  Apr 2018 - Feb 2021

  ▪ Create an environment for the team to be highly engaged and enabled. Empower team members to be self organized and create a culture of learning and transparency. ▪ Keep things simple for the team while driving innovation, remove blockages and anticipate and adapt to challenging market and business challenges. ▪ Provide regular & timely feedback to team members on performance and drive the development plans. ▪ Manage and address performance issues in the team. ▪ Manage the Policy & Pricing front door i.e. one stop shop for estimating and solution shaping all the work allocated to Policy & Pricing domain. ▪ Participate in regular Idea review sessions, asses impact to Policy Administration System and provide high level sizing. ▪ Look for performance tuning and technical debt opportunities and formulate a plan to get them delivered through the team or other team members in the domain ▪ Ensure Portfolio projects adhere to Delivery practices and standards and provide consulting to projects Show less

  • Business Solutions Lead

    Nov 2020 - Feb 2021

  • Delivery Manager

    Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
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  IAG

  Feb 2021 - now

  • Delivery Lead

    Jun 2023 - now

  • ADM Lead

    Feb 2021 - May 2023