Giridhar Krovidi

Delivered multiple enterprise projects for clients Sage, Vanquis, managing budgets, risk management and stake holder communications. • End-to-End Delivery Oversight – Managed the full delivery lifecycle from planning to execution, delivery, and acceptance. • Cross-Functional Coordination – Facilitated collaboration across development, QA, design, and operations teams. • Process Optimization – Identify and remove delivery obstacles, implement best practices, and drive efficiency improvements. • Agile Leadership – Lead agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) and ensure effective adoption. • Project Governance – Manage timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery. Created forecasts, schedules, budgets and resource requirement for the project lifecycle integration with platform, infrastructure requirements • Stakeholder & Client Management – Acted as the primary liaison, maintain transparency, manage expectations, and address escalations. • Performance Tracking & Reporting – Monitor KPIs, delivery metrics, and provide status updates to leadership and stakeholders. • Risk & Quality Management – Identify and mitigate risks, enforce quality standards, and ensure deliverables meet expectations. • Team Leadership – Build, motivate, and foster collaboration within delivery teams, resolving conflicts when needed. • Coaching & Mentorship – Guide team members on methodologies, tools, and techniques; encourage learning and professional growth. • Roadmaps- Developed roadmaps to transform Client Architecture for migrating existing data center to cloud. ● Cloud strategies- Defined enterprise cloud strategies, transforming data center architectures into scalable cloud solutions. ● API’s- Building and managing API’s, creating test frameworks using REST methods (Get, Post, Put, Delete, Patch)

LSA CONSULTING

● Delivery Lead for Data Migration and PIM program for STIBO application ● Manage onshore/offshore team and Stakeholders, QA deliverables, SOW, change requests, budget estimation, QA planning ● RTM, TDM, DATA LAKE transformation rules, UAT, delivery and sign offs ● Extensive use of TEAMS for collaboration, MS Project, Visio, Agile, Scrum, Jira, Confluence.

Advanced Auto Parts

Delivery Lead for Data Migration and PIM program for STIBO application ● Manage onshore/offshore team and Stakeholders, QA deliverables, SOW, change requests, budget estimation, QA planning ● RTM, TDM, DATA LAKE transformation rules, UAT, delivery and sign offs ● Extensive use of TEAMS for collaboration, MS Project, Visio, Agile, Scrum, Jira, Confluence.

ADVANCE AUTO PARTS

● Managed E2E project life cycle for a complex solution using Agile methodology ● Established and managed teams for a complex MDM solution project with testing of data lakes and data warehouses. ● Assessments lead for Enbridge Company in Toronto. ● Managed AML project for a leading bank in Montreal. Testing oversight and execution of AML transaction and account monitoring surveillance. Investigate and provide guidance and advice to multiple lines of business (Credit Card, Retail Bank, and Online Banking): risks associated with higher risk customers, transactions, products, services and geographies; compliance requirements and related controls; and regulatory expectations and/or industry practices. ● Enbridge Gas-Delivered organizational QA assessments using TMMI frameworks, achieving measurable improvements. ● Managed multiple RFP’s and RFQ’s for major enterprises ● Established project framework within Jira/Confluence/TFS/SharePoint/MS Project/ Kanban ● Instrumental in the development, implementation, delivery, and support of some of the large and complex applications spanned across multiple releases with the help of five development teams ● Implemented SaFe ceremonies and Agile principles to manage complex multi-release scopes across global teams. ● Worked with multiple stakeholders like cross development teams (both agile and non-agile), product management, client, design, solutions, architecture, operations, support, release train engineers, EPIC owners, implementation and release management teams, system and UAT teams, migration teams etc. ● Tracked the development and delivery progress through burn down charts, iteration health plan dashboard, estimated vs actual tasks hours etc. in Rally. Use of Confluence as an effective communication tool. ● Planned for support handover to support teams post warranty support lapse, production readiness awareness with details like performance statistics, known issues etc. to the production support team.

ACCENTURE TECHNOLOGY

● Managed E2E project life cycle for a complex solution using Agile methodology ● Established and managed teams for a complex MDM solution project with testing of data lakes and data warehouses. ● Assessments lead for Enbridge Company in Toronto. ● Managed AML project for a leading bank in Montreal. Testing oversight and execution of AML transaction and account monitoring surveillance. Investigate and provide guidance and advice to multiple lines of business (Credit Card, Retail Bank, and Online Banking): risks associated with higher risk customers, transactions, products, services and geographies; compliance requirements and related controls; and regulatory expectations and/or industry practices. ● Enbridge Gas-Delivered organizational QA assessments using TMMI frameworks, achieving measurable improvements. ● Managed multiple RFP’s and RFQ’s for major enterprises ● Established project framework within Jira/Confluence/TFS/SharePoint/MS Project/ Kanban ● Instrumental in the development, implementation, delivery, and support of some of the large and complex applications spanned across multiple releases with the help of five development teams ● Implemented SaFe ceremonies and Agile principles to manage complex multi-release scopes across global teams. ● Worked with multiple stakeholders like cross development teams (both agile and non-agile), product management, client, design, solutions, architecture, operations, support, release train engineers, EPIC owners, implementation and release management teams, system and UAT teams, migration teams etc. ● Tracked the development and delivery progress through burn down charts, iteration health plan dashboard, estimated vs actual tasks hours etc. in Rally. Use of Confluence as an effective communication tool. ● Planned for support handover to support teams post warranty support lapse, production readiness awareness with details like performance statistics, known issues etc. to the production support team.

Accenture

● Big data project with DevOps, CI and Query Surge. E2E ETL process involving DataMart, data servers and big data (Hadoop), test data creation and management. API testing using SOAP UI ● Planning, executing, and monitoring Siebel CRM projects, including feasibility studies, requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and user acceptance testing. ● Designed SQL queries framework for ETL, transformation rules, Source and destination data comparisons ● Oversaw software developers’ progress on applications and applied principles of agile methodologies to keep project on track. ● Agile, Scrum, Jira, managing sprint planning and team leading standups ● MS Project, Project Management, Scrum, Agile, JIRA, Visio, PowerPoint, Project, Word, Teams, Kanban. ● Coached team in optimal time utilization through concepts of scrum and agile management methodologies. ● Led sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings to touch base with whole team and ensure that all members are performing satisfactorily. ● Trained team members as well as the rest of the company staff in employing agile and scrum practices to improve workflow.

SAPIENT GLOBAL MA RKETS

● Big data project with DevOps, CI and Query Surge. E2E ETL process involving DataMart, data servers and big data (Hadoop), test data creation and management. API testing using SOAP UI ● Planning, executing, and monitoring Siebel CRM projects, including feasibility studies, requirements gathering, design, implementation, testing, and user acceptance testing. ● Designed SQL queries framework for ETL, transformation rules, Source and destination data comparisons ● Oversaw software developers’ progress on applications and applied principles of agile methodologies to keep project on track. ● Agile, Scrum, Jira, managing sprint planning and team leading standups ● MS Project, Project Management, Scrum, Agile, JIRA, Visio, PowerPoint, Project, Word, Teams, Kanban. ● Coached team in optimal time utilization through concepts of scrum and agile management methodologies. ● Led sprint reviews and daily scrum meetings to touch base with whole team and ensure that all members are performing satisfactorily. ● Trained team members as well as the rest of the company staff in employing agile and scrum practices to improve workflow.

Publicis Sapient

Managed E2E Project lifecycle for a $350M high value Infrastructure upgrade program spanning 14 projects, Implementing and managed Project Planning, Scoping, Resource Planning, Budgeting, Scheduling, Stakeholder management and POCs. ● Agile, Scrum, Jira, managing sprint planning and team leading standups. ● Managed test data and data mining from legacy systems for 240 applications being tested ● Managed multiple onshore/offshore teams, stakeholders’ expectations, deliverables, payrolls, invoices, Plans, schedules, timelines, and costing ● Instrumental in establishing the release management processes. Some of the process improvements like agile methodology (scrum) followed to improve productivity, close co-ordination with customer teams to address the pain areas, daily dashboard on issue status and constraints etc. introduced. ● Implemented follow-the-sun approach for diverse teams spread across multiple locations to work in tandem to ensure 24/7 availability of the applications to the clients accessing from different locations. Implemented efficiencies for go live and postproduction support more like light weight analysis document for end users, frequently recurring issues and resolution steps, runbook enhancement to include failure symptoms and recovery scripts, early client involvement for UAT, involving operations and support teams during the design phase, production readiness document with all technical implementation details etc. Designed and established TCOE (Testing Centre of Excellence) – additional responsibility

Scotia Bank

Managed E2E Project lifecycle for a $350M high value Infrastructure upgrade program spanning 14 projects, Implementing and managed Project Planning, Scoping, Resource Planning, Budgeting, Scheduling, Stakeholder management and POCs. ● Agile, Scrum, Jira, managing sprint planning and team leading standups. ● Managed test data and data mining from legacy systems for 240 applications being tested ● Managed multiple onshore/offshore teams, stakeholders’ expectations, deliverables, payrolls, invoices, Plans, schedules, timelines, and costing ● Instrumental in establishing the release management processes. Some of the process improvements like agile methodology (scrum) followed to improve productivity, close co-ordination with customer teams to address the pain areas, daily dashboard on issue status and constraints etc. introduced. ● Implemented follow-the-sun approach for diverse teams spread across multiple locations to work in tandem to ensure 24/7 availability of the applications to the clients accessing from different locations. Implemented efficiencies for go live and postproduction support more like light weight analysis document for end users, frequently recurring issues and resolution steps, runbook enhancement to include failure symptoms and recovery scripts, early client involvement for UAT, involving operations and support teams during the design phase, production readiness document with all technical implementation details etc. Designed and established TCOE (Testing Centre of Excellence) – additional responsibility

SCOTIABANK

● Test Data Manager, MBNA project, TD Bank ● Agile Delivery Lead, Business rules validation- MCAP ● QA Manager, Middleware project- Rogers ● QA Manager, Enterprise applications Credit risk, Calypso and Murex trading- American Express

Consulting

● Managed delivery for multiple Clients/Projects: Ministry of Justice- XP upgrade ● Munich Re-branding and Longevity (Credit Risk); Brakes Brothers – SAP Implementation; Avon Insurance. ● London Olympics – Vendor Management System; DTC London – Splitting; Home office – British Biometric Passport. ● E-Pharmacy – NHS; Finance Domain and Capital markets – McKenzie, Templar Investment funds, Calypso and Murex. ● Implement agile, Scrum, Kanban, Jira, managing sprint planning and team leading standups. ● Siebel CRM project implementation. Knowledge of Siebel architecture, data models and object customization to the level of Applets, Business components, Screens, Views, Links, Pick lists and drill downs. ● Manage project timelines and communicate with management staff and clients to ensure project progress satisfactorily.

ATOS

PMP

PMI

CSTM

GAQM

CSM

GAQM

TEST MANAGEMENT

ISEB, UK