Gurubaran Arularasu

About Gurubaran Arularasu

Experienced Senior Engineering Manager with 20+ years in Banking and Financial Services, delivering large-scale technology initiatives across APAC, EMEA, LATAM, and Canada. Proven expertise in Application Development, Maintenance, and Agile/DevOps transformations, Digital Transformation, Agile/Devops Transformation with a strong track record of leading cross-functional teams in complex, global environments.Key Highlights: PRINCE2 Certified Practitioner with strong project governance and risk management expertise Certified ScrumMaster, experienced in Agile adoption and DevOps culture enablement Full SDLC lifecycle management, from initiation to delivery Led geographically dispersed teams to successfully deliver projects on time and within budget Versatile experience across roles: Developer, Technical Lead, Solution Architect, Business Analyst, and Project Manager Strong stakeholder engagement, problem-solving, and leadership skills Proficient in JIRA, Clarity, HP Quality Center, SharePoint, Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project, Visio, and PowerPointPassionate about driving digital transformation, optimizing IT strategy, and delivering business value through innovative technology solutions.

Experience

1. Program Manager

   Tata Consultancy Services

   Jan 2017 — Present

   Responsible for managing one or more highly complex ITProject(s)/program consisting of multiple projects that may span a broad range of systems and enterprise-wide components. Defining and responsible for Project/Program Initiation, realistic Estimation/Budgets, Cost and Resource projection, Program/ Project Planning, ProjectInitiation, Project tracking and execution, Project Reporting, Change and Risk Management and Project closure and integration across multiple business and technical environments, covering a large range of business functions and capabilities. Facilitates program/ release level processes and execution with management and responsible for managing project costs, resources, change requests, risks and issues to ensure that maximum business benefits are maintained and Works in partnership with Product Owners, and the team to create and prioritize the product backlog.Develop project plans and ensure that the scope and approach are fully understood by all stakeholders and Identify and track key project milestones (base-lining critical path) and help assure strategy and execution alignment. Monitor and communicate progress of project delivery in terms of cost, forecast, schedule and assessment of risks/issues. Ensure effective change control procedures and processes are efficiently used to maintain control on scope, schedule and cost. Track, Direct and Guide team on projects on aspects of Cost, Schedule, scope.Track and review all Agile OKRs for the feature teams to measure performance of agile teams.Drive capability and culture thru Agile adoption and implementation of Agile & Devops practices on all projects delivered, Coaches teams to adopt the client SDLC process, Agile values, principles and practices, and actively encourage teams to reflect and improve their delivery capacity. Delivered Engineering transformation benefits to customer worth more than $ 4MM thru various transformation programs and initiatives over a period of 3 years

Education

• Coimbatore Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.)

• SAFe Agilist®

  Agile

  2015

• PRINCE2® Practitioner

  BE - Bachelor of Engineering, Project Management

  2013 — 2013

• Certified ScrumMaster ®

  Agile

  2015

• ITIL® Foundation

  IT Service Management

  2014 — 2014

Skills

• Business Requirements
• Testing
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Business Analysis
• Global Delivery
• Change Management
• Systems Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Hp Quality Center
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Resource Management
• Project Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Team Management
• Prince2
• Test Management
• Payment Cards
• Project Portfolio Management
• Agile Methodologies
• Technical Project Delivery
• Credit Cards
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Migration
• Mainframe
• Requirements Gathering
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Project Delivery
• User Acceptance Testing
• Pmp