Sukhpreet Kaur Randhawa
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Bangkok, Thailand
Toptal member since October 7, 2022
Sukhpreet has 12 years of extensive experience working in diverse capabilities in the IT industry. She began her Agile journey in 2018 with a large challenging Agile transformation project. Since then, she has served as a scrum master, building diverse performing teams to support organizational change using essential SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban. With a degree in computer science, Sukhpreet has worked as a team/technical lead and architect, project manager, and developer at Tata Consultancy Services.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Program Management
- Healthcare
- Kanban
- Key Performance Metrics
- Pharmacy
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Scrum
- Scrum Master
Work Experience
Scrum Master
Allianz
- Worked as a scrum master for two multicultural teams based in Europe, India, and Thailand. Focused on empowering the teams to understand the Agile principles and practices to achieve results.
- Set up three teams to guide them in the Agile and Scrum journey. Took numerous sessions and facilitated ceremonies to inspect and adapt by indirectly influencing and guiding the team.
- Actively contributed to local agile transformation (CoE and CoP). Worked on the strategy and roadmap for the local agile initiative. Conducted sessions for the local subsidiary on key agile and business topics.
Scrum Master and Technical Lead
Tata Consultancy Services (Client - Citibank)
- Guided two eight-member cross-functional teams toward Agile, facilitating scrum events and practices and working to improve the team's and organization's Agile maturity.
- Collaborated closely with each region's project manager for the successful delivery and rollout of the WM product in their respective area.
- Worked toward adopting and integrating Jira and Confluence to create new visible metrics using JQL for all stakeholders.
- Managed processes, tools, and reporting solutions to deliver valuable data-backed outcomes and build committed, self-organized, performing teams.
Scrum Master and Release Manager
Tata Consultancy Services (Client - CVS Health)
- Created the product roadmap as part of the guiding coalition for a retail pharmacy product's Agile transformation based on essential SAFe.
- Discussed and created potential improvements, ensuring cross-team dependency coordination with stakeholders and agile coaches.
- Conducted story mapping sessions for product prioritization.
- Attended scrum of scrums, facilitated Scrum events, and adopted Agile practices for user story and product backlog item creation, supporting the team to solve impediments.
- Managed the team's appraisals, handled stakeholder communication, and reported as the single point of contact for the product.
- Worked with clients, subject matter experts, and technical leads in creating the foundation for delivering the migration of a monolithic application to microservices design.
Project Architect
Tata Consultancy Services (Customer - CVS Healthcare)
- Disaggregated a monolith part application to microservices in Pivotal Cloud Foundry as the technical architect.
- Gathered and discussed requirements with the business team, creating user stories to support the disaggregation needs.
- Conducted supporting architecture activities, such as capacity projections and transactions per second calculations for the new service instances.
- Coordinated solution discussions for design integration with the competitive vendor where the company owned architecture activities.
- Presented the solution documents and received signoff from all stakeholders.
Technical Architect and Team Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
- Designed and proposed technology details for a key project admin console to support active-active data centers.
- Supervised architects in appraisals and guided the team in the successful and quality release of deliverables.
- Introduced custom Checkstyle, code review tool integrations, and performance tool evaluation to strengthen code quality.
Development Team Lead
Tata Consultancy Services
- Led the team in successfully delivering and rolling out new pharmacy initiatives to 10,000 stores with no production issues.
- Communicated with the project management, testing, production support, and architecture teams in all phases to provide support and ensure quality delivery.
- Represented the development team in stakeholder discussions, status reports, and risk presentations to find solutions to problems.
- Focused on streamlining and building DevOps tools with the change management team for continuous delivery and under-the-table coverage.
Senior Developer
Tata Consultancy Services
- Undertook designing, coding, code reviewing, unit testing with JUnit, and static code review analysis using profiling tools like SA4J, PMD, Checkstyle, and AppDynamics Lite.
- Developed core components like the business delegate, service lookup, and persistor for data access and inter-module communication interfaces.
- Collaborated with the business analyst and testing team to successfully deliver all components.
- Received several client appreciation awards for outstanding work.
Project History
WM Product Rollout in the EMEA Region
Managed a team of 15-20 developers across various regions to successfully roll out and launch a waste management (WM) product in the EMEA region on time.
During the project, I interacted with the product owner to create user stories for enhancements and prioritization and coached the team on new technology and the Agile methodology. I leveraged the existing CI/CD pipeline for project delivery and worked on highlighting issues and risks, focusing on quick resolutions. I also became the single point of contact for handling deliverables, status reports, and escalations from a customer perspective.
Disaggregation of Opportunity Services
Handled and delivered the challenging technical transformation of a healthcare pharmacy project while transitioning from the Waterfall to Agile methodologies.
The project laid the foundation for future Agile releases, and the retrospectives and survey helped streamline practices and build the mindset. I received numerous client appreciation awards for my dedication and achievement.
Administrative Console Supporting Active-Active Data Centers
Designed and guided the development team in building an administrative software to help route applications from one data center to another.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
Nagpur University - Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Certifications
ICAgile-Agile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC)
ICAgile
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Professional Scrum Master Level I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Rally, HP Quality Center (QC), Eclipse IDE
Paradigms
Scrum, Kanban, Key Performance Metrics, Microservices Architecture, Agile, Waterfall Delivery, Waterfall Development, Agile Project Management
Industry Expertise
Healthcare
Platforms
Oracle, VMware Tanzu Application Service (TAS) (Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF))
Other
Scrum Master, Scrumban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Agile Program Management, Pharmacy, Wealth Management, Spotify, Java 8, Performance Tuning, Spring Boot, Java 5, Java 7, Software Project Management, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Technical Project Management, Java, Project Management, Agile Coaching
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