Nithya Makesh, Beng (Computer Science), Csm Email & Phone Number

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Led engineering endeavor with a $20 million budget, orchestrating the re-platforming and building of a robust web application.
• Built comprehensive product delivery blueprint through collaborative efforts with Product, design, data science and architecture partners.
• Established and nurtured four high-performing, cross-functional Scrum teams, comprised of over 35 talented individuals spanning diverse technical domains, including front-end, back-end, test automation, and manual QA.
• Member of leadership team working on the ongoing transformation of Digital Banking for Canada.
• Championed development best practices, including Test-Driven Development (TDD) and paired programming, to elevate application quality and codebase robustness.
• Manage vendor relationships, overseeing contract development, and creating vendor assessment scorecards to ensure alignment with architectural standards.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Owning delivery of mobile app (iOS and Android), managing all the phase of the Project: Ideation, Decide, Deliver (Sprint) and Warranty, following agile methodologies & JAD (Joint Application Development, Iterative.
• Maintain project artefacts in Confluence
• Handle end-to-end project execution from Initiation, Design, Development, Delivery, IST/UAT support and Post Delivery Support
• Successfully manage communication with the project sponsor, business, technical and functional experts, review project roadmaps, work breakdown structures (WBS), gather functional and technical requirements, developed.
• Handle Strategic Investment & Prioritized Projects (SIP) and feature enhancements in parallel.
• Work closely with Operational Readiness team and ensure, projects are well planned for delivery

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Setup Jira and Confluence for projects moving to Agile from Traditional methodology.
• Mentor/Coach BA/Developers/Testers/Product Owner on Agile Transformation
• Use Jira, Confluence for all Agile User Stories & Documentation. Work with the Product Owner and define the priority for each of the Tickets in Jira & come up with detailed sprint planning. Use Confluence to gather the.
• Create Dashboard & generate reports from Jira for all open/closed/deferred/roadmap tickets.
• Engage architects, tech leads and dependent teams to resolve impediments that impacts sprint’s progress
• Communicate plan, status and risks to executives through weekly reports and steering committee meetings

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Drive assigned technical project management activities related to Infrastructure, networking, application implementations and server upgrades.
• Ensure IT systems are security compliant with most recent security standards.
• Develop, plan, analyze, evaluate and assign priorities to deliverables and requirements.
• Develop strategy, plan, and organize staff and overall operations to ensure stable and secure operation of the IT infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Release Management team, to schedule the change
• Manage vendor relationships

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Identified business opportunities in Scotiabank in the areas of Document Management system and Project Control Office (PCO) Operations.
• Actively involved in recruitment process to support organization expansion in Canada.
• Partnered with the Business owners, Stakeholders and IT Teams to meet committed project goals that support business objective.
• Demonstrated leadership, by identifying manual processes and converted into automated systems in Canadian Banking Technology (CBT) on Contract Management System and Invoice Processing.
• Prepared AS-IS and TO-BE process flow charts and cost benefit analysis for the suggested process improvements.
• Conducted roadshows to all the Hiring Managers in the department of Canadian Banking.

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Chennai Area, India

Chennai Area, India