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Lakeville, Mn, Us

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis, Mn

• Led the transition from waterfall to Scrum. • Coached the team in following good scrum practices. • Engaged with Product Management, DEV and CS units in delivering a high-quality ProVation Ordersets product. • Developed strategies to improve team performance. • Established and maintained metrics to chart team’s progress through sprints. • Utilized Team Foundation Server (TFS) to create information radiators for clear communication within the team and also for reporting management. • Managed project initiation and planning • Managed product change • Managed product quality delivery • Led cross functional blitz tests. • Formed strong working relationships with coworkers across departments in the workplace. • Performed multiple roles (Scrum master, VMWare administrator and QA analyst) and demonstrated success. • Coordinated QA efforts with off-shore QA team to ensure quality and timely delivery. • Served as the point of contact for all QA matters for PVOS. • Demonstrated strong leadership skills and was awarded the scrum master role within 7 months of joining ProVation.

St. Louis Park, Mn

• Engaged with BA and Dev units in implementing Salesforce.com CRM solutions for clients. • Performed QA analysis on multiple projects for different clients. • Led sprint planning, sprints, demo/retros for projects in an Agile environment. • Performed multiple roles (BA and QA) in multifarious projects. • Coordinated QA, BA and Dev efforts towards ensuring timely project delivery. • Interacted directly with clients in project kickoffs and demos. • Tools used include JIRA, Salesforce.com, Eggplant (automation tool) and OpenAir among others. • Performed post release validation of different functionalities. • Learned and implemented Salesforce.com within a very short timeframe. • Established myself as an effective team leader and strong team player.

Edina, Mn

• Created test plans and cases for validating/testing of in-house web application. • Coordinated testing efforts between the business and development units. • Played key role in efforts leading to NRT being the number one preferred vendor for JPMC, from a position where NRT was about to lose the major client. • Revised and created the testing and reporting process from the ground up. • Worked as the final sign-off point for all development items before release. • Performed post-release validation of development items. • Worked with BAs, developers, DBAs and business units to create an effective and efficient process ofmanaging bugs and development items in testing stage. • Tools used include TFS, SharePoint, SQL, and Visual Studio among others.

Business Payroll Services, Tax Division, Wells Fargo Na, Bloomington, Mn

• Validation of nationwide clients’ state and federal tax rates and facilitation of rate updates. • Special projects include testing and verification of large client volume states which cannot be automated due to system complexities. • Performed testing and process automation for states requiring mass rate changes and updates. • Played key role in client migration from Evolution to Opt Right platform. • Software used include Master Tax, Evolution, Opt Right and POS.

Is Sales & Marketing, Boston Scientific, Arden Hills, Mn

• Involved in writing test specifications for multiple areas of IS sales & customer groups who uses Siebel CRM for their day to day business operations. The groups included customer contact center, Latitude customer service, Field action contact group and users in EMEAC regions. • Created process flows, presentations and reports to document recommendations and delivered them to the business stakeholders • Answered questions and acted as point of contact for scenarios that came up as the developers and testers worked off the business requirements • Held walkthroughs with BAs and Developers to implement updates and design changes. • Facilitated conversation with upstream and down stream system owners to facilitate test data in order to perform end to end regression testing.

Quality Is Group, Boston Scientific, Arden Hills, Mn

• Involved in writing test specifications for new global complaint handling system rolled out by CRM division of Boston Scientific. This system was built using adverse events functionality of Siebel CRM. • Involved in executing test scripts, creating test defects in Remedy, provided leadership in creating test data and coordinated end to end system testing for the same project. • Performed release validation testing for extensive data conversion effort for the same project. • Performed release validation testing for releases in pre-prod environment and during go live in production environment. • Communicated with the Dev Team and DBA’s on a regular basis to address issues. • Participated in the stress testing phase using load runner for the same project. • Created and Maintained Change Request Documents/Requirement Documents • Successfully managed relationships with vendors and other external partners.

Minnesota

Allstate Insurance: • Translate business requirements into test plan • Building one-on-one relationship with client, obtaining product and pricing information for conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) • Test case execution against Allstate Insurance and its back end Database (MS SQL Server 2005/2008) including updates to test case spreadsheets. Marvin Order Management System (Project Lead): • Ensuring the functionality and graphic user interface of the Marvin Order Management System • Performing validation and verification of the application using standard procedures of the Software Quality Assurance institute. • Logging bugs, creating change requests and assigning them to developers using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008 • Creating and reviewing test plans and test cases based on wireframes and requirements gathered through meetings with the client. • Building one-on-one relationship with client, obtaining product and pricing information for conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) • Making daily status updates and creating trees and folders on SharePoint when necessary. Medtronic Pacemaker Application Project • Testing UI and functionality of the pacemaker software • Adherence to strict processes and ISO guidelines while undergoing testing • Working with the client to optimize the performance of the application and implementing improvements to key application areasMagenic Timesheet project (Lead) • Writing test cases for the timesheet project • Performing negative and boundary testing for timecards • Validating web pages against firewalls and unique proxy servers • Identifying key areas of UI improvementWalk for life donation project • Creating tables in MS-Access and importing to SQL Server 2008 • Writing stored procedures for calling, gathering and organizing data • Building primary key and foreign key relationships for tables • Executing stored procedures built using SQL Server 2008

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration And Management, General, College

Activities and Societies: IUB Student Council Completed Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree with a Marketing major.

High School, 9Th -12Th

Activities and Societies: Track team