Project Manager Quality Assurance
Resume:
ASHWINI MAHAJAN
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Beaverton, OR-97006
Email: **********@*****.***
Overview
o Business Analyst/ System Analyst/ Project Manager/ Project
Coordinator in a Career Spanning of around 8 Years.
o Extensive experience in Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing &
Implementation of Software Applications.
o Involvement in identifying and documenting business
requirements, preparing budgets for the project, developing a
Software Project Plan, conducting risk assessment, appraising
project personnel, resolving conflicts, defining
responsibilities and maintaining offshore leverage
o Active participation in various PMO related activities as part
of WCS group.
o Involvement in different phases during a project like functional
requirements, test strategy, training strategy, user case, test
case preparation.
o Strong decision making, analytical, logical and problem
resolution skills, ability to quickly adapt to new technologies
by self-learning, Ability to manage multiple, complex
priorities.
o Excellent interpersonal/communication as skills.
Professional and Consulting Experience
POS International (POS)
Role: Business Analyst
Best Buy Corporation, Minneapolis, USA Oct 2007 to
Dec 2009.
Responsibilities and Activities:
Analyze and study the ORPOS base product.
Document the out of box functionality for ORPOS, log defects to Oracle
if any.
Document and finalize the clear, concise and unambiguous requirements
for current and future releases
Conduct power point presentations in various countries for in-country
business leads in order to explain the POS base product capabilities.
Work independently to gather requirements by interviewing business
partners, conduct JAD sessions, active listening.
Act as facilitator between Business group and technical team.
Conduct brain storming sessions within architecture and technical
teams within POS in order to implement new requirements and provide
estimation on the same.
Create 'Detailed Functional specifications' to be used as input to the
detailed design and shall be maintained on ongoing basis.
Conduct comprehensive requirements reviews for approving and
finalizing requirements.
Peer review and inspection on Requirement Specification documents.
Create Module test cases, conduct the testing for the same and
document defects.
Coordinate with various 3rd party teams in order to implement the
integration between POS and 3rd party.
Test the base product feature and raise the defects to Oracle.
Coordinate with technical team for implementing the solution patches
provided and verify the tool for correctness.
Environment/ Technologies:
ORPOS product, J2E, Java, JSP, Oracle.
RDC Miniloader (Distribution)
Role: Business Analyst, Project Coordinator
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, USA Jun 2007 to
Aug 2007.
Responsibilities and Activities:
Work independently to gather requirements by interviewing business
partners, conducting JAD sessions, active listening.
Gather and prepare the different types of requirements like
functional, non-functional, business, user interfaces by using the use
case templates.
Creating flow charts in Visio for 'As Is' and 'To Be' process flows.
Conduct comprehensive requirements reviews for approving and
finalizing requirements.
Manage to project priorities.
Follow up with team to understand certain to meet the schedule for
deliverables and task milestones
Project status reporting and forecasting by scheduling team meetings.
Identifying and assisting in the development of additional business
opportunities within current clients.
Environment/ Technologies:
SharePoint, JSP, Microsoft Office Suite (project plan, Visio, word, excel,
power point), Clarity.
CAMS (Automated Management Services)
Role: Business Analyst
Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, USA Feb
2006 to May 2007.
Automated Management Services (CAMS) project involves analysis of the scope
of work and finalize all requirements. Project uses several windows tools
like Wise for Windows Installer (WfWI), Windows Installshield and Windows
Installer to re-package it into a single click installable which when
clicked would automatically complete the product installation on the user's
machine without any user intervention.
CAMS team also has a website integrated with Remedy and Oracle database
used for monitoring and tracking multiple projects statuses.
Responsibilities and Activities:
Involvement in gathering information from third party for each module.
Manage to project priorities.
Interacting with the clients (Data Stewards) and end users to
understand and finalize all requirements.
Assuring quality of various document deliverables such as support
instructions, test case etc.
Jolting minutes of meetings and do a follow up on action items.
Monitor different server migrations and production roll out.
Coordination with various third party vendors outside company.
Environment/ Technologies:
Coldfusion, VSS, Toad, Dreamweaver, Oracle, Installshield, Flexnet, VMWare,
Wise for Windows Installer, Wise Install Master, Virtual Machines.
AMC Shared Pool (AMC SP)
Role: Business Analyst, Project Manager
Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, USA Jun 2003 to
Jan 2006.
AMC TCS Shared Pool is a support structure designed to offer technology and
services consultancy across various departments and value cycles in one of
the largest pharmaceutical company. The Pool works on multiple
projects/applications in Web and Lotus Notes technology at the same time.
These applications are of different nature and may be for support,
development, or enhancement.
Responsibilities and Activities:
Feasibility study of a new system.
Execution of multiples small scale projects simultaneously.
Evaluating alternative solutions and come up with technology which is
best fit for existing system.
Interacting with customer for understanding the system and requirement
Gathering.
Analyzing the project and estimating the efforts.
Communicating the functional requirements to the project team
Monitoring the various deliverables of Validation documents like Test
cases, test plans, traceability matrix, status reports.
Coordination of various groups such as Oracle, ISG as per the project
requirement.
Creating the lessons learned document from recent projects.
Environment/ Technologies:
Java, Toad, Coldfusion, Visual Basic, Java Script, Microsoft Access, 2 Way,
Boldfish, IBM Web sphere 5.0, Visual Studio 6.0, Macromedia Dream weaver,
Rational Clear case, Remedy, Dreamweaver, Microsoft Project, SharePoint.
eTCS (Ultimatix)
Role: Team Lead
Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India May
2002 to Mar 2003.
Ultimatix is extended improved version of Billing system. It uses
centralize database for all the cycles, activities, happening in TCS.
Responsibilities and Activities:
Production support for various modules in Ultimatix.
Resolved online queries related to customer creations, funding
adjustments, agreements linking, and budgets submissions.
Implemented the concept of group client for report purpose.
Coordinated with end users and team to provide adhoc reports as and
when needed.
Followed quality procedures to maintain the log for each and every
data entry and updates in the same. Customer creation and sales person
creation in VSS to keep the track on modifications.
Acquired knowledge about different module set-up like Account
Receivable, Project Accounting, and PRM etc. and identify business
need across the modules.
Environment/ Technologies:
Oracle Apps, VSS
Web Based Billing System
Role: Module Lead
Tata Consultancy Services, Mumbai, India Jan 2001 to
Apr 2002.
Billing System handles TCS financial flow. The system is linked to TCS
branches all over the world and have a centralize database for ease of
billing calculation, manpower allocation monitoring and report generation.
It is a web-based system and provides various MIS to users.
Responsibilities and Activities:
Conducted project for maintaining and enhancing the Domestic Billing
System website.
Assisted team members in designing and development of front-end.
Did requirement analysis for the various modules and documented the
same as part of requirement gathering.
Optimization of the outstanding queries to run the reports faster.
Maintenance of the softex module (along with the softex declaration
form).
Make certain the deliverables for outstanding reports (with different
age parameters) meet the desired dates.
Created stored procedures for frequently asked reports for faster
results.
Environment/ Technologies:
ASP, VB, VB Script, Java Script, SQL Server, Database administration,
Microsoft Visual Interdev 6.0
Library Search System
Role: Web Developer
Indicos/ ACE Software, Mumbai, India Oct
2000 to Dec 2000.
Responsibilities and Activities:
Did requirement analysis for the system to be developed and documented
the same as part of requirement gathering.
Design and development of front-end.
Maintenance of the existing system
Attended training sessions on Java.
Environment/ Technologies:
Java Script, J2EE, JSP.
Education
. Degree in Electronics Engineering (BE) from Vivekananda Education Society
and Institute of Technology
. HSC from D G Ruparel college
. SSC from Utkarsha Mandir
Technology Competencies
. Languages:
SAS, Cold Fusion Markup Language (CFML), Active Server Pages (ASP), Java,
C, C++, Visual Basics 6.0, HTML, Java Script, VB Script
. Application / Tools:
IBM Web sphere 5.0, TOAD, Visual Studio 6.0, Microsoft SQL Server 7.0,
Macromedia Dreamweaver, Rational Clear case, Remedy, Citrix, Install
Shield, Flex net, VM Ware, Wise for Windows Installer, Wise Install Master,
Virtual Machines.
Professional Memberships and Achievements
. PMP - Project Management Professional certification, organized by Project
Management Institute (PMI).
. CSQA - Certified Software Quality Analyst organized by Quality Assurance
Institute.
. SAS Base Certification - SAS Base Programming for SAS (r) 9 organized by
SAS Institue.
. Sun Java Certification - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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