NIKHILA KASHA
****************@*******.*** 980-***-**** Omaha, Nebraska
LinkedIn URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhila-kasha/ Currently working on my Master’s degree in MIS and own a Salesforce Certified Administrator with two years of progressive experience. I see myself as a person who builds and maintains lasting relationships, driving clear communication through a people-focused approach, and committed to ensuring Salesforce users experience at the best service and support.
EDUCATION
University of Nebraska at Omaha Graduation date: Dec 2020 Master’s in Management Information system (GPA 3.7/4.0) (Eligible for CPT) Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University August 2014- July 2018 Bachelor's In Computer Science Engineering (GPA 3.5/4.0) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Nebraska at Omaha May 2019 – Present Graduate Assistant
- Optimized website content and design to facilitate better user experience and enhance the programs affiliated to the College of Education.
- Assisted the dean regarding teacher and student evaluations and generated reports on class and instructor performance.
- Facilitated improvements in teaching methods and feedback to faculty members.
- Analyzed the Annual Reports related to Rosken’s hall (UNO) using Tableau and Excel. We Care Insurance May 2020 – August 2020
Software Engineer Intern
- Developed web applications using JavaScript, HTML 5, CSS, PHP, and WordPress with MySQL Server databases.
- Maintaining and improving existing codebases and peer review code changes.
- Work with the Selenium Automation tool with JAVA as the base, using Web driver to test the application.
- Improving system efficiency by defining common problems and trends, and establish standard operating procedures. Making recommendations and formulating and developing systems.
- Liaising with colleagues to build innovative designs.
- Experience with Eclipse & Junit.
- Trying to investigate emerging technologies and using them where applicable. Saas Labs May 2017 - Dec 2018
Salesforce Architect/ QA Manual tester
- Collaborated with General Electric Company for a HealthCare project - “My Customer Training”.
- Acquired almost 2 years of progressive experience as a QA in Salesforce.com CRM application, mainly with Leads, Contacts, Accounts, Cases, and Opportunities.
- Acquired fair amount of experience in both manual as well as automation testing in Salesforce. Identifying the test requirements and scenarios.
- Familiarized with Salesforce CRM application as well as Sales, service, and Marketing clouds.
- Experienced with creating flowcharts, identify the relationships and explaining the flow of the process.
- Administrate and configure workflows, custom objects, and fields by Salesforce.
- Basic understanding with the Apex code, SOQL, Visualforce pages and Lightning components to build simple and scalable solutions that support application development.
- Experience with different SFDC deployment methods. In addition, have an ability to create third party apps.
- From Saas Labs, Worked with Wabtec Corporation as my client under HealthCare project, One Wabtec. My work involved designing and building signup and Login pages using HTML and JavaScript and used Parse to save user information on the Cloud. Experience in developing code in Lightening framework.
- Experience with maintaining the security and integrity of the application software. Qliktag Software Inc Jan 2017- April 2017
Student Intern
- Developed a food delivery service website as a vital member of the website development team.
- Learned multiple programming languages such as Angular JS, HTML and CSS libraries and user Interfaces
- Front-end software: Angular Framework, Backend: Express JS and Database: Mongo DB CERTIFICATIONS
- Salesforce Certified Administrator ADM 201 (Credential ID is 20784669)
- Salesforce Certified Platform Developer I (Credential ID is 21449422)
- Salesforce Certified Service Cloud Consultant (Credential ID is 21442502)
- Certified in LINUX, C, C++, PHP by IIT Bombay, spoken tutorial in 2018.
- Certified in database fundamentals by MICROSOFT in 2018.
- Certified in HTML, CSS by ORACLE in 2017.
SKILLS
- Experience with Waterfall, Agile software development (Scrum) tools like ZIRA, Agile Accelerator, Zenhub.
- Experience in both manual and automation testing with Quality Center, ALM, and QTP tools.
- Expertise in data manipulation using Microsoft Excel.
- Hands-on experience in Microsoft Office 365 and Tableau.
- Self - motivated, team-oriented individual with strong problem-solving abilities.
- Strong in analyzing business requirements and specifications and development of test plans, test scripts, test cases and executing them.
- Committed to working in project deadlines and schedules. Strong initiative as well as a Team player.
- Very inquisitive nature to learn new stuff. Ability to grasp and adapt new technology quickly and accurately. RELATED COURSEWORK
University of Nebraska at Omaha (Master’s Degree)
Projects:
- Designed several websites using the Django framework and Python using methodologies to analyze and design information systems.
- Worked on a Federal level project called Commingled Remains Analytics (CoRA), which is a web application with database and APIs as a community resource for inventorying assemblages of commingled human remains, while providing a framework of analytic methods, visualization techniques and tools to assist in the segregation and identification process. This website uses JavaScript framework Vue.js for UI and Laravel PHP for backend.
- Experience projects using Vuetify framework for Vue.js as frontend and Django framework for Python as backend.
- Familiarized with agile and SCRUM methodologies by working on multiple group projects.
- Gained knowledge on agile methodologies with extensive use of the Kanban technique.
- Hands-on experience with RESTful services, and familiarity with REST, SOAP and streaming APIs for several real- time client projects. In addition, experienced with code versioning and code branching strategies in GitHub and actively participating in code reviews.
- Ability to create web applications using Vue.JS and Node JS. Good experience in designing a website with all interesting features using Django as a backend and VUE.Js or HTML as front end.
- Experienced with writing the testsripts as well as testsuites for all my projects and performing unittest or pytest in Selenium IDE. Also expertise in API testing using Postman tool.
- Developed the applications using the enterprise architecture concepts such as SOA, Micro services, Web Services and API’s using JSON.
- Designed an OSI model as a major project, having a comprehensive review of data and computer networking for business information systems within the framework.
- Designed a data model for a Volunteer website using SQL tools and learned techniques such as data quality management, database design, data governance, and got a clear picture of how the relational model works.
- Acquired knowledge in areas of management information systems, including decision Support Systems and Enterprise Resource Planning techniques used to analyze business data in the fields of Business Intelligence. Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (Bachelor’s Degree)
- Designed a healthcare monitoring device based on IOT platform containing a GUI for reading all the parameters of the human body in the web-enabled mobile device. The Cloud server used here was Microsoft Azure and the developed in Python.