Independent IT/Management Consultant Resume

SUMMARY

Highly motivated, proactive IT centric professional with extensive years of dedicated experience in software testing and other IT - related platforms. Keen experience with multiple business process applications, including a wide-ranging portfolio of projects and industries.
Maintains solid knowledge of numerous technical applications and presents an affinity for team leadership and working with others.
Possesses sweeping technical experience managing software contingencies, as well as utilizing full competent analytical skills to further develop business systems and user interfaces, continuous integration to distributed systems, and test-driven development.
A proficient problem solver with an aptitude for innovation and solutions development. Communicative and personable, a technology evangelist who clearly and persuasively describes the benefits of various technologies articulately and accessibly.
Will benefit top organizations by discovering best practices to deliver robust experiences for clients-- powered by essential people skills, a success & growth mindset and relationship building acumen.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Pega - PRPC Version 6.1/6.2/6.3 | Guidewire - Policy Center 8.0 | HP Quality Center | SQL Server | Microsoft Office Suite | SDLC | SharePoint | JIRA | Confluence | Kanban
Tableau | AWS | Windows and MacOS | Keynote| Social Media | Data Modeling & Flow Design | Tosca Automation Test Suite | Test Automation | Data Visualization | EMC Documentum
Functional Testing | Slack | Data Analytics | Agile/SCRUM | Waterfall | Content Management | Case Management | IBM Curam | VLOOKUP | UAT | Eclipse
Selenium | Python | Integration Testing | Microsoft Project | OpenStack | Workday HR | Strategic Analysis | Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Independent IT/Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

Consults with clients, determining business needs, providing improvement solutions, and offering support to project teams and respective management.
Identifies gaps and improvements to existing processes and system functionality to increase purchase order utilization in eligible spend categories across several business units.
Collaborates with various business partners, including IT, Finance, Accounting, Marketing, and Operational teams.
Trains team members on relevant processes to ensure adherence to policies, drive consistency, and efficiency.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior IT Consultant/Project Manager

Responsibilities:

Provided professional industry expertise to assigned clients to facilitate initiatives for Confidential ’s client base.
Supported tailored client solutions to manage organizational change and improve client efficiency.
Delivered quality and highly-detailed business requirements leveraged by technical teams to create accelerated automated audit solutions.
Reduced manual testing hours by documenting granular technical and business details for testing teams.
Managed and led project management duties for data center enhancement, infrastructure enhancement, network upgrades, and network refinement.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Test Engineering Specialist

Responsibilities:

Championed testing efforts for several high budget clients on a global scale—driving to meet overall deliverables and milestone goals.
Reviewed requirements, specifications and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
Created detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test plans and test cases.
Estimated, prioritized, planned and coordinated testing activities.
Designed, developed and executed automation scripts using open source tools.
Developed and applied testing processes for new and existing products to meet client needs.
Liaised with internal teams (e.g. developers and product managers) to identify system requirements.

Confidential

Test Analyst

Responsibilities:

Delivered on company’s QA objectives by providing substantive testing support for conversion of legacy mainframe systems, as well as meticulously reviewing and verifying input/output files within protocol for data accuracy.
Streamlined data validation process for input/output files by diligently executing SQL queries in database tables.
Exhibited consummate leadership and managerial capability by leading a four-person team in SIT and UAT engagements, as well as assisting in the pioneering of test plans and development of test case strategies.
Consolidated QA operations by providing substantial testing support for Pega-based products built by a team of developers through a series of iterations.
Amplified end-user experiences by tactfully utilizing client-provided business requirements documents and accordingly create testing scripts and scenarios.