Project Manager Resume Bentonville, AR - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

7 years of experience leading cross - functional teams in IT HR
4+ years of experience prioritizing and managing multiple projects within specifications and budget restrictions.
Extensive forecasting, resource, risk and change management experience
Experience in Agile / Scrum methodology
Fluent English and Spanish (verbal and written)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Project Manager - Indirect Spend Management

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Work closely with customer to identify best sourcing strategies for area wide projects to increase savings from different services provided to stores, clubs and DCs.
Identify and manage scope, risks, resource needs, budget and timelines for different sourcing projects impacting different business areas including Energy, Facilities Maintenance, General Maintenance Technician program, and third party sourcing.
Manage multiple projects with different supplier base participating in bids for different service needs.
Review documentation for suppliers and follow up for sign off and approval.
Provide updates and reports to upper management as well as stakeholders and suppliers

QA Project Leader

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Managed company-wide projects including: Annual Incentives paying over $1.1 billion to associates in Walmart Stores, Sam’s Club, DC, Home Office in US and PR, Annual Compensation Project in which pay rate was raised for 1.3 million associates with 99.9% success rate.
Worked closely with project managers and collaborate on resources needs, timelines and budget.
Managed onsite resources ranging from 2 to 4 resources, as well as multiple offshore teams of over 10 Testers; led status calls, providing minutes of meeting and follow up on action items. Ensuring proper escalation procedures are followed when needed.
Worked with development and operations teams to identify best test strategy for each project
Work closely with customers to complete UAT test plan, test cases, reviewed resource needs and budget from QA to ensure proper coverage.
Worked with development and QA team to identify automation strategy which reduced manual testing efforts by almost 65%
Coordinated in planning and executing the 2016 QA summit.
Reviewed and provided feedback on area documents including test plans, test strategy

Quality Assurance Senior Analyst

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Manage company-wide projects following agile methodology including Annual Incentives, Veterans Welcome Home Program, Global Recruiting System among others.
Responsible for the completion of QA activities from two different teams with onsite and offshore resources for an international project following agile methodology.
Manage resources needs, timelines and budget for QA team.
Manage onsite resources ranging from 2 to 4 resources, as well as multiple offshore teams of over 10 testers to ensure tasks are on track and as per Wal-Mart standards; leading status calls, providing minutes of meeting and follow up on action items. Ensuring proper escalation procedures are followed when needed.
Reviewed and provided feedback on documents including test plans and test strategy; identify best test strategy, defined and document risks.
Assist customer on User Acceptance Testing test plan, test cases and overall plan for UAT. Track and provided reports to upper management and different stakeholders.
Created standards for the QA area, presented information to different QA teams and areas like CPNA and AD.

Engineer, Software Quality Assurance

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Lead team of 5+ testers offshore and coordinated tasks to be completed between infrastructure teams, development and QA team.
Managed different work streams on different projects including Global Recruiting System, Logistics HR Solution R3.
Worked closely with Project Managers by providing staffing estimates to ensure resources needed by QA were met.
Assisted Business Analyst from different areas on requirements gathering.
Assisted customers during User Acceptance Testing, explaining requirements, test plan and gain sign off from customers.
Facilitated daily triage meetings with project team and UAT testers.

Programmer

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Lead US and Canada Daylight Savings Time (DST) project. Coordinate with other teams in division including Point of Sale (POS), Infrastructure and Global Time and Attendance. Coordinated resources on team for validation.
Worked with customers in US and Canada for UAT and implemented solution for updates to web based applications.