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Sandra Williams

Sandra Williams

Canterbury,Kent

Summary

▪ I come with a vast industry experience, having Excellent analytical, problem solving, strong communication skills and people skills, with an ability to interact with individuals at all levels and work as a part of a team as well as independently. Good working relationships developed with other stakeholders i.e., Internal - Information Governance, Business Intelligence, Information Technology teams and can help the team to Identify areas of weakness in the availability of data, delivery and quality of information and can suggest effective strategies for resolution.

▪ Ability to present the Data analysed with my knowledge in data science using various tools like Knime and Tableau that is dependent on the audience (non-technical as well as technical) drawing conclusions and implications of data analysis and leading on some courses of action.

▪ Can function as a central point and pillar to the team for queries and information on all matters relating to performance within the system with excellent communication skills. I can fully understand the capabilities of the platform so that planning, developing and deploying efficient and robust data extraction and transformation with my knowledge in SQL

▪ As part of my research project I have classified Diabetic Retinopathy with the help of Ensemble machine Learning techniques like SVN ,Gradient boosting and Random Forest (using Google Collab)

▪ I hone good organisational skills with my experience as a sessional academic to conduct a MSc Workshop for Engineering Students

▪ Been a peer mentor within the team as well as supervised projects, and driven it till closure with my expertise.

▪ Driven changes to improve existing systems in terms of quality, timeliness, and reliability of data with my immense experience in the testing industry with the various certifications in testing that will be an added advantage.

▪ Gained experience to run queries to extract and analyse data for reports using SQL Server or Postgre SQL.

▪ Ability to determine the analytical activities that will need to be turned into ongoing in some cases periodic solutions requiring new reporting schedule (BATCH JOBS) and not just a one-time report.

▪ As part of my role as test manager I have been responsible for the authorisation of new test projects and including meeting management daily status calls, agenda setting and capturing the minutes.

▪ Elected as Student Representative part of MSc Data Intelligence in Canterbury Christchurch University

▪ Nominated as part of Panel to interview Artificial Intelligence university Professor for the ETD (Engineering Technology and Design) department.

▪ Worked as a research scientist with Unitemps - UK for introductory programming applications, paper is submitted to the university.

▪ Worked as a panel member to analyse the research ideas and CV to allocate the funding for the student and staff.

▪ Reviewed the estimations provided by the staff and students for the research areas and provided my analysis effectively.

▪ Can critically analyse with key points to support the research or not to invest in a particular application with justification.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Sessional Academic

Canterbury Christ Church University
Canterbury, Kent
2023.10 - Current
  • Updated course materials, content and delivery.
  • Taught students important points to prepare for examinations and assessments.
  • Conducted and organised workshops for Msc Students on how to prepare research papers for assessments
  • Conducted the lab sessions for Date in Action module for the MSc students

IT project manager

Comorin
Bengaluru
2022.05 - 2024.08
  • Carefully analysing data like payroll employee details, position, job title and helping to implement HRMS in Comorin
  • Dealt with critical Data pertaining to employee off boarding (like resignation etc)
  • Analysis of historical data and mapped it with current application.
  • Helped to design and implement leave application.
  • Exceptional knowledge and usage of Microsoft Office, and other applications including MS Project, MS PowerPoint, MS Visio and Adobe Acrobat

Test manager

Mindtree Technology Limited
Bengaluru
2018.07 - 2021.11

Project #1 Jaguar Land Rover

Application : SVCRM (Modules :campaigns, Sales ,warranty,Leads)

  • Coordinated between onsite and offshore team to conduct cross training from Jaguar Land Rover to Mindtree .
  • Liaised with testing team and stakeholders to perform User Acceptance Testing (UAT) in order to fully comprehend and meet product quality specifications.
  • Expertly designed test approaches like test plan , test strategy documents
  • Strategically recruited and trained [17 team members] long-term test engineers .
  • Identified and communicated technical risks pre-release through test reports to achieve seamless product integration.
  • Experience to deliver in a Scrum/Agile Project for a Sprint length of 10 days.
  • Strong experience of testing processes like Test plan, test strategy and estimation in SAP Testing
  • Excellent Leadership skills managing an agile team of manual & automation testers.
  • Uploading test cases and test Documentation in JIRA

Project#2 Realogy

Application : Salesforce

  • Conducting retrospective meetings
  • Creating and maintaining the burn down chart
  • Conducting & attending Daily Scrum calls
  • Attending Daily Grooming Meeting with Product Owner and understanding the requirements
  • Uploading test cases and Scrum Documentation in Confluence

Test leader

Honeywell Technology Solutions
Bengaluru
2005.03 - 2017.07

Application:SAP -HCM,Sales and Distribution ,FICO,PM

  • Liaised with software development team to resolve software defects.
  • Used risk-based testing approach to determine test automation strategy based on risk scenarios.
  • Delivered high-quality SAP systems , compliant with software testing standards.
  • Adhered to best practices in software testings project management to support workflows.
  • Replicated user issues to identify and eliminate root causes.
  • Addressed problems critically, implementing optimal solutions to boost overall system performance.

Sales executive

Times Of India
Bengaluru
2004.06 - 2004.11
  • Coordination with schools to get all the schools into the NIE program (News Paper In Education)
  • Tracking the progress of schools with the program and giving the NIE books
  • Getting more schools within Bangalore engaged with NIE.

Education

Master of Science - Data Intelligence

Canterbury Christ Church University
Canterbury
2022.09 - 2023.09

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry , Botany and Zoology

Mount Carmel College
Bengaluru , India
2000.06 - 2004.04

Skills

    ISTQB Foundation Level Certification,

    Green Belt Six Sigma Certified,

    Certified Scrum Master Training –June 2016

    Human Capital Management with SAP -Germany - Certificate ID 0011505198-Aug 14th 2014

Languages

English
Intermediate

Timeline

Sessional Academic

Canterbury Christ Church University
2023.10 - Current

Master of Science - Data Intelligence

Canterbury Christ Church University
2022.09 - 2023.09

IT project manager

Comorin
2022.05 - 2024.08

Test manager

Mindtree Technology Limited
2018.07 - 2021.11

Test leader

Honeywell Technology Solutions
2005.03 - 2017.07

Sales executive

Times Of India
2004.06 - 2004.11

Bachelor of Science - Chemistry , Botany and Zoology

Mount Carmel College
2000.06 - 2004.04
Sandra Williams