Sunita Patel seeks a challenging opportunity utilizing her skills in management, business, and information technology. She has over 7 years of experience in project management, quality assurance testing, and environment management at Bank of America and Accenture. Her experience includes overseeing test teams, managing projects from start to finish, and facilitating strategic transformation projects. She is proficient in Microsoft Office, Project, and Visio as well as test management tools.
2. OBJECTIVE To obtain a challenging growth opportunity with a solid, progressive company that will allow me to
utilize my skills in Management, Business and Information Technology.
COMPUTER SKILLS
& LANGUAGES
Operating Systems: Windows 95/98/2000/XP
Applications: MS Office, MS Outlook, MS Exchange, MS Office XP, Microsoft Project, Microsoft
Visio, Peregrine System, Quality Center
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Bank of America (May 2010-Oct 2012)
VP, Consultant, Systems Delivery – Software QA
• Leading the Card Solutions test team and overlooking the Initiatives for each release.
• Giving guidance to the test leads and assists with escalation matters.
• Facilitating team meetings and reviewing test execution status with the leads and leading the
defects triages/calls.
• Reviewing the project documents and defining any risks to deliver smooth test execution,
working with offshore team on a daily basis to communicate any status changes/issues to
report post execution.
• Taking on the team lead role within a year with this team.
• Leading all the team presentations with any upcoming changes with the CS application that
needs to be presented to the team.
• Manage large number of projects and overlook the end to end testing. Report all the issues
and assist with getting them resolved in a timely manner.
• Taking a new application and become a subject matter expert within few months and
overlook and execute projects for this new application.
Accenture Consultant at Bank of America Charlotte, NC (March 2005- April 2008)
Project Manager / Environments Management
• Environment Management (EM) regularly communicates to clients any changes and upcoming
code moves and production dates. EM also actively manages Sharepoint with recent code
migrations and which environment is pointed to each backend for both Model and California
regions. Additionally, EM assists in ongoing meetings with Client initiatives, Infrastructure
changes, and testing meetings to assist with environment related issues.
• Ensure successful execution of strategic transformation and performance improvement projects
spanning Bank Securities business, operations and technology lines of business.
• Work across organization boundaries to lead project team engaged in developing insight,
conducting independent analysis, and meeting coordinating with stakeholders to drive execution
of critical initiative.
• Provide change management consulting and assess impacts of project scope and implications
throughout project timeline, including development of strategies, readiness assessment,
development of training and communications.
• Develop mechanisms to continuously identify, assess and monitor internal and external project
risk for the projects.
• Facilitate, coordinate, and communicate all changes that impact the supported test environments
in order to maintain testing integrity, increase environment availability and avoid testing conflicts
within the environments
• Working with testing teams, infrastructure teams, component owners and LOBs to manage,
coordinate and communicate impacts to the lower-level test environments.
• Coordinating project releases and initiatives moving through testing pipelines in order to increase
environment availability and avoid testing conflicts.
• End to end project management - looking over the entire release from start to finish working with
the developers to ensure code was ready on the start of the project date, ensuring the
environments were in good working condition, and making sure the testing scripts were prepared
and testers were ready to test as soon as code was in the environments.
• Projects:
- Lean/Merlin Applications (Coordinating and facilitating all changes made in the
environments throughout the releases. Monitoring code migrations, working with the
support team to resolve any issues within the environments. Informing testing teams
of the code changes and the impacts on current testing, environment verification
from development teams before testing can resume and overall migration schedule
maintenance )
- OOS is a middleware technology between various client applications/systems
("clients") and the back end legacy bank data stores. An environment manager for
OOS is involved in OOS-related code/API management and migrations, and the
support of OOS environmental maintenance, and troubleshooting.
- Loan Solutions Application (overlooking the monthly releases from start to finish,