Eliza Jones PMP, CSM

Experience

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  Walmart

  Aug 2006 - now

  • Headship in the stakeholder engagement to identify best sourcing strategies for area-wide projects, as well as to generate savings from various services.• Use of keen eye for detail in identifying and managing scope, risks, resources, budget, and timelines for various sourcing projects focused on different business areas, including energy, facilities maintenance, transportation, and third-party sourcing.• Close evaluation of documentation and following up for sign-off and approval to maintain relationship with suppliers.• Strategic management of Indirect Spent Management area Community Service Committee, accountable for researching and identifying non-profit organizations to provide assistance, as well as organizing community service activities for the area for the current year.• Accomplishment of various functions such as writing reports and documents on project life cycle to aid in stakeholder decision making.• Go-to-person in creating and installing KPI dashboard for the Facilities Maintenance Division.• Coaching of teams and cross-functional areas on sourcing optimization tool Trade Extensions.• Commendation for attaining 39% savings in Fiscal Year 2018 by leading sourcing projects; as well as for creating and applying project charter and project scope template that standardized project management best practices in area. Show less • Instrumental role in the implementation of $1.1B company-wide projects that made positive impact to 1,300,000 associates and generated 99.9% success rate through Agile project methodology.• Partnership with project managers in defining needs, planning timeline and budget.• Offering of support and suggestions on UAT test strategy, test plans, test cases, resource needs, and budget required from QA to ensure proper coverage.• Fulfillment of tasks such as administering approximately two to four onsite resources; supervising numerous offshore teams with more than 10 testers; and instituting best test strategies for each project.• Completion of administrative functions such as facilitating status calls; recording minutes of meetings; following up on action items; and guaranteeing proper escalation procedures were followed.• Recognition for skills in identifying risks, creating mitigation plan, managing risks through the life cycle of the project, as well as determining and handling conflict that arise among cross-functional teams during the project.• Completion of comprehensive evaluation and working with Development and QA teams in devising best automating strategy, subsequently decreasing manual testing efforts by almost 65%. Show less • Tactical management of companywide projects in human resources systems in adherence to Agile methodology.• Employment of skills in evaluating and providing feedback on documents, such as test plans and strategy.• Boosting of efficiencies by documenting test plan strategy, User Acceptance Testing strategy, QA risks; delivering release statements to upper management and stakeholders; and influencing stakeholders on UAT test plan, test cases, and overall testing plan.• Full accountability in the development and implementation of standards for the QA area; presented information to different QA teams and influence cross functional areas including Customer Planning and Applications Development to implement and follow these standards.• Driving force behind the successful planning of QA Summit in 2016; reduction of execution time by 44% through adept leadership in automation strategy; and attainment of production defect leakage less than 4%. Show less • Spearheading of a team of five testers, delegating tasks of different teams, including Infrastructure, Development, and QA teams.• Coordination with project managers in providing staffing estimates to accomplish resources needed by QA.• Partnership with business analyst from different areas on requirements gathering, as well as stakeholders on UAT to explain requirements, test plan and gain sign off from customers.• Oversight to different work streams on different projects, such as global recruiting system and logistics HR solutions. Show less • Pivotal role in leading the United States and Canada DST project by cooperating with POS, Infrastructure and Global Time and Attendance teams; coordinating with customers for US and Canada; implementing solutions for updates on web-based applications; as well as using ASP.NET in developing enhancements to web-based application.• Mentorship to business analysts and stakeholders on HPQC usage for requirements gathering and user acceptance testing.• Key contribution in minimizing testing execution time by 33% and increased testing coverage by 10%.• Recognition for creating and implementing QA testing strategy template in QA area; as well as for installing enhancements to the Time and Attendance IVR system within specified deadline and budget. Show less

  • Sr. Manager II

    May 2021 - now

  • Sr. Manager I

    May 2018 - May 2021

  • Project Manager

    Sept 2016 - May 2018

  • Quality Assurance Project Leader, Walmart Information Systems Division

    Jun 2015 - Sept 2016

  • Software Quality Assurance Senior Analyst, Information Systems Division

    Aug 2010 - Jun 2015

  • Engineer–Software Quality Assurance, Information Systems Division

    Oct 2009 - Aug 2010

  • Software Quality Assurance Analyst, Information Systems Division

    Oct 2009 - Aug 2010

  • Programmer, Information Systems Division

    Aug 2006 - Oct 2009