Lesly Cerro

Project Management specialist with 16 years of experience managing projects and leading distributed and cross-functional teams, developing and maintaining software products.

Certified as a project management professional, scrum master and functional tester. 

Natural born leader, I could be in charge in strategic planning processes, project management, requirements engineering, process design, quality assurance activities, pre-sales or trainings.

Key Skills:  quality assurance, resource management, team building, self-management, mentoring and coaching.

• Softesting 2021 (Actually)

Projects and services leader, working with very diverse clients leading quality assurance efforts for multiple software projects, ensuring adherence to quality standards and best practices.

Some of my tasks are: forecasting, billing, client relationships, pre-sales, operations lead, strategic planning.

• Virtual S.A Aug. 2020 – Dec. 2020

Software Development Project Management for governmental clients, leading a cross functional team composed of developers, QA analysts, designers, product owner and architect. 

• H&G Consultores. March 2018 – Jul. 2020

Custom Software Development Project Management for Medellin’s City Hall, leading a cross functional team composed of developers, QA analysts, designers, product owner and architect. 

• M2 Arquitectura. Aug. 2017 – Dec. 2017

Consulting in the definition and documentation of gym setup and maintenance processes.

• Ingeneo S.A. Nov. 2013 – Apr. 2017

Software Development Project Management and IT platform support for several clients in diverse industries, using waterfall and SCRUM methodologies.

• Todo 1. Nov. 2009 – Nov. 2013

Software Development Project Manager for Bancolombia’s web and mobile products.

• SQA S.A Oct. 2005 – Nov. 2009

Functional Tests Analyst until June 2006 and Special Projects Coordinator (QA setup processes) and Trainings (in topics related to software quality assurance) from this point ahead.

• Choucair Testing Feb. 2005 – Oct. 2005

Functional Tester.

• Clínica Bolivariana 2003- Dec. 2004

Systems Analyst with functions such as end user support, database support and application updates.

As a Professor

• Tecnológico Cedesistemas. 2010 to 2019

Courses on Project Management, QA, CMMI and Requirements Engineering. 

• ESFE. 2017 to 2018.

Workshops and Trainings on Excel and Project related topics.

• H & G Consultores. 2016

Workshops on Software QA.

Team empowerment workshops under SCRUM methodology.

• Qipux Software. 2015

Analysts preparation for ISTQB certification.

• Universidad EAFIT. 2014

Software Verification and Validation Module in Continuing Education Center.

• Fundación Universitaria María Cano. 2003 - 2004

Professor of Data Structures and General Systems Theory. 

Formal Education

• Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. Project Management Specialist. 2005
• Universidad EAFIT. Systems Engineer. 2002

Certifications

• Project Management Professional Certification. 2013

By Project Management Institute.

• Scrum Master Certification. 2015

By Scrum Agile Institute.

• Certified Tester Foundation Level. 2008

By ISTQB Institute.