Project Manager Program

Snehal Brahmbhatt

BA Lead/Project Lead/Program Manager

Professional Experience

Cenlar FSB, PA Jun 2021 - Till date

Sr. BA Lead/Project Manager

●Managing large scale projects while implementing standardization cross functional within various IT projects that involve documenting business requirements, managing the stakeholders and SMEs.

●Involved in translating business requirements to User Stories with Agile framework.

●Managed end-to-end integrations within a given project to ensure Data Points are mapped into actionable workflows

●Worked closely with Vendors to manage requirements customized as per users requests

●Involved in promoting and implementing best IT processes and practices within different projects

●Ensuring adherence to promote Quality Frameworks are successfully implemented within appropriate procedures and processes.

●Managed cross-functional projects involving multiple teams to ensure project progress and timelines are shared with appropriate resources, both internal and external

●Developed Use Cases based on the requirements as derived from Business stakeholders.

●Leading in providing End-to-End QA support for large, mid-sized and small initiatives across the board

●Actively involved in building and maintaining IT Business Partnerships and promoting Team-Work to ensure uniformity in Compliance processes and Controls.

Environment: JIRA, MS Azure, Snowflake, AWS ETL, Java APIs, Informatica

QSpiders, NY Jan 2016 – Mar 2021

Project Manager/Scrum Master

●Managing multiple projects by aligning the resources to get the projects delivered in timely manner

●Implement best practices in as per business standards expected by the external clients

●Implement projects by successfully coordinating with the crossfunctional IT teams: Logistics, eComm, eProcurement, HR, Finance, Product.

Environment: Quality Center, MS Tools, Java APIs, SAP, Workday HCM

MSC Direct, NY Jul 2010 – Dec 2015

QA Project Manager

●Involved in gathering data analytics for cloud-based Data Warehousing applications.

●Implement best practices in business requirements for Credit/Debit card processing modules

●Perform Audits on various on-going efforts to ensure procedures and IIA standards are followed

●Create Change Control documents upon successful completion of projects & address open issues via future enhancements

●Work closely with offshore teams & onsite developers to manage testing

Environment: Quality Center, MS Tools, Data warehousing applications, Java APIs, QTP

CABLEVISION, NY Dec 2009 – May 2010

Senior Manager

●Created the Documentations for the assigned projects to detail the deliverables, scope and timeline

●Lead IDA project for Release 6.3

●Documented & manipulated business requirements & escalate the requirements to QA & Dev teams

●Managed QA resources with assignments & status on daily basis

●Provided review sessions with the business & technical resources & updated as necessary

●Reviewed the test scripts documented by peer

●Worked closely with Development teams of multiple platforms to get the issues fixed

Environment: Quality Center, MS Tools, Mainframe applications, Java APIs

CNO Financial Group, IN May 2009 – Nov 2009

Sr. QA Manager – LTC Conversion Milestone 5/6

●Managed a team comprised of UATesters to make sure they are able to perform their daily testing activities & had all the information needed to accomplish the testing tasks assigned

●Gathered requirements from business SMEs an document the requirements in Caliber

●Uploaded & baseline the Caliber Requirements into Quality Control tool

●Documented Use Cases & UI Functional documents based off of Caliber Requirements

●Managed a project plan to assemble & keep track of timelines, assignments & resources

●Escalated the project progress, issues, road blocks to the program management

●Performed functional testing for data conversion by sending data from front end & querying database by writing SQL queries

Environment: Caliber RM, Quality Center, MS project, MS Visio, Mainframe applications, Web based applications built on Java

LIBERTY MUTUAL, IN Apr 2004 – May 2009

Sr. Project Manager/UAT Coordinator/BA/QA Lead

●Attended reviews for requirement documents to understand the new enhancements.

●Created modular test scripts and called them within the parent test scripts to avoid creating and executing the redundant automation.

●Generated reports using Rational Test Manager tool upon execution of regression automation suites.

●Worked on multiple projects with different roles and responsibilities assigned to me

Environment: Rational Robot, Clearcase, HP Quality Center,TestManager, ReqPro, ClearQuest, Quantify, Test Factory, DBVisualiser, Mainframe, Citrix, LoadRunner

SALLIEMAE, IN Dec 2002 – Mar 2004

QA Lead Consultant

Project: Laureate

Laureate is an online web application which facilitates the web users to apply for the education loans.

●Executed existing test plans manually.

●Wrote test plan for ‘Private Credit Applications’ – borrower, co-borrower and school flows.

●Smoke tests and integration tests.

●Tested the cross-team functionalities by submitting the application via Laureate and checking it on Class [mainframe].

●Tested the whole system by submitting the application via web, VB as well as directly from mainframe servers.

●Performance testing and load testing by entering multiple apps. from the front-end at one time.

●Created test summary reports which describe the testing efforts and risk involved in a particular project.

●Production testing.

●Assisted UAT testers with preparing the test bed required for UAT testing prior to & during execution.

●Entered the new issues using PVCS Tracker.

Environment: Java, Java server, DB2, IBM Mainframe, VB, PVCS Tracker

NASDAQ, CT Feb 2002 – Nov 2002

Sr. Automation Consultant

Project: SelectNet

●Executed existing test plans manually.

●Regression test of the ‘SelectNet’ application and unit, integration as well as system testing of ‘LQTR’ application.

●Performed unit testing of modules by executing orders, canceling/replacing them and killing the orders.

●Documented new test plans as per business and system requirements.

●Entered data (orders) from the front-end and queried for the same entered orders into ‘TANDEM’, for testing data synchronization.

●Tested the whole application manually and did system testing..

Environment: Tandem, WinRunner (HP Quality Center), JavaWebserver, Load Runner, Java, Window NT, VB, Informatica, PVCS Tracker, Oracle

CITICORP, NJ Jul 2001 – Jan 2002

Sr. QA Consultant

Project: CES – Citibank Escrow Services

●Performed manual testing of all the three modules and automation of ‘REGISTRATION’ module.

●Designed the testing process using RUP.

●Unit testing, integration testing, and system testing.

●Planned, designed, developed, executed and maintained test scripts based on the project requirements.

●Developed and maintained manual test plans using Test Director for front-end testing.

●Back-end testing, stress testing, load testing, performance testing using WinRunner (HP Quality Center) and Load Runner.

●Created reports and logs for special testing matrix.

Environment: SQARobot, Rational Rose, LoadRunner, 2001, C++, Java, UNIX, Window NT, VB VBScript, Informatica, PowerBuilder, Excel (for tracking and reporting the Issues), DB2

JP MORGAN, NYC Jun 2000 – Jun 2001

QA Consultant

Project: Pension Plans, FIX protocols, Fixed Income

●Created a detailed test plan as per system requirement.

●Solely responsible for testing the complete system using different methodologies.

●Developed manual and automated test scripts using WinRunner (HP Quality Center).

●Performed screen navigation test to ensure that the links were established as per the documentation provided.

●Used MS-Access as a bug-tracker to report the issues and track them, as they are open/closed/fixed/reopen/assigned.

●Extensively used WinRunner (HP Quality Center), LoadRunner for Regression, Performance and functional testing.

●Communicated the issues with the team members from time to time to keep track of an AUT.

●Tested the migration of the application supported via MS Excel to a web based tool.

●Tracked the defects opened in the process of QA testing.

●Involved in analyzing pension plan data and performing calculations to determine benefits eligibility, vesting, and retirement benefits based on plan rules and regulations.

●Assisted in the preparation and maintenance of pension plan documents, including plan amendments, summary plan descriptions, and benefit statements.

●Performed interpretation for pension plan policies, procedures, and legal requirements to ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.

●Collaborated with internal teams and external vendors to resolve pension-related issues and provide guidance on plan design and administration.

●Conducted audits and reconciliations of pension plan data to identify discrepancies and ensure accurate record-keeping.

Environment: WinRunner (HP Quality Center), LoadRunner, Java, Java Beans, UNIX (Solaris), Windows NT, PowerBuilder, WISQL, MS-Access (for the Bug Tracking database), Clearcase

Technical Experience

Languages: C++, JAVA (JDK 1.2), JavaScript, Perl, SQL, JCL

Servers: JFC, JDBC, Java Web Server

GUI: VC++, VB, PB

RDBMS: Oracle, DB2, Sybase

Cloud Technologies: MS Azure, IBM Cloud, SaaS

Data Warehousing: Informatica

Tools: Rational, Mercury: WinRunner (HP Quality Center), LoadRunner, Seque, JIRA

Operating Systems: Windows 95/98, Windows NT, UNIX

Hardware: Tandem, Mainframe, Client Server Stations

Professional Education

MBA - Finance – University of Dayton

Masters in Computers – Aptech Computer Education, India

Bachelors of Science in Mathematics - Gujarat University, India

Diploma in Human Resources - IGNOU, India

Diploma in Business Analysis – IGNOU, India

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