Senior PLM Business Analyst & QA Leader

Snehal Brahmbhatt

Professional Summary

Over **+ years of experience as a Business Analyst / Functional Tester in enterprise and 10 years of experience as a PLM Business Analyst in enterprise PLM implementations.

Experience in Mergers & Acquisitions.

Expertise in Teamcenter, Siemens PLM, and Windchill, covering functional testing, regression, UAT, and system integration.

Skilled in analyzing business requirements and translating them into test plans, scripts, and traceability matrices.

Hands-on experience with test management tools including JIRA and TestRail for defect tracking and reporting.

ISTQB certified with deep understanding of QA standards, SDLC, STLC, and best practices.

Experienced in automated testing using Selenium and QTP (basic).

Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams including developers, SMEs, and business users.

Expert in UAT facilitation, functional and regression testing, and integration testing.

Proficient in Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies, participating in sprints, standups, and retrospectives.

Demonstrated ability to identify workflow gaps, improve processes, and deliver high-quality enterprise systems.

Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills for reporting and stakeholder engagement.

Develop Statement of Work (SOW) and contract documents to assist with the RFP.

Developing project budgets, schedules, work breakdown structure (WBS), resource requirements, and cost estimates and projections, Risk Management plan, Communication plan

Experience with project management for compliance and legal teams.

Responsible for various testing including system integration testing, UAT, Cutover testing and smoke testing of the projects.

Vulnerability Management, Patch Management, Penetration Testing, Software Supply Chain Security, Vendor Risk & Third-Party Security, Incident Response, Data Privacy, User Access Reviews, Insider Threat Management

Data Governance: Program development for the following governance capabilities: Data Residency, Data Inventory, Data Catalog, Data Lineage, Data Observability

Experience CCW on CCW-R to create new and to renew existing quotes for software subscriptions and service contracts and provides a single platform for both initial purchases and renewals.

Conduct periodic assessments and audits to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.

Partner with stakeholders to scale and optimize Compliance and Legal technical backlogs.

Create test plans, test strategy, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts.

Core Skills & Tools

PLM Tools: Teamcenter, Siemens PLM, Windchill (familiar)

Testing Tools: JIRA, TestRail, Selenium (basic), QTP (basic)

Testing Types: Functional, Regression, UAT, Integration, System

Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, SDLC, STLC

Documentation: Test Cases, Test Scripts, Defect Reports, Traceability Matrix

Collaboration Tools: Confluence, MS Teams, SharePoint

Languages/Tech: SQL (basic), XML

Professional Experience:

Cenlar FSB, PA (M & A project) Jun 2021 - Till date

Sr. BA Lead/Project Manager

Worked closely with Acquiring bank to collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop deal structures

Involved in decision making process to merge functional areas with same work domains for both the banks.

Documented requirements to target acquired and impacted functional groups and escalated them to the SMEs in both banks

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

Expertise in Teamcenter PLM and JIRA, covering functional testing, regression, UAT, and system integration.

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

Involved in creating and onboarding project teams, integrating them into the organization and providing a clear vision of the product while playing role of seasoned Scrum Master

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 successfully

Managed cross-functional projects involving Revalidation process for new applications as well as claims from Vendors and end users

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

Involved in designing traceability matrices mapping test cases to business requirements.

Validate product data integrity, BOM changes, and CAD integrations.

Actively involved in building and maintaining IT Business Partnerships and promoting teamwork to ensure uniformity in Compliance processes and Controls.

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

QSpiders, NY Jan 2016 – Mar 2021

Business Analyst/Scrum Master

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

Analyzed PLM business and functional requirements to design detailed test strategies and plans.

Identified gaps in functional workflows and proposed process improvements.

Coordinated with vendors and 3rd-party tool integrations for PLM enhancements.

Monitored KPIs and metrics to improve testing efficiency and quality coverage.

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

Implement projects by successfully coordinating with the cross functional 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

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

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

Leading 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 & have all the information needed to accomplish the testing tasks assigned

Gathered requirements from business SMEs and 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

Involved in defining Merger & Acquisition strategies and articulating acquisition business cases

Developed and maintained Excel workbooks and financial models to facilitate the evaluation of opportunities while making merger decisions

Worked with the independent and internal auditors and examiners in their quarterly and annual reviews and audits, coordinating accounting-related inquiries and requests

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 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

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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