Project Manager/Business Analyst

Project Manager/Business Analyst | May 2021 – Present

·       Create, manage, and track project and program plans with key deliverables and milestones.

·       Ensure timely and accurate Status Updates/Reports to Higher management.

·       Worked on multiple projects within the program and track the project milestones for internal as well as vendor resources.

·       Creating work breakdown structure and Microsoft smartsheets project plans

·       Work with release managers for milestone & environment mapping to restrict potential delays

·       Manage project Jira boards, sprint planning, backlog grooming, sprint reports

·       Conduct business process analysis/interviews with users and RnD teams and identify critical issues and gaps along with new requirements.

·       Creating/Reviewing the project initiation documents as per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) viz. User requirement specifications, Functional requirements, Business Process Risk Assessment Reports, Regulatory and Compliance/Validation Plan, and Business Impact Assessment as per GxP requirements

·       Work with compliance and privacy teams on approval on GxP documentation and processes

·       Set process for data access management and internal project algorithm run request for the data curation.

·       Create JIRA Story/Epic Boards, Requirements Documents, Presentation slides, prototypes, and visual flows for the team including users.

·       Generate traceability matrix, including scope change management and mitigation

·       Create Change requests and work with change management team on change request lifecycle including getting approvals from cross functional leads

·       Quarterly reviews of the system and related documentation

·       Veeva Documents management- Upload, review and routing workflows for project documentation

·       Define UAT plans for the actual users to follow and provide support during the UAT phase.

·       UAT artefact review and signoffs in HP ALM/QC and Jira

IT Validation Lead/Business Analyst | January 2019 – May 2021

·       Create and maintain project plans for the projects within the program.

·       Conduct business process analysis/interviews with RnD teams and identify critical issues and gaps.

·       Create functional decomposition of the application to identify vulnerable gaps

·       Develop a knowledge base for the testing teams including wireframes and prototypes

·       Creating/Reviewing project initiation documents as per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) viz. Data Privacy Plan, Business Process Risk Assessment Reports, Regulatory and Compliance/Validation Plan, Business Impact Assessment, Configuration Control Documents, User requirement specifications, Functional requirements

·       Creation & maintenance of the RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed) matrix

·       Creating/Reviewing/helping on Infrastructure/Architectural Design Specification, Functional & Technical Design Specification, Data Migration Plans, Installation Qualification (IQ), Operation Qualification (OQ) & Performance Qualification (PQ)

·       Assisting in test data creation for the test scenarios in the TDD environment

·       Creation & validation of Protocols/Scenarios/Cases, Defect/Deviation Reports, Traceability Matrix

·       Creating/Reviewing Manual & Automation artifacts like Test Estimation sheets, Test Plans, Test scenarios/conditions, Test data creation/setup, Test Script and Defects approvals in ALM/JIRA, Defect Management, Incident Management in the quality system, Test Summary report creation.

·       Creation, Support, and Review of Compliance Summary Report/Validation Summary report

·       A/B (Comparison) testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Production-documents management, coordination, and support

·       Create Story Boards, Requirements Documents, Presentation slides, and visual flows for development, testing, and support teams.

·       Ensure timely and accurate Status Updates/Reports to Higher management

·       Daily, Weekly, and Monthly status designing and reporting via Excel, Keynote/PowerPoint, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, and MS Project for status tracking.

IT SQA Manager/BA | December 2016 – May 2017 / June 2018 – December 2018

·       Conduct requirements understanding sessions with users and RnD teams

·       Create functional decomposition of the application to identify vulnerable gaps

·       Develop roadmaps for short-term and long-term projects in the pipeline.

·       Create and maintain project plans for the projects within the program

·       Develop knowledge base content for the testing teams (onsite and offshore)

·       Creation of wireframes and prototypes, participation in UX designs

·       Creating/Reviewing/helping on the project initiation documents as per Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) viz. Data Privacy Plan, Business Process Risk Assessment Reports, Regulatory and Compliance/Validation Plan, Business Impact Assessment, Configuration Control Documents, User requirement specifications, MoSCoW analysis, Functional requirements

·       Creation & maintenance of the RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, and Informed) matrix

·       Creating/Reviewing/helping on Infrastructure/Architectural Design Specification, Functional & Technical Design Specification, Data Migration Plans, Installation Qualification (IQ), Operation Qualification (OQ)

·       Creation & validation of Protocols/Scenarios/Cases, Defect/Deviation Reports, Traceability Matrix

·       Creating/Reviewing Manual & Automation artifacts like Test Estimation sheets, Test Plans, Test scenarios/conditions, Test data creation/setup, Test Script and Defects approvals in ALM/JIRA, Defect Management, Incident Management in the quality system, Test Summary report creation.

·       Creating risk-based sheets for the requirements and test scenarios

·       Executing test cases, defect logging, retesting, and closure

·       Creation, Support, and Review of Compliance Summary Report/Validation Summary report

·       Daily interaction with the stakeholders including users and business teams

·       Comparison testing, System Testing, System Integration Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Production-documents management, coordination, and support

·       Create Story Boards, Requirements Documents, Presentation slides, and visual flows for development, testing, and support teams.

·       Managing Risk based projects, testing sprints, and product backlogs along with product owners.

·       Delegating user stories, at times writing and modifying user stories.

·       Environment tracking for the programs and post-production support.

·       Ensure timely and accurate Status Updates/Reports to Higher management

·       Daily, Weekly, and Monthly status designing and reporting via Excel, PowerPoint, Confluence pages, Microsoft SharePoint, Slack, and MS Project for status tracking.

QA Lead/Business Analyst | May 2017 – May 2018

·       Chairing requirement-gathering working sessions with the end users/stakeholders.

·       Functional decomposition of the systems

·       Managing Risk based user stories as well as MoSCoW analyzed requirements

·       Creation of user stories, sprints, and product backlogs based on prioritization with product owners.

·       Testing requirements and tracking in Jira and Zephyr

·       Environment tracking for the programs and post-production support.

·       Managing several multi-geographical teams

·       Working on service of work, Change control notifications, and Book of work items.

·       Calculating key performance indicators, Creating monthly dashboards.

·       Identifying and delegating tasks for Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies along with timelines and mitigation action for the same.

·       Define and control the end-to-end test strategy (covering Smoke Testing, Dry runs, System Testing, System Integration Testing, Non-Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Automation Testing, and User Acceptance Testing) and agree on it with stakeholders from Business, IT programs management, and other areas (e.g., Risk/ Legal/ Compliance, etc.)

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