Project Manager

Manisha Bansal

Email: er_manishatech@yahoo.co.in             Wilhelm-Leuschner Strasse-29
HP: +49-15142473740            Frankfurt (am) Main-60329        
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A customer focussed, deadline driven Project Manager with 16 years of experience providing cradle-to-grave management over large-scale IT implementations. Excel at managing between business and technical areas to achieve on-time, on-budget and on-spec project completions.
Professional Summary
Project Planning for setting up the complex infrastructure including Oracle engineered systems, Exadatas and Backup appliances ZFS in Data center, saving costs upto 35%
Account for complete project lifecycle from inception to closure
Managed project plans, daily and weekly status meetings as well as updates to Management
Executed the procurement of required hardware and software within project scope guidelines
Develop and manage relationships with vendors in support of staff augmentation and systems support such as Oracle, HP, Tekanet and SanDisk
Excellent communication skills working with senior management, technical/non technical staff and vendor management
Experience managing technical staff, offshore resources and coordinating development activities with cross functional teams
Over all governance and integration ensuring documentation in DB Configuration tools like dbSymphony, SNOW
Well versed with a project implementation life cycle.
Instrumental in successful implementation of various projects within the banks worked till date
Proficient in customizing existing business practices, workflows, activities and deliverables
Exceptional customer oriented skills with an eye to detail and quality conformance
Identify Risk and Mitigation
Coordination with Onsite Business team at different geographical locations for Requirement Analysis, Product demonstration, Change request
Involved in Test Planning,Test Preparation,Test Execution,Issue Resolution & Report generation
Strong experience in conducting  System Integration Testing & User Acceptance Testing
Expertise in designing and developing Test Plans and Test Cases
Experience in co-coordinating with business and IT across all phases of SDLC
Defect management and Tracking using Bugzilla, SilkRadar, JIRA and Quality Center
Reviewing the Client Requirements and Business Specifications, impact analysis and feasibility

Professional experience:
Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt (am) Main, Sr. Project Manager (May 2016 till June 2019)
Project Manager (May 2014 till May 2016)
Technical Summary
Project Management: MS Project, Clarity
Management Tools:  DBServiceNow, RFS, SRM
Others: Project Lifecycle Management, System Migrations, Requirements Definition&Analysis, Project Scheduling,Budgeting & Cost Controls, Team Building & Leadership, Quality Assurance
Business Applications: Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Project
Responsibilities:
Manage all aspects of technical projects from initiation through to delivery
Planning the hardware requirements for the UNIX, Wintel, Oracle Servers
Setup of new PRD, UAT, SIT & DEV environments, containing complex infrastructure including Exadatas, Storage appliances, UNIX/Wintel servers and Infiniband network (approx. 340 new CIs and 100 existing CIs)
Ordering the hardware with various vendors like Oracle, HP and SanDisk
Manage operations of the IT group including downtime, reporting service levels
Planning the placement of the hardware in Datacenter with Facilities team
Interactions with local business and Service Delivery units
Managed actively risks and issues, have mitigating measures in place and provide timely updates to stakeholders
Responsible to gather, integrate and analyse information to find the root cause of the  problems and implement appropriate solutions
Preparation/follow-up execution of required paper work for different tools for different tasks such as ServiceNOW, RFSs, decoms, maintenance & enhancements of hardware etc
Keeping an up-to-date overview of the program planning,milestones,resource planning etc.
Projects: SEPA BAFIR, Treasury, PhotoTAN:Database migration, StRIDe- Strategic Reporting & Information Delivery, TDW-Transaction Datawarehouse, eSpear

Optimum Solutions (Client: Standard Chartered Bank, Singapore),
Senior Test Lead/Business Analyst (Nov 2009 till Mar 2014)
Technical Summary
Automation Tools: Mercury QTP9.2
Test Management Tools:  Mercury Quality Center 10.0, 9.0/Test Director 8.0,JIRA
Database:  SQL, Oracle 8i
Others: Murex, SYN, MSERV, Hurricane, TCAS, BPMS, Assassin, OMGEO ALERT, Fidessa
Business Applications: Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Responsibilities:
Workflow testing for the clearing/de-clearing of the NDF products from Hurricane/TCAS to Murex with SGX, HKEX & LCH via MSERV
Worked with the product team to understand the product and gave demos to stakeholders
Trade Booking & market operation handling in Murex, Fidessa, SYN
Worked with the business for requirements analysis
Validation of the TLM Recons
Hands on testing in the Settlement engine for the Cash Equity products across markets
Involved in Complete Trade life cycle through multiple interface applications
Involved in all requirement gathering and impact analysis activities
Assisted with user testing of systems, developing & maintaining quality procedures
In Depth understanding of AS-IS and TO-BE business processes and experience in converting these requirements into technical specifications for preparing test plans
Expertise in writing and implementing Test scenarios, Test cases, System testing, Regression testing and maintaining Traceability Matrices for baseline documents
Defect Management using Quality Center and JIRA
Test reporting and triage meetings with delivery groups
Risk management and process improvement
Training on Quality Center to Business and Development Team
Liaise with stakeholders and business groups across the geographies
End of day processing, General ledger file generations etc
Verification of Customer Data migration from SCI to Assassin to SYN
Projects: NDF Clearing –SGX, LCH and HKEX, Swift2013, NSE Integration, House Clearing Automation – HKEX, SYN, Sophis-Finance Issues, Brazil Integration Project, GMR

Fidelity India Pvt. Ltd. Gurgaon, India, Senior Test Analyst (Dec 2007 – Nov 2009)
Technical Summary
Test Management Tools:  Mercury Quality Center 9.0/Test Director 8.0, JIRA, Bugzilla
Database:  SQL, Oracle 8i
Mainframe:  AS400
Others: FileNet, Kofax Ascent Capture, GFAS, BPM, MS Excel
Business Applications: Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Responsibilities:
Test Plan and Test Strategy creation using TestDirector/Quality Center
Identified, investigated and documented business processes and Use Case Scenarios
Wrote Functional Specifications for the BPMS project
System Integration testing and facilitated User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Team Management and GFAS testing
Performed Gap Analysis to check the compatibility of the existing system infrastructure with the new business requirements
Analyzed business requirements and segregated them into high level and low level Use Cases, Activity and Sequence Diagrams
Involved in reviewing test plans and test cases and ensuring test cases reflect user needs
Conducted review sessions with QA and development teams for status and client reporting
Performed regression testing
Updating the requirements and defect status in accordance with the project status in QC
Test case Execution, Defect Management using Bugzilla, Quality Center & JIRA
Performed Smoke Testing
Projects: Business Process Management Enablement, FileNet Upgrade 4.0


Headstrong India Pvt. Ltd. Noida, India (Client: Fidelity Investments, Gurgaon),
Consultant (Dec 2005 – Dec 2007)
Quark Media House India Pvt Ltd. Mohali, India, Technical Engineer (Aug 2003 – Dec 2005)
Technical Summary
Test Management Tools:  Silk Radar2.1
Others: Quark Express, Adobe Photoshop, Deal placement in Mercury
Business Applications: Microsoft Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Responsibilities:
Analyzed and translated conceptual requirements, procedures and issues into functional specifications comprehensible to developers and solution architects
Test Plan and Test case creation
Defect management using Silk Radar
Testing of the QuarkXPress 5.x, 6.x on Macintosh, Windows operating system
Rigorous Beta testing of Quark License Administrator & Quark Xpress
Determined traceability and dependability between the requirements
Acted as a liaison between development team and end-users during various SDLC phases

Triveni Enterprises, Chandigarh, India, Software Engineer (Jul 2002 – Aug 2003)
     Responsibilities:
Developed Release Notes, User Manual and Training Manual for the project
Coordinating and scheduling changes to database based on requirements
Interaction with business team on a daily basis to resolve any technical / data quality issues and requirement enhancement

Certifications:
ISTQB certification for Foundation Level in Software Testing, (ITB-CTFL - 004650)
Attended PMP training in Chandigarh, India

Educational Details:
Bachelor of Technology (Computer Science) Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (1998-2002)
Senior secondary Level Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi (1996-1998)
Secondary Level  Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi (1995-1996)

Languages:
English - Fluent Level
German - Conversational Level


I hereby declare that the information stated above is true to the best of my knowledge.
Manisha Bansal