Manasi Shinde
Project Manager
Mumbai,MH
Summary
Proactive and goal-oriented professional with experience in Project Management and Software Testing in Banking. Skilled in Agile and hybrid delivery, stakeholder management, and RAID governance. Known for reliability and adaptability, with swift capacity to learn quickly. Committed to leveraging these qualities to drive team success and contribute to organizational growth.
Overview
9
9
Certifications
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Project Manager - Associate
JPMorgan Chase
Mumbai, India
09.2025 - 04.2026
- Migration Delivery: Coordinated the project lifecycle for the JPMorgan's Trading & Risk Analysis platform migration , successfully transitioning critical OTC derivatives risk, valuation, and compliance reports from legacy on-premises infrastructure to a modern AWS architecture.
- Dual BA/PM Executor: Authored comprehensive requirements gathering, analysis and functional specifications for report schemas, while concurrently managing sprint timelines, tracking cross-functional dependencies across business, tech and operations team, and removing delivery blockers.
- UAT Management & Execution: Led the end-to-end User Acceptance Testing (UAT) cycle for trading & risk reports; defined test scenarios, managed defect backlogs, and closely collaborated with front-office stakeholders, trading desks, and operations to validate reporting accuracy.
- Data Reconciliation & Validation: Conducted rigorous data mapping and parallel run validations between legacy data engines and new cloud data stores to guarantee zero variance in high-value derivatives reporting.
- Cross-Functional Orchestration: Partnered across dedicated "value streams" - including data engineers, product owners, and trading desks - to align reporting outputs with strict internal data governance frameworks, and regulatory requirements.
- Status & Metric Reporting: Conducted weekly status meetings and developed clean, actionable progress dashboards and milestone trackers for senior leadership, highlighting deployment readiness, UAT sign-offs, and critical path risks.
Test Lead
Barclays
Pune
11.2021 - 11.2025
- Coordinated test leadership and scrum management, guiding collections payment journey rewrite with new React framework for digital banking customers.
- Performed test approach/strategy, test plan, test cases, DSRS, WSR, test automation, test execution, test reports, test closure reports.
- Led Agile delivery cycles, ensuring consistent coverage for business requirements through requirement traceability matrix.
- Facilitated agile ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives, to support timely value-focused delivery.
- Organized testing activities across multiple releases of Barclaycard Web Portal for corporate banking.
- Collaborated with product owners, technical architect, UI/UX, and engineering team to deliver functional walkthroughs and defect triages.
Test Engineer
Accenture - Virgin Media
Pune, India
11.2018 - 11.2021
- Actively contributed as a software tester in Agile environments, engaging in daily scrums, test scenario walkthrough, triage meetings, and design reviews.
- Led functional, sanity and regression, using tools like Selenium, TOSCA, Karate, and SOAP UI to automate and execute test cases across multiple applications.
- Worked closely with clients and development teams to define quality metrics, drive continuous quality improvements, and support post-implementation and warranty phases.
- Developed test data, validated ETL outputs, and conducted backend verification by writing complex SQL queries using SQL Developer, ensuring data consistency across systems.
- Coordinated User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities, managed test scope, tracked issue resolution, and supported go-live processes to ensure high-quality software delivery.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications
Cummins College of Engineering
Pune, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Project management
Agile methodology
Impact Analysis
Stakeholder communications
Requirement management
Quality assurance
Resource management
Project documentation & Reporting
Analytical thinking
Team collaboration
Scrum framework
RAID Governance
Certification
PMP Certification - In progress
Timeline
Project Manager - Associate
JPMorgan Chase
09.2025 - 04.2026
Test Lead
Barclays
11.2021 - 11.2025
Test Engineer
Accenture - Virgin Media
11.2018 - 11.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics & Telecommunications
Cummins College of Engineering
04.2001 -