Pratiksha Parab

Enhanced project management skills by defining and presenting system solutions and timelines for business needs or technical problems.

• Prepared Use Cases, User Stories, developed flowcharts and diagrams to describe and lay out logical operational steps.
• Maintained Product backlogs for prioritizing, estimating and delivering quality product to end users.
• Proficient in creating Business Requirement Documents (BRD), User Process Guides, Software Release Notes
• Adept at handling Impact analysis, Live and UAT issue resolution, Help documents.
• Performed internal system acceptance to deliver well-tested enhancements and meet business requirements.
• Troubleshot incidents reported by end-users to schedule system changes and identify permanent solutions.
• Optimized system and platform performance capabilities in most efficient, practical way possible.
• Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
• Managed team of 3 employees, overseeing hiring, training, and professional growth of employees.
• Have working knowledge of agile (scrum) and waterfall methodologies

Projects (2019-Present):

External Resource Management System for Mercedes-Benz

- Currently working as a Project Lead - Customized, configured and implemented company's Vendor management tool (VSM) for managing client's Third party Resources right from inception.

Been a part of various releases at multiple stages as a Project Lead/Senior Analyst (Client engagements include Consumers Energy, USAA and Pepsi)

• Business Requirement Gathering from End User and Relevant External Sources
• Preparing and Reviewing Business Requirements(BRD), Functional Requirements (FRD),Software Release Notes, User Manuals and Use Cases with GUI design for Desktop and web-based applications
• Explaining Functional Requirements to Development Team and Quality Assurance (QA) Team through Meetings and Discussions, providing functional support during the development and testing phases
• Change Request management throughout Requirement life cycle
• Providing client support during UAT and resolving client's functional issues

Projects:

VANNYA App - An informative app for bird enthusiasts packed with facts, figures and pictures of various bird species around the world. Currently available on IOS and Android platforms

BEAWARE App - A Personal Safety App which provides features like Active Alerts, Geo Fencing and Smart Capture to ensure safety and security in case of emergency. Currently available on Android platform

Omkarmic - Ecommerce website to sell religious and spiritual products (Admin and User interface)

• Develop test plans, test cases and other documentations
• Write easy-to-follow bug reports and monitor their status
• Engineering test cases design / strategies / execution / reporting for design.
• Conducting functional tests and analysis of reported defects.
• Maintaining Work Audit and Test environment, key role in Issue Tracking, Issue analysis, team

Products:

Clearing and Settlement (CnS) - Application providing post trade facilities management solution.