Ahmed Manejwala

Phone: 667-289-6478 Email: QA.IT.Ahmed@gmail.com

Mr. Manejwala is a detail-oriented professional who operated under an Active

Secret Clearance and has over twelve years of experience in the field of software
Quality Assurance, Business Analysis, Software Testing, Customer Acquisition
and Project Management in IT services. His experience includes federal and state
government solutions, Health Care, child welfare, financial and mortgage industries
on various platforms and environments. Mr. Manejwala is proficient in gathering,
analyzing, and writing detailed requirements and user stories, managing, and
leading teams, writing, and executing test plans, designing test cases and test
procedures, preparing test data, setting up test environments, creating defect
documentations, requirement traceability matrix and test summary reports.
Mr. Manejwala has excellent verbal and written communication skills and is
experienced in leading and managing client and vendor resources, staffing
projects, managing technical personnel, and performing back office programmatic
support in addition to procurement and proposal efforts. He has also functional
project tasks supporting Release Management, Requirements Management and
Analysis, Software testing and Quality Management work streams. As a Project
Manager, he has managed mid to large size engagements from three to ten people
where he quickly learned to integrate new concepts with past experience to
address client needs.

Education:
Bachelor of Science, Accounting
Goldey Beacom College, Wilmington, DE

Towson University, Towson, MD

Business Analyst/Scrum Master, Sparksoft Corporation, Columbia, MD

Client CMS
Application – MIDAS (Multidimensional Insurance Data Analytics System)
09/2021 – Present
 Supported State and Federal Healthcare applications in collaboration with many
outside vendors and stakeholders.
 As a MIDAS Scrum Technical Lead, I provided technical direction to the team and
was responsible for ensuring quality technical solutions are being delivered by the
scrum team.
 As a technical lead I utilized more than 50% of my time to user stories and feature
development.
 As a technical lead I utilized 50% of my time to review code, supporting the product
owners, and assisting other developers and software engineers in completing their
tasks.
 Involve in developmental activities of User Stories.
 Develop team technical strengths and improve weaknesses.
 Liaising with team members, management, and clients to ensure projects are
completed to standard.
  When the scrum team is evaluating various options/solutions make the final decision
on approach.
 Respond to technical blockers raised by the team.
 Primary liaison between MIDAS architecture team and the scrum team
 Assist other developers and engineers with completing their tasks
 Ensure technical solutions follow best practices and align with the MIDAS
Architecture
 Support the Product Owners in customer meetings by providing technical expertise
 Peer reviews all code developed by the team
 Approve code readiness for the next environment (including production ready)
o E.g. if the code is currently in development approve moving the code to test
 Review new technical solutions prior to coding beginning
 Review testing approach to ensure it meets best practices and adheres to MIDAS
standards
 Attend meetings with Product Owners on backlog grooming to ensure technical
requirements are understood.
 Meet with MIDAS architecture and other technical leads to maintain technical
standards and best practices
Senior Analyst, American Home Energy Corporation, College Park, MD
05/2019- 09/2021
 Analyzed, defined, and managed stakeholder needs and helped develop project plans
and manage project scope.
 Prepared Business Requirement Documents (BRD) and attended and conducted
meetings and workshops to discuss and document high-level requirements.
 Created workflow scenarios, designed new process flows, documented the business
process, various business scenarios, and activities of the business from the conceptual
to the procedural level. 
 Created Process Flow Diagrams, Use Case Diagrams, and Class Diagrams using
Microsoft Visio.
 Performed GAP Analysis of system rules, system, system process flows, user
administration, and requirements.
 Ensured that all artifacts were complied with corporate SDLC policies and guidelines.
 Worked closely with the stakeholders to analyze complex business processes and
business requirements.
 Worked closely with project manager, stakeholders, and business analysts to identify
risk analysis.
 Tracked defects and facilitated defect review meetings with team leads.
 Maintained standard documentation to comply with CMMI Standards.
 Attended weekly status meetings with development team, QA manager, and created
notes for meeting-minutes.

Senior Analyst, Sungard Financial Systems - SunGard K-12 Education Software

03/2016 – 05/2019
 Analyze system specifications, business requirements for full understanding of the
project to comply with corporate rules and regulations.
 Define, estimate and schedule business analysis work plan and tasks.
 Conduct sprint planning based on new and backlogged requirements. Lead daily stand
ups for update in the absence of the scrum master.
 Gather requirements and prepare General System Design and Detailed System Design
documents by interviewing Subject Matter Expert and End-Users
 Conduct GAP Analysis to understand the deficiency of the existing application.
 Work with the Project Manager in the development of weekly and monthly status
reports
 Involve in planning, prioritization, change management, and closeout of the project.
 Assign tasks among development team: Monitored and tracked progress of projects
following agile methodology.
 Author Business Requirements Document with project team(s). Extracted, discussed,
and refined business requirements from business users and SMEs as well as interface
with business owners and SMEs to finalize Activity Diagrams.
 Facilitate defect review meetings involving all stakeholders to review defects, identify
severities, set priorities as per client requirements, and ensuring that accuracy and
deadlines are met.
 Facilitate meetings with customers to gather and document requirements and explore
potential solutions.
 Plan, design, and recommend business processes to improve and support business
activities.
 Capture quality attributes, external/internal constraints, and functional/non- functional
requirements to prepare project related presentations and provide reports to
management.
 Suggest measures and recommendations to improve the current application
performance.
 Interact with clients, sponsors & SMEs to determine, document, & obtain signoffs on
requirements.
 Work with business teams to understand the requirements and needs of the potential
customers and the target market.
 Assist with project planning, requirements development, and change management
activities.
 Understands PMBOK standards, best practices terminologies and guidelines to ensure
client demands are met.

Deloitte
Senior Consultant, US Department of Homeland Security - Homeland Security
Information Network, Washington DC 03//2015 – 03//2016
Role: Sr. Requirements Lead
 Lead Requirements support tasked to gather and document all requirements for the
Homeland Security Information Network application.
 Proficient in leading and managing a team of five Business Technology Analyst as
part of a larger government IT Program.
 Conducted Performance Evaluation for team members.
 Conduct Bi-weekly touchpoints with team members to ensure deliverables are being
met.
 Provide resource re-allocation to adjust to project needs.
 Reported directly to Executive Client Director and Project Manager with team 's
status reports and priorities.
 Operated as key liaison personnel for all client and stakeholder communications.
 Responsible for owning task orders for multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-
moving Agile Development methodology.
 Conduct Backlog review meetings to assist clients with prioritizing
requirements for upcoming releases.
 Facilitate requirement gathering meetings and JAD sessions to document all client
demands for upcoming releases.
 Operate as a liaison for all stakeholders and developers.
 Manage team members to work side by side with testers and developers during
development sprint cycles to ensure there is a clear understanding about
requirements.
 Document clear, precise, and unambiguous user stories and acceptance criteria.
 Document and present training demos for stakeholders on new and proposed
functional changes to the application.
 Results-oriented, able to balance multiple responsibilities, consistently delivering
results on time.
 Proficient in developing Visio process Flows to articulate client demands of
complicated systems.
 Implemented an Application Lifecycle Management tool (JIRA) to assist the entire
program in task management and Process flow.
 Trained internal staff with how to use JIRA Task management tool while
operating as in-house systems administrator.
 Adept at leading by example, marshalling resources, and creating a professional
atmosphere to accomplish objectives.
 Extensive experience with SharePoint data storage.
 Presented status reports at executive high level client meetings on a weekly basis.
 Successfully coached different teams while extending the network to gain more
clientele by emphasizing achievements and accomplishments as a head coach.

Senior Consultant, US Coast Guard, Washington DC

11/2014 - 02/2015
Role: PMO Lead
 Primary PMO resource for all systems documentation and testing support.
 Led the planning and requirements phases of key data initiatives.
 Responsible for leading a team of four analysts.
 Conducted Peer reviews and quality checks for team of analysts.
 Established processes and procedures for gathering requirements and testing a
detailed and data intensive Coast Guard Payroll System.
 Trained end-users on defect life cycle and documentation of test cases.
 Responsible for developing a project plan and providing status reports on
progress of requirements intake, development status and testing process.
  Ensured all client requirements were precisely gathered, understood, and
communicated to the development team.
 Actively coordinate, support, and facilitate senior level working groups on a
regular weekly basis.
 Coordinate across the US Coast Guard stakeholder groups to develop IT
Strategy Maps depicting the way ahead for the Coast Guard IT portfolio.
 Provided expertise in business case development, gap analysis, requirements
gathering, and process mapping and methodology.

Senior Consultant, United States Postal Service, Washington, DC

11/2013- 80/2014
Role: Program Release Manager
 Primary Point of Contact for IT Portfolio Manager to provide Cost and
Procurement support to provide financial tracking and project updates for the
overall client accounts.
 Managed a team of six consultants to operate as PMO support.
 Owned the entire CCB process. Coordinated and facilitated CCB meetings with
stakeholders on a weekly basis.
 Conducted peer review sessions and monthly feedback reports for junior staff.
 Expert in Tracking and Managing the Requirements developed Requirement
Traceability Matrix (RTM) that controls numerous artifacts produced by the teams
across the deliverables for a project.
 Emphasis on requirements gathering through research, formal-informal sessions,
JRP sessions and JAD sessions with SMEs (subject matter experts), Teams,
Stakeholders, and end users.
 Showcased supreme ability to ask the right questions to ensure client demands were
met.
 Financial Program Management Subject Matter Expert responsible for IT
procurement requests, financial budgeting, Cash Flow documentation; Statement of
Work (SOW) creation; vendor-related technical reviews, and Rough Order of
Magnitude (ROM) tracking and reporting for the overall portfolio.
 Lead responsible for the Integrated Project Plan (IPP), monthly reports, and
Tableau analytic updates for weekly status reporting to executive leadership.
 Release Manager providing project control work stream duties within the Project
Management Office (PMO), which include requirements management, defect
management, Change Control processes, coordinating and facilitating meetings,
project scheduling, data analytics, and executive reporting.

Systems Development Requirements Specialist, Xerox Inc. State of MD Dept. of

Human Resources, Child Welfare application, Children's Electronic Social
Service Information Exchange
05/2011-07/2013
Role:
 Led client meetings to gather clear and precise requirements, proceeded to act as a
liaison during all testing efforts with an end user capacity.
 Fully grasp all requirements under test for MD' s Children Electronic Social
Service Information Exchange (MD CHESSIE).
 Strong experience with Scrum methodology and well versed in writing user stories.
  Acquired a thorough understanding of Business rules with little training and
showed an ability to 'Hit-the-Ground-Running'
 Developed Design Specification Documents and provide feedback using the
Deliverable Review Response Form for team members.
 Fascinated requirement gathering meetings with Client and Stakeholders to
provide input in gathering requirements.
 Fascinated long JAD sessions to precisely gather functional and system
requirements for high level stakeholders and Product Owners.
 Promoted in-depth training for clients to ensure all requirement goals were met,
 Perform User Acceptance Testing with detailed and in-depth scenarios in a complex
Client server Application.
 Successfully engages in multiple initiatives simultaneously.
 Ran weekly Project Status Meetings with Development Team, PM, Director, QA
Manager, and worked closely to define Test Scope, Gap Analysis, Risk, and
Dependency.
 Peer review test cases and test plans.
 Participated in daily progress meeting to commU11icate detailed statuses of
projects under test.
 Worked closely with testers, business owners, developers and SMEs to assist in
project completion to maintain deadlines.
 Worked as liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams.
 Lead all level II UAT testing efforts.
 Successfully had responsibilities of a lead, mentoring as many as 10 testers on a
given project.
 Design and develop thorough Test Scenarios, Test Cases for various
Business Services/methods covering both positive and negative testing of
requirements.
 Utilizing all aspects of the testing tool IBM-Rational Quality Manager to document
all test data.
 Utilizing all aspect of the defect tracking tool Rational Team Concert to
document and track defects and run queries to monitor progress reporting.
 Utilizing all aspects of the Requirements tracking tool Requisite Pro to assure the
test cases are assigned to the appropriate requirements under test.
 Developed Test plans to support Regression testing efforts.
 Developed manual test scripts for performing Regression testing.
 Maintaining the scope of all projects when writing requirements reviewing test cases.
 Worked with DBAs to run batch jobs in the application.
Technical Environment: RTC, RQM, SQL, DB2, SharePoint Windows

Sr. Software Test Analyst/Business Analyst, CACI Government Software Application

Integration
12/2008 - 05/2011
Role:
 Involved in gathering and analyzing the product requirements, functional
specifications and software design documents and develop clear and concise test
plans.
 Work with Lead Business Analyst to develop concise, detailed user stories.
 Interface with peers and management on test related topics including test plan
creation, test setup/coordination and test execution.
 Work closely with all the business as well as technology stakeholders to analyze
complex business processes.
 Design and develop Test Scenario/Test Cases for various Business
Services/methods covering both positive and negative testing requirements.
 Design and develop Test Scenarios and Test Cases based on Business
requirements, technical specifications and writing user stories.
 Attend weekly Project Status Meeting with Development Team, QA Manager, and
worked closely to define Test Scope, Gap Analysis, Risk, and Dependency.
 Conduct Smoke, GUI, Functional, Integration and Regression testing during the
various phases of the Development.
 Perform Functional and Integration testing of the application and prioritized test
cases to meet project specific deadlines.
 Perform Risk Analysis based on defect severity and priority.
 Provide timely feedback to developers as bugs are found using Quality Center.
 Create automated test scripts for functional testing using Quick Test Professional.
 Involve in maintaining and uploading the QTP Scripts to Quality Center.
 Extensive Knowledge in writing Test Scripts using VB Script in Quick Test Pro.
 Enhance the test scripts through Check Points and Parameterization.
 Create Data-Driven Tests and manually add data driven statements to test scripts.
 Manage and execute the traceability matrix of requirements to test cases.
 Perform ad hoc and exploratory testing beyond pre-existing test cases.
 Report and verify bugs in Mercury Quality Center.
 Participate in various meetings and discuss Enhancement and Modification requests.
 Communicate with Application Developers, Project Manager, and other Team
Members on Application testing status on an ongoing basis when necessary.
 Write custom SQL queries for data validation on back-end database, Oracle.

 Defects were tracked and reported in Quality Center.

 Coordinate with development team for all the issues related to deployment and
defect tracking.
 Participate in defect review meetings with the team members and coordinate with
project development team.
 Provide support to the development team for functional requirement issues.
 Use Quality Center for tracking documents and managing versions.
 Gather and analyze tests logs, defects and implement final test summary reports.
Technical Environment: HP Quick Test Professional, Quality Center, Oracle, Toad,
SQL, and Windows