Zenab Naqvi

About Zenab Naqvi

As a Program Management professional, I lead and coordinate complex software projects across multiple teams and departments, ensuring alignment with the company\'s vision and goals. With active listening and appreciation, I create an environment where the team feels empowered and motivated to achieve their best. My key qualifications- 15+ years of experience in project management, software quality assurance, and agile methodologies- Certificate in project management from UC Berkeley Extension and a certification as a SAFe Agilist.My Mission-Create a collaborative work environment that fosters autonomy, transparency, innovation, and learning, and empowers teams to achieve shared goals- Leverage my skills in Agile, Jira, and Scrum to facilitate communication, planning, execution, and delivery of integrated software projects that surpass customer expectations- Partner with technical development and diverse business teams to identify and resolve issues, mitigate risks, and optimize performance.

Experience

1. Principal Project Manager

   Genentech

   Oct 2022 — Present · US

   Orchestrate the formation/management of multiple IT squads with diverse technical skill sets and individuals (50+ members) working on multiple key initiatives through influence versus direct management.Establish and enable communication channels and key metrics providing progress updates, decisions, risks, and other data needed to keep stakeholders informed on value delivery and enable decision-making in the teams.Worked closely with the Business, Stakeholders on the Roadmap which comprised process improvement, prioritization of business deliverables, and technology selection-Active engagement in Coaching, mentoring, delegating, and ensuring the team is empowered to make the right decisions/resolutions.• Decisive, action oriented and result focused leader with diversified industry work experience in building, managing and delivering programs for successful product launches, system implementations and business operations. • Excellent leadership skills including issue management, conflict resolution, business and process analysis, team building and staff management, process improvement.• Collaborating with Architects, Tech Leads, Business Analysts, Business partners and other squad members towards prioritization, strategic direction and to ensure roadmap delivery is aligned and focused to Business needs.• Coached/mentored teams, leaders, Scrum Masters, PO’s in Lean-Agile practices/mindsets and contributed to establishing a strong Agile framework within the organization.Worked on SAFe framework with other Release Train Engineers [RTE\'s].• Managed critical decision making process, anticipated and mitigated potential risks, explored and implemented contingency plans, and ensured cross-functional alignment throughout the program\'s lifecycle• Supported fostering a growth mindset culture where teams and organizations solve problems to transform the lives of patients, customers, and business partners.

Education

• UC Berkeley Extension

  Certificate Program in Project Management

  2019 — 2020

• BSAITM, Maharishi Dayanand University

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Quality Center
• Flex
• Requirements Analysis
• Requirements Gathering
• Sql
• Requirements Traceability
• Test Planning
• Manual Testing
• Regression Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Defect Tracking
• Resource Management
• Crystal Reports
• Edi
• Functional Testing
• Test Management
• Qtp
• Hp Quality Center
• Software Quality Assurance
• Test Cases
• Sdlc