Need help in migrating cruisecontrol.net to jenkins for mstest automation projects

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Currently in our company we are executing tests from CCNet (in Automation VM) by specifying different build arguments, however I feel it is now best to migrate to better automation server which is Jenkins

I am new to Jenkins world however I started installing the jenkins (though had issue in starting the Jenkins Service, later found it was due to JDK version issue)

But now I have installed all the needed plugins(GIT - for gitlab repository, MSBuild and MStest)

But I do not know how do I specify build arguments in Jenkins the way we do it in CCNet.config files

Here is the CCNet Config File that we use to Force the build

What I have tried:

<project name="AutoTests - Payments" queue="Q13">
<triggers>
    <!--<scheduleTrigger time="03:30" buildCondition="ForceBuild" name="Scheduled" />-->
 </triggers>
  <workingDirectory>D:\GIT-TA</workingDirectory>
 <artifactDirectory>D:\DEV\deploy\AutomatedTest\BuildLogs\BasicTests.Payments</artifactDirectory>
 <category>AutomatedTest</category>
 <modificationDelaySeconds>60</modificationDelaySeconds>
 <labeller type="defaultlabeller">
    <prefix>0.1.</prefix>
    <incrementOnFailure>true</incrementOnFailure>
    <labelFormat>000</labelFormat>
 </labeller>
 <tasks>
    <exec>
       <executable>D:\MSTestExtended\Runner.exe</executable>
       <buildArgs>run-tests /project:payments /retriesCount:1</buildArgs>
       <buildTimeoutSeconds>6800</buildTimeoutSeconds>
       <successExitCodes>0</successExitCodes>
    </exec>
 </tasks>
 <publishers>
    <merge>
       <files>
          <file>D:\DEV\deploy\AutomatedTest\Results\TestPublish\BasicTests.Payments_Rerun.trx</file>
       </files>
    </merge>
    <xmllogger />
 </publishers>

Likewise we have many projects and then we do the build for that, but now in Jenkins I feel little lost - how do I configure it to with my according

Note: IN CCNet - it used to pick the branch whichever is checkout in VM, but I see in Jenkins we also need to manually setup the branch name; so in that case also Is there a way to specify the branch during build time?

And if I can add the selection for run-tests /project:payments /retriesCount:1 - when we initiate the jenkins build, it will aske to select the arguments

Can someone help me in that to understand the Jenkins way of doing this?