SUMMARY

EDUCATION: Master in Computer Science, a Senior Testing Resource Offering a Career Spanning 13 Years in IT Industry

• Objective: Seeking to steer IT Operations as Director Testing or Manager Software Testing while integrating technical expertise and leadership skills that drives organizational performance to world-class levels.
• Exposure: An overall 13 years of experience as a Software Professional in multiple work environments and roles, possessing six plus years of test management, testing, quality assurance, scrum master, requirements management, and lifecycle management tools experience for the employers Royal Cyber Inc., Central Depository Company of Pakistan Ltd, OA Systems Inc., and GameView Studios (Pvt.) Limited.
• Technical Skills: HP’s ALM/Quality Center (administration, release & requirements management, test planning, test lab & defects module), HP’s Quick Test Professional (test automation, checkpoints, functions, debugging, recovery scenarios, object repository etc.), IBM Jazz Platform tools viz. Rational Requirement Composer (RRC), Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational Quality Manager (RQM), Rational Functional Tester (RFT), and Rational Performance Tester (RPT), Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server 2010, PL/SQL developer and other office automation and reporting tools.
• Additional Excellence in: Agile Methodologies (Scrum, XP), Banking and Stock Market related functions and procedures, specifically in Mutual Funds and Equity marketing trades, Healthcare policies & procedures, Consulting, Training, Team Management, Communication and Interpersonal Traits.

Confidential, Senior Test Manager / Test Consultant (April 2011 till date)

• Got promoted to Senior Test Manager and reporting directly to Chicago (USA) based CEO.
• Handling Test Management function while supervising and performing Functional, Performance, Regression, Automation, and other types of testing performed across the board.
• Supervising a dedicated team of Test Leads, Test Analysts, and Testers and managing day to day testing tasks.
• Involved in providing consultancy and training to offshore clients on HP’s Quality Center (Version 10 and 11), IBM Rational CLM tools including Requirement Composer, Team Concert, and Quality Manager.
• Have successfully installed and configured complete CLM solution involving Rational Requirement Composer, Rational Team Concert, and Rational Quality Manager in Windows client-server environment for an international client (National Commercial Bank, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia) following Agile (Scrum) methodology. The project was initially a 90 days contract, stretched to 120 days based on my active involvement and performance.
• Have successfully installed and configured Rational ClearCase in Windows client-server environment successfully for an international client (South African Revenue Services, Pretoria, South Africa).

• Joined in Apr. 2009, lead a team of 3 and reported to the Director Technology.
• Superintended company’s SQA department, Assignment and Execution of day-to-day tasks, Test Planning, Test Executions, Defects Reporting/ Defects Management, Analysis and Development of Functional Specifications, Identification of Process weaknesses and their Improvements and mentoring junior SQA Resources.
• Administered HP\'s Quality Center tool for all other software teams and participated actively in writing & maintaining Automated Test Scripts in HP\'s Quick Test Professional, based on Agile (Scrum) process model.
• Provided hand-on experience to testing tasks (majorly automated) and also mentoring and training junior testers for the same.

Confidential,Assistant Manager, SQA Team Lead (Feb 2006 – Mar 2009)

Assistant Manager, SQA Team Lead:

• Rejoined in Feb 2006 in the IT Dept, lead a team of 4 SQAE’s and reported to the Head of Application Development.
• Responsible for Administering the Project’s SQA Team, Assignment and Execution of day-to-day tasks, Test Planning, Test Executions, Defects Reporting/ Defects Management, Identification of Process weaknesses and their Improvements and mentoring junior SQA Resources, based on Waterfall (V-Model) methodology.
• Administered HP\'s Quality Center tool for all other company users and writing & maintaining Automated Test Scripts in HP\'s Quick Test Professional.
• Provided hand-on experience to testing tasks (both manual and automated) and also mentoring and training junior testers for the same.
• Earned first hand business knowledge for Equities, Funds, Bonds, and other Stock Market instruments through business analysis of current and upcoming products.

• Successfully designed more than one generic test case templates for test planning & executions and Tested & Delivered Functional Modules, resulting in zero or minimal defects in production environment.
• Achieved highest competency level in working with HP\'s Quality Center and HP\'s Quick Test Professional among all SQA Engineers/Managers.
• Instrumental in highlighting major Process weaknesses and improvements in all concerned areas of SDLC.

Senior Officer, Analyst Programmer:

• Reported to the Manager – Application Group, responsible for Analysis of user requirements, designing of Development model and development of programming artifacts & modules.
• Programming of multiple application modules and manipulating Database level queries using ProgressTM.
• Unit level testing of functional modules before being promoted at SQA setup and Identification of code defects & their improvements.

Achievements:

• Successfully delivered Functional modules and analyzed & designed Code / Database schema for more than one Projects.
• Instrumental in suggesting Code and Database level improvements and efficiency techniques.

Confidential,SQA Lead – Principal SQA (April 2012 – June 2012)

• Joined in April 2012, lead a team of 8 Test Engineers, and reported to SQA Director in California, USA.
• Managed and directed all testing activities and contributing in all phases of the SDLC for the product involving requirement gathering and requirement analysis, test planning, test execution, defect reporting and defect management, follow up, reporting etc., based on Agile (Scrum and XP) methodology.

Confidential,Lecturer – Computer Science (Jan 2002 – Jan 2006)

Confidential,Group Leader – Faculty / Software Engineer (Nov 2000 – Dec 2001)

Project: Conversion of 2-tier Development Architecture Model of the CDS into a 3-tier distributed architecture
Client: Confidential, Duration: Aug 1999 – Jan 2000
Description: Complete modification in the client/server model of the existing application i.e. the Central Depository System (CDS) into a 3-tiered architecture.

Project: Development of Delivery vs. Payment (DvP) System
Client: Confidential, Duration: Jun 2000 – Aug 2000
Description: Enforcement of "Delivery versus Payment" operational law across all parties connected with Stock Market\'s trading, settlement and clearance procedures and transfer of electronic cash & securities between the Participants (Members) of the Stock Market.

Project: General-purpose engineering stores spares’ control system. (Internship Project)
Client: Confidential, Duration: Sep 1998 – Dec 1998

Project: Extension in the web site of PIENET Global to display on-line live currency exchange rates.
Client: Confidential, Duration: Mar 1999 – Jun 1999

Summary of Development Achievements: Possess development experience on Java 2 SDK, C++, and also with Oracle 7 till 10g during various free lance and side projects of my employers for the last 7.5 years. Proficient in OO programming, OO A&D as well.

Master in Computer Science (Database & Object Oriented Programming Language).