Distinguished Engineer - SQA 360training Jan 2014 - Present 10 Year(s) and 3 Month(s)
• Test IBM Web Sphere Commerce based product.
• Practitioner of Agile Methodology
• Participate in Grooming Session of User Stories with On shore and Off shore Product Owners.
• As a Scrum Master, ensure that teams are following Agile Process and Mentor them.
• Participates in Issues Triage Meetings.
• Advises and helps SQA Manager in all matters and runs the Department if SQA Manager is unavailable.
• Pro-actively suggest, obtain buy-in, and implement increasingly effective/efficient/repeatable QA process.
• Writing and execution of Testing Plan and Test Cases.
• Assist Automation Team by providing Selenium IDE scripts.
• Create necessary Technical Documentation as per SDLC process.
• Assign/task members of Software Quality team.
• Provide coaching and mentor junior members of SQA team, peers and other teams within the Engineering Department.
• Work tightly with project managers and Technology Project Management Office to ensure timelines are met and accurate estimates are provided for planning.
• Calculate testing effort LOE for improvements.
• Conduct project post mortem of previous cycle, and create a recommendations report identifying more and less successful project elements and what to consider doing differently in next cycle.
• Communicate QA Team member performance, milestones, deliverable, plan changes, and project status to QA Manager.
• Pro-actively identify potential crises and devise contingency plans.
• Attend all appropriate design meetings to give (recommend quality improvements, issues) and receive/disseminate (inform QA Team and QA Manager) test and project information.
• Interface with other department Leads (identify and resolve issues and conflicts, oversee the QA Environment)
• Give suggestions in establishing best practices.
• Participates in meeting with Business Team and Product Owner.
• Participates in Evaluation and Hiring process of QA resources
• Provide Training of Agile Methodology to newly hired resources.
Principal SQA Engineer Matrix System (Pvt) Ltd Feb 2011 - Present 13 Year(s) and 2 Month(s)
• Working in capacity of Team Lead on Portfolio Management Project
• Managing Team of 3 SQA Resources
• Maintaining Quality Standards as per CMMI Level - 2
• Prepare Test Plan and Test Cycle
• Planning of resources task using MS Project Plan
• Participate in planning of Project Plan and Project Schedule
• Perform Effort Estimation of tasks
• Tracking & Monitoring of SQA resources task
• Maintaining Traceability Matrix to ensure efficient Test Coverage.
• Review QA artifacts inspected by SQA resources i.e. SRS, FS, DS, ERD, RTM
• Review defects reported in our Bug Tracking system i.e. Quality Center
• Review Management artifacts i.e. Project Plan, Project Schedule, Risk Management Plan, Resource Management Plan etc.
• Management of test cases using Quality Center 9.0.
• Assuring that Developed Product conforms to Customer Requirements as per Functional Specification
• Conduct Software Process Improvement (SPI) Audit.
• Works in role of Business Analyst to assist Business Analyst Lead in Elicitation & Development of requirements.
• Participate in preparation of High Level estimates.
• Participate in Scope Finalization meeting.
• Participate in meeting with Business Analyst to clarify & understand the customer requirements.
• Participate in meeting with Clients.
• Participate in meeting with UX Designer to Finalize GUI
• Participates in Evaluation and Hiring process of QA resources