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Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Led a team of 8 QA engineers in designing and executing comprehensive test plans for a complex web application, resulting in a 25% reduction in post-release defects.• Spearheaded the implementation of automated testing processes, resulting in a 40% decrease in testing time and a 60% increase in test coverage.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to define testing requirements, leading to a 20% improvement in overall product quality and a 30% decrease in customer-reported issues.• Designed and maintained a suite of performance tests, identifying and resolving bottlenecks that led to a 50% increase in application responsiveness.• Established a robust regression testing strategy, reducing regression-related defects by 70% over a 6-month period.• Mentored and provided technical guidance to junior QA engineers, resulting in a 30% increase in their skills and productivity• Conducted root cause analysis on complex defects, leading to a 40% reduction in recurring issues and a significant enhancement of product stability.• Formalized the test documentation, which reduced the onboarding time for new team members by 25%.

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

• Lead and execute comprehensive testing efforts across desktop, web-based, and mobile applications.• Develop and maintain automated test scripts using industry-leading automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium WebDriver, BDD(Gherkins), TestNG ) to ensure thorough test coverage and early defect detection• Implement and maintain test automation infrastructure, including setting up test environments, test data management, and continuous integration workflows.• Troubleshoot and debug automation scripts, identifying root causes of failures and driving timely resolution.• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in software testing and automation.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, product managers, and manual testers, to understand testing requirements and validate user stories and acceptance criteria.• Participate in test planning, test case design, and test strategy formulation to improve overall testing effectiveness and ensure alignment with project objectives.• Conduct knowledge transfer sessions for team members and perform peer reviews to enhance quality standards.• Develop and maintain detailed test cases and business scenarios based on functional specifications.• Execute a range of tests, including Smoke, Functional, Non-functional, Integration, Regression, and System Testing.• Efficiently track, report, and verify bugs, coordinating with development teams for timely resolution.

Beaumont Plaza,Karachi

• Understanding and performing Quality Management task as per SOP’s.• Working on Desktop, Web-Based, Android and Windows Mobile Applications.• Working in close co-ordination with SQA Lead/Manger in assessing Project health and Risks.• Assists SQA Lead in Knowledge transfer sessions to other team members.• Perform Peer Reviews for improving Quality Standards for Organization.• Managing Build Deployment on multiple SQA servers.• Reviewing FS document and identifying if any specification is missing or incomplete as per Client Expectations.• Design, develop, update and execute detailed test cases and Business Scenarios as per FS and Design.• Perform Testing (Smoke, Functional, non-functional, Integration, Regression, and System etc.)• Bugs tracking, reporting and verification.• Coordinates with development team in fixing the issues and release of bug fixes meeting tight timeline and Quality.• Verify the issues/operational problems as reported by the client and ensuring its timely delivery as per SLA.• Release Candidate and Gold Client Builds.• Release notes compilation for Client Releases.• Delivers In-house UATs to several clients.• Assists in Test Automation for Products and work in close co-ordination for its updates.• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan.• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues immediately to management.• Develop Test Environment.

Beaumont Plaza Karachi

• Inspection of artifacts (Project Charter, SRS, FS, Release Notes, Installation Guide, User Manual, Release Shipment Form and IT Support Guide).• Creating and execute test strategies core product.• Develop and execute test automation through customized Test framework using Selenium Web-driver.• Creating deployment packages for customer releases.• Testing experience on web, desktop and mobile applications• Proficient in all stages of test life cycle from test planning to defect tracking and managing defect lifecycle.• Analyze and design user stories/test scenario for scripting and test data development.• Verify reported customer issue before assigning it to development queue.• Hands on working experience in Agile development environment.• Perform all types of testing ( Black Box Testing, Smoke, GUI Testing, Functional Testing ,Regression, Integration testing.)• Providing post -production support for system issues, including research and follow-up• Automation script planning and data designing.• Take a part in technical documentation.• I work in conjunction with the business users and development teams, responsible for the creation and execution of application test scripts, scenarios, and test plans that validate initial business requirements. • Provide Support to Implementation Team in SIT, UAT phase for deployment of project at client side.• Responsible for defect tracking, defect reporting and defect reproducing.• Managing multiple projects with aggressive time-lines and schedules.• Took an active role in static testing activities such as design review and requirements inspections to identify ambiguity and inconsistency in requirements as well as improve Design of company software products.• Participate in planning and conducting of project audits

Masters, Software Project Management

Bachelor Of Science In Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Head of Workshops and Seminars in ACM-FAST Deputy Head of Guests Relations in PROCOM. Member Of The literary.

Intermediate, Pre-Engineering

Activities and Societies: Debate team.Cricket Team, Social Gatherings. The intermediate of Science (HSC. Pre-Engineering) degree provides.

Matriculation, Science, A+

Activities and Societies: Debate Team,Head Prefect,Member of Drama Competition Matriculation (usually shortened to "matric") is a term.

Master Of Science (Ms), Software Project Management

Masters, Software Project Management