Azfar Ayub Email & Phone Number

Dubai, Ae

• Responsible to lead, evaluate and manage project managers and entire offshore staff• Managing, monitoring and controlling multiple projects simultaneously and executing multiple projects ( via Agile or Conventional project plan) in collaboration with the team members to meet changing needs and requirements• Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews, preparing and completing action plans, implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards.• Resolving problems, identifying trends, determining system improvements.• Coordinate cross-project activities.• Develop and control deadlines and activities.• Apply change, risk and resource management.• Prepare reports for program directors and executives.• Helping the QA group to set specific goals in-line with the company goals.• Accomplishes human resource objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees.• Communicating job expectations, planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions.• Enforcing policies and procedures.

• Responsible for end to end delivery for various projects.• Involved in all phases of the project life cycle starting from Sales pitch to UAT and Support & Maintenance.• Continuously engaging all the clients in requirement gathering, scope freezing, prototyping, development and post development support period.• Managing multiple projects in a very fast pace work environment in diversified technologies of PHP, iOS , Android ,HTML5 and Unity framework. • Successfully delivered various mobile applications, websites and games for our customers in US, Australia and Europe.

Worked at Folio3 Pvt Ltd as a Project Manager where I was involved in various Project Management and Product Management activitiesMy key responsibilities include:• Off shore and on shore client communication.• Understand customer’s business, extract requirements, and propose customized solutions.Create project proposals and statements of work.• Define the scope of work, business requirements and project deliverables Identify work required to achieve project deliverables.• Create WBS(Work Breakdown Structure), task allocation, track and control• Develop requirements document based on business or use cases by using tools like Balsamiq/Axure to Mockup various workflows.• Prepare Project Plan, execute and monitor• Implemented different software life cycle methodologies, in various projects, like Waterfall, Agile etc.• Managing customer expectations and communicating them to team members and other stakeholders in a timely manner.• Manage multiple teams, prioritize and delegate tasks.• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools.

• Ensuring delivery against QA defined goals and objectives, i.e. Meeting commitments and coordinating overall quality assurance schedule• Providing necessary definition, development and deployment of product quality assurance strategy, addressing all phases of product development• Maintains product consistency throughout product cycle, to include the design, define and build phases through quality checkpoints and testing• Developing and managing quality assurance metrics for performance improvement of all teams• Assuring the viability, functionality and effectiveness of essential tools• Responsible of creating task and checklists for software deployment• Managing the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates• Responsible and accountable of flagging the timing of interdepartmental deliverables and the quality of their output• Works with project managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related projects

• Decide approaches, provides estimations for schedules, technical scope & required project resources• Deployment of builds released at servers• Test Case writing and review of the other team members• Test Planning as per scope and available resources• Test Plan Execution and tracking• Analyzing end user behavior and suggest ways to PMs to improve the user experience• Task Assignments for team as per test plan.• Project status reporting, highlighting the problem faced during testing, unstable features etc• Bugs Scrubs and prioritization of bugs with PM and PJM.• Briefing product/project requirements to QA team.• Review, testing and verification of client bugs during UAT• Managing off shore QA teams of China and US• Team Management• Training and mentoring the junior resources

• Involved in Requirement Analysis phase • Involved in Documents, Development and Post Development reviews• Review Requirement Specifications and Functional Specifications and give feedback• Preparation, communication, execution & monitoring of Test Plan & Test cases.• Preparation & execution of functional, GUI, and database test cases & system scenarios.• Responsible for defining Application Acceptance Criteria for the product• Working closely with QA Lead and assisting him in his tasks• Coordinating with developers for feature implementation and bug fixing.• Perform Validation and Verification• Testing of various Mobile platforms including Java S40, Symbian 7,8,9 , Windows Mobile, Blackberry and Motorola • Verification and submission of Mobile builds to 3rd party signing sources like VeriSign and Windows Mobile2Market• Training and mentoring other mates in PK , US and China offices

• Perform functional, user acceptance and regression testing on all central system, subsystems, modules and applications.• Create, maintain and update test cases, based on business requirements.• Assist SQA Manager in development of test plan and Test Reports.• Reporting and managing software issues. • Understanding of activities throughout the software development lifecycle.• Do testing of assigned modules.• Prepare Test Cases and Submit Bug Reports/Software Change Requests for developers• Discussion with development team regarding issues found out during testing activity.• Perform research work related to project or SQA activities• Documentation as per requirement as asked by Project Manager or SQA Manager• Perform Black box testing. • Verify bug tickets as software development team fixes bugs on local testing and production servers

Ms, Software Project Management

Bs, Computer Science

Intermediate, Pre-Engineering

Matriculation, Science (Biology)