• Planning and executing testing activities per release: Responsible for all testing activities through the release. This includes Developing test plans, which specify the scope, objectives, and procedures for testing, working with the QA team to execute the test plans and track the progress of testing, validating defects and planning other non-related release activities.• Analyze Risks and Tracking the progress of testing and manage the work prioritization: Responsible for tracking the progress of testing and ensuring that it is on track to meet the project's deadlines and quarter releases. Develop and monitor dashboards and metrics that measure the progress of the various QA projects during the release.• Communicating with stakeholders: Responsible for communicating with the cross-functional team about the progress of testing and the results of testing. Working with developers and product managers, to ensure that testing requirements are meeting the metrics that agreed upon.• Responsible for cross-team initiatives/projects across the whole organization (Recent Initiatives/projects): o Product containerization and Kubernetes/docker support: Driving the qualification of the Calibre Image on containers and Kubernetes clusters. Create the necessary script to submit the current test infrastructure to run on the Kubernetes cluster. Working with infrastructure team about requirements needed to enable existing QA infrastructure on our common infrastructure. Debug QA issues found. o Portable Test infrastructure: Lead an initiative to determine the requirements for the QA regression test harness and common infrastructure to ensure Portable Test infrastructure for the QA regression across other grids, in cloud and part of disaster recovery initiative. Work with team to develop scripts and polices o Requirements for Feature development and testing. o New hires boarding process and knowledge transfer.

• Responsible for testing activities for multiple products Quality in our semi-manufacturing flows (Calibre RET tools). Owning the design, development, and execution of application specific functional and performance regression tests used to measure the quality, robustness, performance, supportability, and usefulness of our semi-manufacturing products in our customer's semiconductor flows. Collaborating with senior software engineers, quality assurance engineers, and products engineering and managers, to help deliver the timely product releases. Develop procedures and tools needed to improve the QA process and assist developers in design trade-offs and risk analysis assessments.• Identifying and reporting defects: Responsible with my team for identifying defects in software products and working with the QA team to investigate defects, and report then and work with marketing an engineering to determine their severity and prioritize them for fix.• Run Root Cause Analysis (RCAs), Reviews and Post-Mortem within the assigned product areas and work on developing, monitoring, and measuring metrics to determine the causes for defects, delays in qualification and resolution and define resolution scenarios and processes to avoid the issues in the future.• Work with development on ideas to make the products more testable, maintainable, and supportable. This is achieved through proposing enhancements for the tool and work with engineering in implementing it.• Continuous improvement: Responsible for continuously improving the software testing process by work with other QA engineers to identify areas for improvement and automation. Work with the team on internals tools to automate the generation of the test scenarios, execution, comparison, and reporting results.

• Perform as the primary liaison between IBM and our division by identifying customer needs, specific internal flows and demonstrating our tools usability in their working environment. Act as the interface between the customer and Sales, Marketing and Managed Markets to efficiently address account needs. • Create and Manage new R&D relationship projects with customers on next generation technology. This includes managing beta tools and feature testing projects and including feedback from the customer to the product teams• Identify, Drive and communicate customer specific enhancement and needs in the tools and support • Understand critical customer milestones, objectives and timelines and align this with factory roadmaps.• Ensure regular technical and management review meetings between Mentor teams and the customer.

• Provide regularly technical support and training to our customers and our internal Sales Team.• Provide consulting and support to Customers and Sales in problem solving and troubleshooting to resolve customer issues. Prepare market studies for locating potential enhancements for the supported products. • Provide Project Management, resource planning and scheduling for all the projects handled by the Cairo TMEs.• Identified new product needs, prototypes for new tools and/or workflows and new user case scenarios, through writing marketing requirement documents (MRDs) that capture and evaluate the capabilities of new features and products. Work with Product Marketing and Engineering to deliver these new capabilities and to communicate the value of these new features and products.• Executed technical benchmarking with key customers to validate performance from release to another and to show cases for new features.• Managed to extend our offshore team tasks portfolio from only product support to customer and sales support and product marketing, reflecting growing expertise of customer need awareness; with most of our customers spread across the USA, Pacific Rim and Europe.

• Provided Consulting service to Mentor semi-manufacturing customers efficiently using Mentor Graphics tools.• Accomplished an on-site assignment @ IBM (NY, USA) to support and train our customer on using New Mentor tools.

• Supported Mentor Eldo Analog circuit simulator and models • Offered Parameter extraction services to the leading top foundries. • Built standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the workflows. This enabled the standardization of the workflow methodology for all team members in similar projects and increased persistent high-quality results• Expanded and extended the extraction business with customers through the extraction of other types of transistor models and the increase of the number of extracted processes (projects) per year.