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Pakistan

• Collaborated with Senior Managers to hit key business goals and define project roadmaps• Worked with Senior Program Manager to define high-level program roadmap, including definition, critical milestones, budget and strategic goals for various programs • Formulated project timing and risk mitigation plans to identify potential problems and adverse impacts before they had the chance to occur.• Meet and facilitate decision-making with stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure clear… Show more • Collaborated with Senior Managers to hit key business goals and define project roadmaps• Worked with Senior Program Manager to define high-level program roadmap, including definition, critical milestones, budget and strategic goals for various programs • Formulated project timing and risk mitigation plans to identify potential problems and adverse impacts before they had the chance to occur.• Meet and facilitate decision-making with stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure clear and transparent communication regarding risks/issues.• Acted as liaison between 5+ country offices.• Planning and monitoring program execution.• Project coordination and managing project interdependencies• Creating and managing a program budget by closely monitoring and controlling the program life cycle• Ensuring the delivery of new products or services from projects is to the appropriate level of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the program plan and program governance arrangements• Initiating extra activities and other management interventions wherever gaps in the program are identified or issues arise• Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the program - focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the program, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other program and corporate, technical and specialist standards Show less

• Coached development teams through agile transitions by developing a full understanding of the Scrum framework and why it benefits all parties.• Worked with senior leadership on understanding and embracing the aspects of agile software development that help them achieve their goals without creating churn on development teams • Led the adoption of tools, artifacts, and ceremonies to promote a better investment in team productivity, communication, and autonomy.• Acted as liaison… Show more • Coached development teams through agile transitions by developing a full understanding of the Scrum framework and why it benefits all parties.• Worked with senior leadership on understanding and embracing the aspects of agile software development that help them achieve their goals without creating churn on development teams • Led the adoption of tools, artifacts, and ceremonies to promote a better investment in team productivity, communication, and autonomy.• Acted as liaison between 5+ country offices.• Identified and raised challenges and obstacles, and work collaboratively with the Centre of Excellence and coaches to resolve them.• Oversaw resources and processes responsible for deployment and support of overall deliveries.• Meet and facilitate decision-making with stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure clear and transparent communication regarding risks/issues.• Utilized the Product Planning section of JIRA to enter prioritized and groomed User Stories into the Product Backlog.• Coached and taught for new teams including how to perform key Agile ceremonies such as planning sessions and daily stand-ups and how to effectively utilize Agile artifacts such as product backlogs.• Led agile teams through product framing and discovery, including defining business KPIs, product vision, user story mapping, and other farming activities.• Identified and raised challenges and obstacles, and work collaboratively with the Centre of Excellence and coaches to resolve them Show less

Punjab, Pakistan

• Owning the product roadmap and work with the commercial team to deliver on the company’s lofty targets.• Managing a development team’s backlog – writing and prioritizing stories, managing the backlog; making decisions on scope to deliver value in small increments as quickly as possible.• Conducted daily stand-ups and organizes development groups around Agile Sprints to ensure they keep up with and respond to customer demands/issues.• Understanding the minimum viable product (MVP)… Show more • Owning the product roadmap and work with the commercial team to deliver on the company’s lofty targets.• Managing a development team’s backlog – writing and prioritizing stories, managing the backlog; making decisions on scope to deliver value in small increments as quickly as possible.• Conducted daily stand-ups and organizes development groups around Agile Sprints to ensure they keep up with and respond to customer demands/issues.• Understanding the minimum viable product (MVP) – prioritizing what is needed for launch to learn as quickly as possible.• Managing relationships with stakeholders – being the go-to person for a wide range of colleagues, enabling fast decision making.• Provide Status Reporting for visibility to Management and Teams Show less

• Process Control - Follow an Agile JIRA Workflow to ensure compliance across engineering and QA teams• Facilitate effective collaboration and communication across all stakeholders• Focal point for Project/Product Management - Act as an Interface among Development, Global deployment , Project Managers, CSM’s and Rest of Afiniti teams.• Maintain and Update – Afiniti Product Backlog (Feature List) and Feature Release Calendar with Release dates • Support for Development and… Show more • Process Control - Follow an Agile JIRA Workflow to ensure compliance across engineering and QA teams• Facilitate effective collaboration and communication across all stakeholders• Focal point for Project/Product Management - Act as an Interface among Development, Global deployment , Project Managers, CSM’s and Rest of Afiniti teams.• Maintain and Update – Afiniti Product Backlog (Feature List) and Feature Release Calendar with Release dates • Support for Development and Quality teams - Identifying and eliminating obstacles for delivery• Provide Status Reporting for visibility to Management and Team Show less

Lahore

Liaison & CommunicationCapably represents, interface with & engage the business user.Acts as a fully integrated team member.Responsible to set clear goals to communicate the project vision at the beginning of every release & sprint so that the team understands & is prepared to realize it.Takes decisions & clearly communicates requirements through epics & stories so they are understood.Communicates status outside the team to business owners, management & solution… Show more Liaison & CommunicationCapably represents, interface with & engage the business user.Acts as a fully integrated team member.Responsible to set clear goals to communicate the project vision at the beginning of every release & sprint so that the team understands & is prepared to realize it.Takes decisions & clearly communicates requirements through epics & stories so they are understood.Communicates status outside the team to business owners, management & solution architects.DevelopmentCreates, maintains, prioritizes, & sequences the product backlog based on business value/ROI/user expectation/complexity/urgency.Creates user stories & acceptance tests from themes & features granular enough for a single sprint.Prioritizes user stories by business value. Decides which user stories are scheduled into sprints.Rapid feedback on ongoing progress.Participates in project planning, daily st&-up meetings (scrums), reviews, retrospectives, sprint & release planning, demos & other Scrum-related meetings.Application SupportReviews deliverable & perform acceptance after every sprint, & has the authority to accept or reject.Develops & maintains standards for testing &progress visibility.Provides progress reporting.Assists as needed with backlog maintenance.Assists with internal & external communication, improving transparency, & radiating information.Assists with prioritization & resolution of defects /bugs.ManagementIs always accessible & participates proactively & constantly in the team activities.Steers the project to ensure delivery of business value.Is visible, vocal, & objective. Show less

• Liaison & CommunicationCapably represents, interface with & engage the business user.Acts as a fully integrated team member.Responsible to set clear goals to communicate the project vision at the beginning of every release & sprint so that the team understands & is prepared to realize it.Takes decisions & clearly communicates requirements through epics & stories so they are understood.Communicates status outside the team to business owners, management & solution… Show more • Liaison & CommunicationCapably represents, interface with & engage the business user.Acts as a fully integrated team member.Responsible to set clear goals to communicate the project vision at the beginning of every release & sprint so that the team understands & is prepared to realize it.Takes decisions & clearly communicates requirements through epics & stories so they are understood.Communicates status outside the team to business owners, management & solution architects.• DevelopmentCreates, maintains, prioritizes, & sequences the product backlog based on business value/ROI/user expectation/complexity/urgency.Creates user stories & acceptance tests from themes & features granular enough for a single sprint.Prioritizes user stories by business value. Decides which user stories are scheduled into sprints.Rapid feedback on ongoing progress.Participates in project planning, daily st&-up meetings (scrums), reviews, retrospectives, sprint & release planning, demos & other Scrum-related meetings.• Application SupportReviews deliverable & perform acceptance after every sprint, & has the authority to accept or reject.Develops & maintains standards for testing &progress visibility.Provides progress reporting.Assists as needed with backlog maintenance.Assists with internal & external communication, improving transparency, & radiating information.Assists with prioritization & resolution of defects /bugs.• ManagementIs always accessible & participates proactively & constantly in the team activities.Steers the project to ensure delivery of business value.Is visible, vocal, & objective. Show less

Islamabad

Responsible for a full range of activities which ensure the operational effectiveness and excellence of the business unit. Engage in designing and documentation of workflow and make appropriate recommendations that will positively impact operational effectiveness. Also responsible to track and analyze business unit trends and make appropriate recommendations that will impact positively. Working as a functional expert on the specified application(s) and being a sole point of contact between… Show more Responsible for a full range of activities which ensure the operational effectiveness and excellence of the business unit. Engage in designing and documentation of workflow and make appropriate recommendations that will positively impact operational effectiveness. Also responsible to track and analyze business unit trends and make appropriate recommendations that will impact positively. Working as a functional expert on the specified application(s) and being a sole point of contact between the business unit and Information Technology’s Development Manager. Major Responsibilities:• Identify, analyze, refine and document business requirements.• Provide detailed business requirements specification for application engineers / developers. Guide and mentor testing team to develop, co-ordinate and implement plans to test business and functional testing.• Assist Project Manager in timely production of outputs to previously agreed timescales, including status reports.• Collaborate with all stakeholders to understand and document client work flows, requirements and application design.• Provide specification analysis in order to clear and coordinate interpretations of the software requirements and design.• Prepare User Guides and other training/web material and conduct trainings. • Producing and updating project and summary reports. Show less

Islamabad

• Administration of Quality center server and updation as per projects and resource requirements• Execute testing activities for E-Office Application for Electronic Government Directorate – EGD• Perform End to End smoke run on Internal Communication Module (IC) for Employee’ Old age – Benefits Institution - EOBI• Conduct requirement gathering and GAP analysis session at Security Agency (e-Doc)• Review and updation of the Requirements Traceability Matrix for System Specification… Show more • Administration of Quality center server and updation as per projects and resource requirements• Execute testing activities for E-Office Application for Electronic Government Directorate – EGD• Perform End to End smoke run on Internal Communication Module (IC) for Employee’ Old age – Benefits Institution - EOBI• Conduct requirement gathering and GAP analysis session at Security Agency (e-Doc)• Review and updation of the Requirements Traceability Matrix for System Specification Document (SSD) to attached Wing of Interior Ministry (e-Doc)• Develop the complete User Acceptance Test plan for Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited - PTCL (Etisalat)• Supervision and guidance of new testing resources• Review and updation of test plans in Quality Center – QC as per actual client requirements• Execution of test cases for various applications and updation of their respective results in Quality Center• Reporting, tracking and resolution of reported defects as per the defect life cycle• Extraction of test case(s) status in excel sheet from Quality Center and prepare detailed report based on extracted data.• Preparation of End to End Test plan in Quality Center – QC for Security Agency (e-Doc)• Responsible for correspondence with clients from requirements identification till final acceptance from clients• Develop the complete User Acceptance Test plan for Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited - PTCL (Etisalat) Show less

Islamabad

Major Responsibilities• Conduct the successful User Acceptance Testing of the Document and File Management application at National Telecommunication Corporation - NTC (E-Office)• Conduct the successful User Acceptance Testing of the Document and File Management application at National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)• Conduct the System Requirement Specification (SRS) verification activity for Internal Communication Module (IC),Inventory & Procurement Module (IP),Human… Show more Major Responsibilities• Conduct the successful User Acceptance Testing of the Document and File Management application at National Telecommunication Corporation - NTC (E-Office)• Conduct the successful User Acceptance Testing of the Document and File Management application at National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)• Conduct the System Requirement Specification (SRS) verification activity for Internal Communication Module (IC),Inventory & Procurement Module (IP),Human Resource Module (HR),Project Management Module (PM), Finance and Budgeting Module (FP&B) for Capital Development Authority – CDA • Perform the Cosmetic and Usability Testing on Geographical Information System - GIS Application• Execute testing activities for E-Office Application for Electronic Government Directorate – EGD• Execute testing activities for Travel Management System - TMS for both the test and production servers.• Execute testing activities for Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited – PTCL for proof of concept - POC• Conduct the User Acceptance Testing - UAT session for Travel Management System – TMS.• Perform End to End smoke run on Internal Communication Module (IC) for National Telecommunication Corporation - NTC (E-Office)• Responsible for correspondence with clients from requirements identification till final acceptance from clients• Preparation of End to End Test plan in Quality Center – QC for National Telecommunication Corporation - NTC (E-Office), National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)• Review and updation of test plans in Quality Center – QC as per actual client requirements• Reporting, tracking and resolution of reported defects as per the defect life cycle• Extraction of test case(s) status in excel sheet from Quality Center and prepare detailed report based on extracted data.• Supervision and guidance of new testing resources• Administration of Quality center server and updation as per projects and resource requirements Show less

Head Office Islamabad

Major Responsibilities• Designing and implementation of Software Quality Assurance -SQA Framework for bank wide testing and quality assurance activities. • Designing and implementation of Software Quality Assurance - SQA Reporting templates• Preparation and maintenance of testing and reporting documents• Creation of End to end Test Plans for various banking applications• Reporting ,Analysis and root cause identification for defects in various banking application… Show more Major Responsibilities• Designing and implementation of Software Quality Assurance -SQA Framework for bank wide testing and quality assurance activities. • Designing and implementation of Software Quality Assurance - SQA Reporting templates• Preparation and maintenance of testing and reporting documents• Creation of End to end Test Plans for various banking applications• Reporting ,Analysis and root cause identification for defects in various banking application • Generation of test data for execution of test cases. And test matrices for testing related activities• Creation and mapping of Scenario & Test Matrix for testing procedures.• Creation and mapping of Traceability Matrix for testing results.• Inception and development of Standard Operating Procedures – SOPs for bank wide Information Technology – IT processes. Show less

Islamabad

Major Responsibilities• Creating of Test Plans• Generation of test cases.• Execution of test cases with multiple scenarios • Maintenance of documents for testing & Reporting• Result Analysis, Root cause identification and Reporting for defects in the applications.• Documentation and mapping of Test Matrices• Generation of Test Data for testing activities. • Creation and mapping of Scenario Matrix for testing procedures.• Creation and mapping of… Show more Major Responsibilities• Creating of Test Plans• Generation of test cases.• Execution of test cases with multiple scenarios • Maintenance of documents for testing & Reporting• Result Analysis, Root cause identification and Reporting for defects in the applications.• Documentation and mapping of Test Matrices• Generation of Test Data for testing activities. • Creation and mapping of Scenario Matrix for testing procedures.• Creation and mapping of Traceability Matrix for testing results. Show less

Islamabad

Major Responsibilities• Worked in a Development Team, key tools were Classic ASP, .Net, SQL Server 2005• Worked as a Technical writer, major tasks were relating to preparing SRS and User Manuals.• Worked in QA Teams, Major tasks were generation and execution of test cases.

Bse, Software Engineering, Cgpa 3.34

Fsc, Mathematics,Physics,Chemistry, 72% A Grade