Shakeel Akbar Email & Phone Number

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

•10+ years experience in Banking and Finance domain especially related to payment gateway.•Working as Principal QA role for noqodi payment gateway (http://www.noqodi.com)•Actively involved in SCRUM activities including Grooming Sessions, Daily Standups, Sprint Retrospective.•CI/CD of applications under the project using Jenkins and integration with Test Automation Suite for Web, Web Services for Build Verification, Functional & Regression Tests.•Test Strategy and Test Planning for Integration release with Scrum Master/ Product Owner.•Performance Engineering for web applications, web services including identifying performance bottlenecks and performance tuning suggestions to developers.• UAT support for Internal stake holders, Merchant and Banks after integration test completion.•Support for production issues (Level2 Support) and regression test of impacted areas and post-deployment sanity support.•Manual / Exploratory testing of applications and provide early feedback to developers.•Mentor junior testers in the team and guide them throughout the testing process in SCRUM when needed.

Lahore, Pakistan

• As Section Lead, Managed whole of SQA cycle of small and medium sized projects that includes planning, developing and executing of test cases ranging from functionality, backend database validation, UAT, business, GUI, and stress & performance level for both manual and automated testing.• As Section Lead, Managed SQA department for the organization that includes hiring, training and monitoring of QA/QC resources and their respective activities on different projects.• Participated actively in continuous process improvement of QC processes and their impact on the respective development processes.• Performed testing of Desktop and Web based Applications in .NET• Experience of testing in Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Office for Share Point, Microsoft Sharepoint Services, Web Services.• Test Estimation, Test Planning, Resource Planning of Test Projects in Lahore Center.• Test Automation of Web based Applications using QTP 9.x for Regression & Acceptance Tests• Performance testing of Web Application using Load Runner 9.x, and Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Software Testers• As PPQA team lead, responsible for review and approval of activities performed by the QA team members: PPQA Plan and Schedule, Audit Results, process improvement opportunities and Lessons Learned.• As QA Team Lead presented Quality Trends, Process Improvement Opportunities and Lessons Learned to Top Management.• Senior member of SEPG group and managed the team for process definition of Verification and Validation process areas (CMMi Level-3) and actively participated in process definition and review activity in PAT

Lahore, Pakistan

• Managed the whole SQA life cycle of small and medium-sized projects including planning, developing, and executing test cases ranging from functionality, backend database validation, UAT, business, GUI, and stress & performance level for both manual and automated testing.• Managed SQA department for the organization as Deputy Team Lead that includes training and monitoring of QC resources and their respective activities on different projects.• Communication with the Project Manager and Development Teams for QC-related functions.• Performed testing of different web applications used in Hewlett-Packard • Experienced testing of a Product in the Document Processing Domain (BMK Application) – http://www.kapsware.com• Review of Project Artifacts created at different phases of SDLC