概要

More than 16 years of experience in the field of Software Development, specialized in Software Quality Assurance and Implementation of QA & Agile best practices. I have worked as Quality Assurance Lead in many organizations and improve the quality of the products and increase customer satisfaction.

I have 7 years of experience in Agile (Scrum / Kanban/ ScrumBan/ SAFe) domains. I have a proven track record of successful corporate agile transformation. I have led and managed multiple co-located, distributed and remote scrum & Kanban teams. I help teams to be cross-functional and self-organized and remove silos. I remove impediments so the team can work on their optimal capacity. Educate team about Agile & scrum and conduct trainings & workshops to develop agile mindset in the organization.

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工作经历

公司标识
Agile transformation coach
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Oct 2019 - 代表 | Karachi, Pakistan

1. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.2. Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking tasks efficiently that increased customer satisfaction.3. Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with the outcome resulting in enhanced performance.4. Coached and trained multiple geographically distributed teams, which resulted in early delivery of projects and reduced process waste caused by a lack of common understanding.5. Appoint resources as Scrum Masters and help them in conducting effective scrum ceremonies Sprint planning meetings / Sprint Review Meeting / Sprint Retrospective / Backlog grooming meetings.6. Work with the customer, product owners, and team to help prioritize, plan, estimate, and manage the scope, schedule, cost, and quality constraints on each project. Ensure that together, we define and maintain a lean and Minimum Viable Product that satisfies the customer.7. Implemented monthly \"lunch & learn\" sessions in which motivate the team to learn and teach new technical capabilities and share experiences and knowledge with teams resulting in team bonding and increasing team capabilities.8. Convince management to Initiate \"Sprinter of the Month\" award for the best team member.9. Experimenting with applying SAFe sort of framework for agile transformation. identifying Program Increment Objectives, Perform PI Planning, manage Agile release trains, Inspect & adapt sprints etc.10. Agile tool experience includes JIRA, for backlog and user story management, project metrics, and progress Tracking & Confluence11. Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions include planning, strategy, testing execution and tools. Ensures all testing standards are being met.

公司标识
Agile Coach | Scrum Master
HashMove
Feb 2018 - Sep 2019 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1. Expert at driving the adoption and enforcement of Scrum rules, removing impediments and fostering self-management.

2. Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking tasks efficiently that increased customer satisfaction.

3. Facilitated Agile adoption Retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with the outcome resulting in enhanced performance.

4. Coached and trained multiple geographically distributed teams, which resulted in early delivery of projects and reduced process waste caused by a lack of common understanding.

5. Appoint resources as Scrum Masters and help them in conducting effective scrum ceremonies Sprint planning meetings / Sprint Review Meeting / Sprint Retrospective / Backlog grooming meetings.

6. Work with the customer, product owners, and team to help prioritize, plan, estimate, and manage the scope, schedule, cost, and quality constraints on each project. Ensure that together, we define and maintain a lean and Minimum Viable Product that satisfies the customer.

7. Implemented monthly \"lunch & learn\" sessions in which motivate the team to learn and teach new technical capabilities and share experiences and knowledge with teams resulting in team bonding and increasing team capabilities.

8. Convince management to Initiate \"Sprinter of the Month\" award for the best team member.

9. Experimenting with applying SAFe sort of framework for agile transformation. identifying Program Increment Objectives, Perform PI Planning, manage Agile release trains, Inspect & adapt sprints etc.

10. Agile tool experience includes JIRA, for backlog and user story management, project metrics, and progress Tracking & Confluence

11. Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions include planning, strategy, testing execution and tools. Ensures all testing standards are being met.

公司标识
Quality Assurance Analyst | Scrum Master
Emaratech
Jan 2014 - Feb 2018 | Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1. Migrating the Projects from Waterfall to Scrum. Coaches and mentors agile team members.

2. Minimize the effect of Waterfall hangover by providing team training about agile & lean.

3. Facilitating Daily scrum meetings, sprint planning, spring review, and spring retrospective.

4. Ensure scrum process used as intended - enforcer of rules.

5. Encouraging the team for self-organization to boost the efficiency and coordination

6. Keeping the team together all the time to ensure successful sprints.

7. Motivated the team to come up with quality shippable products and meet product goals.

8. Radiated information and ensured the team\'s progress and successes are highly visible to all stakeholders, including the team itself.

9. Provide visibility to team impediments/risks and helps eliminate them also protect the team from distractions

10. Working with the Product owner on different artifacts such as Product
Backlog, Spring Backlog, Sprint Burndown, Release Burndown.

11. Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions include planning, strategy, testing execution and tools. Ensures all testing standards are being met.

12. Drive advancement of quality assurance practices across the organization.

13. Work collaboratively with the software development & project management to develop test requirements and plans to ensure thorough test coverage for each product.

14. Ensuring the technical solutions exactly match the QA standards and customer requirements.

公司标识
Quality Assurance Lead
Betterhomes LLC
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013 | Karachi, Pakistan

1. Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions include planning, strategy, testing execution and tools.

2. Test solutions, using several testing techniques Black box (GUI, Functionality and Navigational Testing), Integration testing, Sanity Testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, System testing.

3. Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.

4. Oversees all testing staff and activities for all assigned applications. Ensures all testing standards are being met.

5. Define test process including required test activities and deliverables. Identifies test resources, estimates test effort and defines test schedule and milestones.

6. Responsible for general morale and well-being of team members and team.

7. Coach and mentor team members. Lead team of software testers, but still execute all software testing lifecycle responsibilities.

8. Drive advancement of quality assurance practices across the organization.

9. Work collaboratively with software development & project management to develop test requirements and plans to ensure thorough test coverage for each product.

10. Ensuring the technical solutions exactly match the QA standards and customer requirements.

公司标识
Quality Assurance Lead
TEXPO Pakistan (Pvt.) Limited
Jan 2012 - Sep 2013 | Karachi, Pakistan

1. Responsible for management of all Quality Assurance functions include planning, strategy, testing execution and tools.

2. Oversees all testing staff and activities for all assigned applications.

3. Ensures all testing standards are being met.

4. Define test process including required test activities and deliverable.

5. Identifies test resources, estimates test effort and defines test schedule and milestones.

6. Responsible for general morale and well-being of team members and team.

7. Coach and mentor team members.

8. Lead team of software testers, but still execute all software testing life cycle responsibilities.

9. Drive advancement of quality assurance practices across the organization.

10. Work collaboratively with software development & project management to develop test requirements and plans to ensure thorough test coverage for each product.

11. Ensuring the technical solutions exactly match the QA standards and customer requirements.

公司标识
Quality Assurance Lead
Esoul Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.
Sep 2011 - Jan 2012 | Karachi, Pakistan

Esoul Consultancy connects you to the (USA) nation’s largest and most advanced repository of title data, tax data and document images. The NEW portable platform provides the tools one need to initiate, manage and close multiple search orders for properties located throughout the nation (USA).

1. Bug logging & follow-up until their verification.

2. Performed verifications & validation.

3. Test solutions, using several testing techniques Black box (GUI, Functionality and Navigational Testing), Integration testing, Sanity Testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, System testing.etc.

4. Assign task to all Testing Team members and ensure that all of them have sufficient work in the project.

5. Organize the meetings

6. Send the status report (Daily, Weekly etc.) to the management.

7. Motivate team members.

公司标识
Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Masterkey Systems
Jun 2008 - Sep 2011 | Karachi, Pakistan

I worked as Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (SQAE) in Masterkey Systems.

The mission of Masterkey Systems “To revolutionize the way property is leased, sold and managed, by providing the real estate industry with a powerful web-based software.”
Masterkey Systems is a Dubai based company. Using innovative Microsoft technologies, Masterkey Systems have provided their revolutionary product to some of the region\'s leading property developers and brokers. Masterkey Systems product line reflects today\'s cutting edge technology and their vast experience in the real estate industry.

1 Bug logging & follow-up until their verification.

2 Analyzed business requirements and Interact with CRM people for requirements clarification.

3 Performed verifications & validation.

4 Test solutions, using several testing techniques Black box (GUI, Functionality and Navigational Testing), Integration testing, Sanity Testing, Regression testing, Functional testing, System testing.etc.

5 Over 100+ build living experience and carried out the pre requisite smoke test of the application to ensure stability and reliability of the build.

6 Have done over 50 migrations and carried out tests to ensure successful migration.

7 Worked solely on numerous major functionalities like Campaigner, Web Portals, Batch Upload, Bulk Activities, Auto Matches, Client merge, Auto Setup, Customized Unit Cards throughout the development process and carried out different tests to ensure GUI, Functionality and data validation of the application till its living date.

公司标识
Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Top School Inc.
Jun 2007 - May 2008 | Karachi, Pakistan

Work as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer (SQAE) in Top School Inc.

Top School Inc is a leading provider of Student Lifecycle Management tools and services for the education industry across the globe.

1 Bug logging & follow-up until their verification (Report and tracks issues and its progress using Gemini.)

2 Analyzed business requirements

3 Interacted with client for requirements clarification

4 Performed verifications & validation

5 Analyze and understands design test specification /cases.

6 Test solutions, using several testing techniques Black box testing, Sanity
Testing, Regression testing, Functional testing etc.

7 Creation of testing scripts and test cases design and execute test cases using Selenium RC.

8 Assure performs various product testing duties to specified guidelines are being processed followed.

公司标识
Internee
Standard Chartered Bank ( PSPPL)
Apr 2007 - Jun 2007 | Karachi, Pakistan

公司标识
Jr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer
Softronic Systems (Pvt) Ltd.
Nov 2006 - Mar 2007 | Karachi, Pakistan

公司标识
Internee
Ikon Technologies.
Aug 2005 - Sep 2005 | Karachi, Pakistan

学历

Certified Scrum Professional ( CSP) from Scrum Alliance
证书, ‎
Computer Sciences and Information Technology
Completed
2017
SAFe 4.0 Agilist from Scaled Agile Inc
证书, ‎
Computer Sciences and Information Technology
Completed
2017
SAFe 4.0 PO PM Product Owner Product Manager from Scaled Agile Inc
证书, ‎
Computer Sciences and Information Technology
Completed
2017
Certified Scrum Master CSM from Scrum Alliance
证书, ‎
Computer Sciences and Information Technology
Completed
2015
PIQC
证书, Certified Software Quality Professional (CSQP)‎
Software quality
Completed
2009
S4S Academy & HRM Consultants
证书, Fundamentals of IT Audit‎
IT AUDIT
Completed
2009
HRM Services affiliated with Skill development council ministry of labour, manpower & overseas Pakistan
证书, Branch Banking Operations‎
Banking & Finance
Completed
2007
University of Huddersfield (U.K) Campus KIIT (Karachi)
学士, 理工学士, Bachelors of Science(HONS.)‎
Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Computer Software, Information System, Software Engineering
2006
DJ Sindh Govt. Science Colloge
中级/A级, , Higher Secondary School Certificate H.Sc‎
Biology
2002
Happy Home Higher Sec School
大学入学/0级, , Secondary School Certificate S.Sc.‎
Biology, Computer Sciences and Information Technology, Computer Software, Information System, Software Engineering
1997

技能

熟练 Agile Application Development
熟练 Agile Leadership
熟练 Agile Waterfall Methodologies
熟练 JIRA
熟练 Kanban
熟练 SCRUM

语言

熟练 乌尔都语
熟练 英语

Basharat 联系人

umer saeed
3D-GIT COMSATS Institute of Information Technology
SyedAltan Haider
(Nust) National University of Science & Technology Islamabad
Mobin Khalid
AHOY DMCC