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Phone: 708-***-****

acsoh1@r.postjobfree.com

Hussam Alkhatib

Objective

High level of professional experience and project management at multiple levels from the inception stage through implementation in Agile development environment. I’m looking for a professional environment to utilize my management skills and business knowledge to develop business solutions to complex technical challenges and build reliable systems.

Professional Accomplishments

Redwood Logistics July 2015 – Present

Senior QA Lead:

Manage group of seven quality assurance engineers throughout of the SDLC process.

Lead by example for testing and software inspections during system, functional, and regression test phases.

Design and implement automation test suites utilizing proprietary automation testing tools.

Design automation testing Frame Work and build automation testing suites.

Design performance testing lab based on system SLAs.

Provide Mentorship for all newly hired QA testing engineers and provide Agile process training.

Act as liaison between QA and Development team and run user acceptance testing phases.

Help development team during the TDD phases in the Agile process.

Design comprehensive test scenarios to examine product from usability prospective.

Build testing traceability matrix and report to stake holders on testing progress throughout the SDLC process.

Run testing review sessions, review test suites and help out QA team members to improve their testing abilities.

Design template for testing suits and create traceability matrix for testing coverage purposes.

Act as a liaison between product owners and developers in the case of issues management.

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Echo Global Logistics Nov 2009 – June 2015

Senior QA Lead:

Manage group of 5 on shore and off shore QA team members and lead by example for testing and software inspections.

Design and implement automation test suites utilizing Robot Frame Work and Selenium testing tool.

Implement UI automation testing suite utilizing HP Automation testing tool.

Implement performance testing suite using HP LoadRunner performance testing tool.

Mentor new QA testing engineers throughout testing life cycle.

Collaborate with other departments to develop quality products and examine product concepts that meet or exceed customer requirements.

Run testing review sessions and help out QA team members to improve their testing abilities.

Design template for testing suits and create traceability matrix for testing coverage purposes.

Act as a liaison between product owners and developers in the case of issues management.

Handle deadlines efficiently and spearhead software projects with authority.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME Jun 2006 - Oct 2009

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer:

Performed QA and system testing tasks throughout the FXMS project and initiate business requirements and ensure execution of all system testing.

Identified and analyze risks throughout the system testing life cycle and assemble detailed solutions based on project requirements and deadlines.

Establish and manage clear communications channels at highest levels all to help lining up project activities special testing progress.

Build a comprehensive testing suite and build traceability matrix for testing coverage purposes.

Facilitate QA and team meeting among involved developers and QA team members.

Execute comprehensive testing suite and manage cross team testing defects.

Setup and run daily QA meeting and setup progress checkup points.

Run testing analysis report and setup a cross team dependency meeting for testing accuracy purposes.

Mobitrac Inc. Sept 2004 - May 2006

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer:

Managed, defined, and implemented a standard set of manual testing practices and procedures.

Generate procedures for the deployment of Mobitrac application in Internet environments for use by team members and customers.

Developed sophisticated manual testing process consisting of intermediate environments for integration, system and user acceptance testing.

Created and developed a full suite of manual test cases and test scenarios that fully covered Mobitrac application.

Define and construct manual testing categories using Rally Tracking System.

Define control data set for all manual testing scripts and manual testing scenarios.

Created a full data depository that is customer specific to accommodate customer specific scenarios.

Define functional tracking metrics.

Investigate and implement customer specific simulation environment.

Developed an Execution results capture process and communicated results to project managers and developers.

Develop detailed Technical Testing Plans.

Create load and balance testing plans to test application stability and resiliency.

Define test categories that are derived from story cards and customer/business requirements.

Created Performance / stress testing plan that included Single component software failure Single component hardware failure LAN / WAN transient failures Backup and recovery test plans and test scenarios.

Define technical test tracking metrics and Performance Testing Metrics.

Defined as a set of activities whose purpose is to demonstrate that an entity meets all quality requirements.

Coordinate the testing effort and hold defect tracking meeting with project managers to insure that system’s deficiencies have been addressed and fixed.

Provide feedback and about the system under test to management team and customers.

Define and implement testing process the fits in XP software development cycles

Apropos Technology June 2001 - Oct 2004

Quality Assurance Engineer:

Managed a group of 4 testers and 4 developers. I have designed, created and executed manual test plans and test procedures based on customer and business requirements while following SW development methodology and QA standards.

Analyzed test results communicated the findings and recommendations to team the development team and found resolution to issues.

Build and managed QA testing lab and its software and hardware components.

Installed, maintained and support Mercury Test suit: Test Director, WinRunner and LoadRunner.

Performed a lead role for integration and system testing of applications that were developed in C#,.NET, XML, HTML, and ASP.NET with SQL and Oracle9i technologies.

Act in a mentoring role for new and low level QA Engineers.

Created and executed automated test cases for Web based applications that were developed under windows and UNIX environments.

Build a QA department and set procedures for QA team member to follow during the SW development life cycle.

Ameritech Telecommunication Inc ( AT&T) July 1997 - May 2001

Quality Assurance Analyst:

Established dialogues with various business units regarding the need to verify software, hardware, and architectural reliability and integrity.

Author test strategy, manual test plans and test cases scenarios following Anderson Consulting Method One SDC.

Assess the test environment needs; identify possible employment of automated testing tools and or external resources.

Automate a suite of test cases and test scenarios using WinRunner and LoarRunner for load balance testing.

Perform and analyze middleware, legacy and network architecture performance timings, performance degradation and user capacity at average peak and load level.

Defined entrance and exit criteria as well as verified all SLA with regards to performance criteria.

Testing included: Manual GUI functionality, performance and architectural and integrity verifications.

Activities include quality planning, quality control, quality assurance, and quality improvement.

Analyze test results and testing data for compliance and for data integrity.

CCH Incorporated April 1994 – July 1997

Quality Assurance Engineer:

Lead and mentor a group of software testers. Monitor individual testers’ accomplishments. Provide direction and feed back to management team.

Manual and automated regression testing of all CCH business applications.

Execute manual test cases for new implemented features; integrate new features into an existing automated test suite using QA Partner. Also maintain and enhance testing suite.

Test cases and test suit documentation. For each test initiative create high level test cases and further refine into detailed test scripts outlining environment setup and testing approach.

Test environment creation. Install and configure CCH software on multiple platforms: UNIX, DOS, and Windows. Install all subsequent software and data connections.

Appraise test results and communicate the output to management members.

Education:

Master of Business Administration. Primary focus Information Systems. Keller Graduate Schools of Management.

B.S. in Computer Science. Primary focus on telecommunication Minor in Mathematics.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND CERTIFICATIONS:

Windows 2010 server and advance server

Windows Exchange Server 5.5

MCST Windows NT 4.0 Server

MCST Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise.

MCP in Internet Information Server

Member of Quality Assurance Institute.

SCRUM Master Certificate of Training Completion.

Member of Software Quality Assurance Society.

Languages and Packages:

C#, Visual Basic, .NET, HTML,XML,ASP.NET,C,C++, and Visual C++

Familiar with: J2EE.

Software:

Database: Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Access, Oracl9i, Sybase

Platforms: Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows XP, UNIX, and Win2x

Protocols:

Mostly familiar with SMTP, HTTP, XML, XSL, TCP/IP, FIX protocol.

Most of protocol packages in the industry

Telephony protocols VoIP.

Software Packages:

HP WinRunner, HP LoadRunner, HP TestDirector and MacroExpress automation tool, GIRA and VersionOne Agile process management tool.

Additional Information:

Multi lingual; Arabic and English

United States Citizen

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