Software Management

Wasim Akhtar

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Personal Profile

• Extensive software test experience in Financial, Government, Health, Private and Public sectors.

• Familiarity of test leadership, requirements analyses, test strategy, planning and execution across

various projects, exploring a diverse range of technologies, platforms and environments.

• Management and support of third party contractors based in Moldova, Russia and USA.

• Working closely with product managers / customers in offering requirements analyses and UAT

support.

• Highly skilled in Technical Testing: resiliency, failover, load-balancers, installation and data

migration using technologies including UNIX, SQL, Oracle, Websphere, Glassfish and IIS.

• Ability to collaborate with a wide range of project stakeholders: Customers, Business

Analysts, Management, UAT teams, Technical Architects and Developers.

• Working in conformance to many Software Development and Testing Methodologies: Agile,

SCRUM, Waterfall, Iterative and Role Based.

• Strong grasp of Test Tools: Mercury Quality Centre, Winrunner, Devtrack and JTrac.

• Summary of Test Skills: Test Strategy Test Scripting Test Planning Test Management

Environment configuration Specification Review GUI Testing Data Integrity Testing System

Integrity Testing Usability Testing Data Migration Testing Installation Testing Resiliency

Testing Accessibility Testing Data Feed Testing Database Script Testing Production

Integration Testing Test Release Configuration UAT Support UAT Testing UML

• Summary of Technical Tools: Quality Center TeamTrack Winrunner Jtrack Websphere

Glassfish Oracle Unix SQL Developer mySQL SQL Plus Vignette Autonomy

Stellent Perl PHP HTML JavaScript Dreamweaver Java C++

Professional Experience

QA Work Stream Lead: Thomson Reuters, Nottingham, England 09/08 – 05/13

• Planned, scripted and executed tests on a number of software products for use by large-

multinational financial corporations to administer accounts for trading.

• Tested reporting software to track conversational trading / dealing in the trading community to meet

the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Customer Protection Act.

• Managed and supported both in-house and third party test teams based in several countries

across Europe and the USA.

• Managed Test Environments: Coordinated day-to-day builds across multiple environments and

tracked build numbers & environment configuration.

• Performed technical testing, through planning and execution of the following tests:

Installation: Execution, review and feedback of official installation documents / software

to be used in production environments.

Resiliency and failover: Testing the robustness of a number of components of a release

including database servers, application platforms, load-balancers and IIS.

Setting up test and install environments: System Test, SIT, DIT and UAT.

Data Migration

Software installation / upgrades

End-to-End testing

• Served as the primary point of contact for staff working in System Test, Integration Test, Data

Integration Test and UAT environments.

• Worked independently to meet time sensitive deadlines.

• Reported test progress / requirement coverage to management and stakeholders on a daily basis.

• Ran daily defect meetings with both Developers and Testers.

• Utilized the Agile project methodology, with several iterative development/testing tasks over the

project lifecycle.

• Skills acquired: Financial Markets and Trading. Dodd Frank Act. Agile SDLC. SCRUM.

• Tools / Technical: Quality Centre 9,10 & 11, TeamTrack, Websphere 6.1.0.31, Glassfish 3.1 to

3.1.2.2, Oracle (versions 8,9,10 & 11), Unix, SQL Developer, SQL Plus, IIS.

Senior Software Test Analyst: Capita Plc, Derby, England 06/07 – 09/08

• Led small teams through a full test lifecycle of projects.

• Reported daily progress and problems / resolutions to management.

• Worked independently and personally handled all troubleshoots.

• Provided full UAT support and training for the client, including advice on test scripting & data set-

up.

• Ran daily defect meetings with the client.

• Clients: Driving Standards Agency.

• Skills acquired: Leadership skills. Progress reviews and reporting. Building relationships with the

customer. Ownership and accountability while working towards tight deadlines.

Software Tester: Morse Plc, Derby, England 12/05 - 06/07

• Liaised with business representatives to ensure system requirements were accurately identified

from initial scoping studies until final implementation.

• Analysed and documented user requirements to then create specification documentation.

• Produced test strategies, test progress reports and created & executed test scripts across a range

of functions.

• Clients: Houses of Parliament, Crown Prosecution Service, Birmingham City Council, Nuffield

Proactive & Coop.

• Skills acquired: Test execution, strategy and methodology Mercury test tools to administrator

level. Defect Management 2nd Line Support Incident Analysis and Problem Incident

Management Autonomy Search Engine Vignette Content Management Stellent Content

Management.

Web Developer: Blue Flag, Halifax, England 04/05 - 12/05

• Designed a new website for the sale and maintenance of gas boilers and central heating.

• Supported and maintained company servers and computer equipment including software installs

and upgrades.

• Tools / Technical: Perl, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, mySQL, Dreamweaver.

Software Tester: Electronic Arts, Vancouver, Canada 01/04

- 09/04

• Tested entertainment software on multiple gaming platforms.

• Designed and developed test scripts to accommodate changes to the software or requirements.

• Performed continuous regression testing and reviewed results of defects over the course of the

testing phase.

• Skills acquired: Communication skills with all levels of management and development teams.

Experience of working on large-scale projects.

Helpdesk Support Technician (Internship): Time Computers, Burnley, Lancashire 04/02 - 09/02

• University Internship providing hands-on experience in the manufacture, sales and support of PCs.

Software Engineer (Internship): Twinwave GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany 07/01 - 12/01

• University Internship providing hands-on experience in the software solutions industry.

Summary of Education / Qualifications

Jan ‘07 ISEB/ISQTB Foundation in Software Testing

Three-day course followed by exam provided by E-Testing.

Sept ’99 – June ‘03 BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering

Sheffield Hallam University, Pond Street, Sheffield, England.

Sep ’94 – June ’99: A-level passes in Computing, Sociology. As-level pass in Physics

9 GCSE passes, including English, Mathematics and Computing

Oakbank School, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England.

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