Sr. Engineering Manager, QA and Testing.

WAQAR H CHEEMA

**** ******* ** # ***, **** Valley, CA 93063, USA.

Phone: 469-***-****, E-mail: *******@*****.***

Objective:

To obtain Sr. Manager QA and Testing Position that provides career

development and leading opportunities.

Education:

Bachelor of Science, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Eastern Mediterranean University

Professional Summary:

Sr. Engineering Manager of Quality Assurance and Testing with more than

fourteen years of experience in managing QA and testing field projects

including more than ten years of experience in management role Leading and

managing large multiple cross functional teams of onsite and offshore

people with multiple product lines including Security & Fire products,

Enterprise Content Servers, Module Compatibility and integration,

Blackberry Enterprise Servers, Mobile Applications, graphical devices,

Desktop Applications, Web Base Applications and services, Network Security

Products and Enterprise content management suite of products in

Client/Server environment. Work closely with Product Management group,

business analysts, program management, Technical Support, and Development

Engineering teams to Plan multiple years of project road maps, Time lines,

project budgeting, revenue growth opportunities and implement these Plans

to achieve objectives and goals set for the organization's success. Define

high Level project Test Strategies and master test plans to Provide

guidance in development of comprehensive test approach and scope, Oversees

the execution of comprehensive testing strategies to include, but not

limited to, functional, integration, regression, performance, user

acceptance and Automation testing. Present a strategic testing approach

including SQA methodologies; define QA processes, driving test methods,

risk analysis, QA metrics reporting, and resource planning to executive

teams. Evaluate software functional requirements; Design specifications to

create comprehensive test approach, cost and time estimates, equipments

need and Oversee to ensure the quality of test plans, test cases, test

matrix, and bug reporting are in place for QA projects. Provide detailed

status using test Matrix of each active project, including overall product

quality, outstanding bugs, test progress, automation achievements,

milestones achieved and upcoming milestones to executive teams, Highly

Experienced using Agile and Waterfall development processes. Experience in

leading testing effort for entire product system with capability to

understand technology details and responsible for delivering end to end

product lines to customers with highest standards of quality. Work with

clients, internal process leaders and their team to discuss opportunities

to improve processes (quality, cost, efficiency and effectiveness) from a

customer and organizational perspective. Host and Drive bug triages.

Oversee Alpha and beta process, Perform in challenging situations, Strong

problem solving skills, highly analytical, detail oriented and

Enthusiastic, motivated and self-driven.

Professional Experience:

Mar/2013 - Present Sr. Engineering Manager, QA & Testing

Johnson Controls, Inc

. Manage and Lead multiple cross functional onsite and offshore teams

including QA and Testing, UI/UX, Technical Support, and Agency

Compliance.

. Lead test efforts for JCI Security & Fire products using P2000

Management system including variety of 3rd party Products and manage

multiple programs and projects for testing.

. Analyze and evaluate business situations, production capabilities,

economic trends, design and development of processes for consideration

presented by other members of management team to improve quality.

. Collaborate with other top management personnel in formulating and

establishing company policies, operating procedures, and goals.

. Leading the planning, organizing, and implementing the test regime for

delivery projects/programs and providing leadership for a multi-

disciplinary team of Quality Assurance Managers, Technical leaders,

and process analysts in planning and performing major release testing.

. Providing technical and analytical support to release test team

members ensuring adherence to quality standards and reviews release

deliverables.

. Monitor test system configurations, lead test executions and reviews

test cases and scripts for integrated systems establish goals and

objectives for appropriate release testing cycles and share results

with executives.

. Implementing test processes on integrated system releases, writes test

strategy and plans, oversees the writing of procedures and scripts,

and analyzes test results, Provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring

on Quality Assurance testing processes to release staff to improve

their ability to deliver to Quality Assurance standards

. Manage Web API testing project using SOA and Restful architecture and

testing efforts with SOAP UI Pro Tool.

. Provide thought leadership on the use of Quality Assurance testing

tools such as Quality Center, JIRA, TFS, and process to ensure the

client delivers the highest possible quality software aligned with IT

industry best practices.

. Lead and provide assistance to technical support groups in resolving

Customer facing issues and use sales force Tool to track the progress

and assign ownership for these issues to teams for better resolution

and management.

. Strong understand of testing and delivering business solutions

delivered in SaaS models.

. Solid experience in managing Agency testing team for certifications,

Safety and compliance of JCI's products.

. Experienced in managing testing team to test firm ware on embedded and

variety of controller's products.

. Solid experience managing Localization testing activities on ARS and

security management product lines.

. Manage Internal and external Audits with clients and Customers to give

overview of processes and methods.

. Experience in developing test automation strategy and process and deep

understanding of Agile and Safe Model.

July/2011 - Jan/2013 Manager and Lead Test Engineer

Texas Instruments, Inc/Randstad Technology

. Manage multiple project teams with QA & Test analysts to carry out

test efforts for multiple projects.

. Extensive experience in testing desktop applications, emulators,

hardware and embedded software devices.

. Hands on functional, performance, integration, system, UAT, backend

and regression testing.

. Involve in decision making process to choose appropriate test tools

for effective test execution.

. Define and improve test process, test methodologies to provide

coverage using best QA Practices.

. Write project test strategies, test plans to provide guidance in

development of overall testing approach.

. Use traceability matrices to track requirements to test cases and bugs

to track project progress.

. Manage to work closely with automation team to define testing scope

for product features.

. Work closely with product development managers, business analysts, and

product designers to understand product design and test scope.

. Hands on in writing test cases, use cases, and logging issues in bug's

management systems.

. Analyze functional, system and design specification documents to

understand customer's requirements.

. Responsible for assisting in monitoring of project progress, ensuring

new products function in accordance with specified requirements. Works

according to AGILE principles and methodologies.

. Lead automated testing initiatives provide guidelines to setup test

scripts using frame work for execution.

. Exceptional abilities designing/implementing test plans, test cases,

and test scripts.

. Increase initial quality and release quality of products.

. Experience and demonstrable success with the full software development

lifecycle (SDLC).

. Developed and maintaining a reference library of written material and

reports that will assist the QA department in meeting the quality

objectives.

. Coordinate with product management on roadmaps and operational

improvement activities across the environment with accountability for

continuously raising the bar on operating level agreement targets.

. Setting direction for the preparation and delivery of regular

management reports on the daily/weekly/monthly operations status.

. Extensive experience in managing testing teams performs Localization

testing for different product lines.

Feb/2008 - June/2011 Sr. Software QA Analyst

Open Text Corporation

. Manage and Lead multiple teams to perform testing on highly complex

quality assurance projects.

. Monitor and Tested Content enterprise servers, enterprise Content

management, and module compatibility products to ensure highest

quality delivery of software.

. Manages and provides processes to ensure defects are identified,

tracked, analyzed, corrected, and closed.

. Extensive hands on experience as QA representative on complex new and

maintenance projects.

. Multitasking, manages multiple projects workload and act independently

and under general direction.

. Ensures all testing processes are followed and provides metrics and

reporting as requested.

. Mentors and trains teams on testing methodologies and procedures.

. Create a high performance Quality focused culture throughout software

testing teams.

. Knowledge of user, Macro and Micro stories, and experience in web

based application testing and web services.

April/2005 - Dec/2007 Team Lead, Software Verification & Validation

Research in Motion

. Manage blackberry enterprise server and handheld teams to test mobile

applications, services and components.

. Tested and managed mobile applications, attachment, Collaboration,

mobile data connection, synchronization services, IT policies, device

manager using blackberry handheld devices.

. Lead QA teams, allocate resources, provide risk assessments and act as

first point of contact for all projects.

. Experience in manage and testing blackberry device and security

management, BB device and BES level projects.

. Oversee to ensure the quality of test plans, test cases, test matrix,

and bug reporting.

. Provide detailed status of each active project, including overall

product quality, outstanding bugs, test progress, automation

achievements, milestones achieved and upcoming milestones.

. Initiate presentations to internal customers and external clients

about QA processes and Requirements.

. Monitor, track, and report test status and bug statistics to

Management on regular bases.

. Experience in web based applications and browser compatibility testing

for product features.

Feb/2000- Jan/2005 Sr. Test Engineer Netcontinuum, Inc

. Extensive experience in testing security products using SSL and PKI

functionalities.

. Experience is creating and managing Keys, certificates, dn-templates,

trusted certificates, signing certificates, signing certificate-

requests, trusted-certificates, and verify certificates.

. Managed testing in client/server environment and use CA's VeriSign,

Thawte, and Entrust for security testing.

. Responsible for testing on security product, configure test

environments, writing test scenarios, test cases, test plan and

strategies and generate traceability metrics to track project

progress.

. Experience developing and testing entire systems, with capability to

understand details of the technology.

. Communicative, detail oriented and manage large projects with multiple

teams.

. Extensive experience in command line and graphical user Interface

testing.

Technical Skills:

OS Platform: Linux, Window 7, XP, 2003/2008/2012 Servers.

Testing Tools: Dev Track, Bugzilla, JIRA, Huntar, HP Quality Center, CBR,

RIDE, Robot FW, Soap UI Pro, QTP, Sales Force.

Databases: SQL 2005/2008 & Oracle 10g, UTF-8 DB Conversion.

Languages: C/C++, Java and .NET developed base project are tested.

Development Processes: Waterfall and Agile development.

Skill Set: SDLC, Leadership, Test coordination, Technical support, Change

control, Tech writing, Web based testing,

Business Analyst, Process Improvement, project

management, Test case management systems, consulting,

Cross functional Teams, onsite and offshore management,

Triage Management, Oversee Testing efforts,

Saas model, Planning and Strategic vision, Leading test

Teams, Customer Engagement, Market Trends,

Managing Priorities, Release deliverables, Product

development life cycle, Manage QA and test Managers,

Firm ware, hardware and software test, Test Reporting

metrics, Risk Management, Localization testing,

Manage Internal and External Audits, Situational

Leadership, Systematic Software Testing, Consulting,

Testing life cycle, Program management, Team building.

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