Quality Assurance Project Management

Ahmed Bilal Saleem

*************@*****.*** • +92-323-******* • • Islamabad, Pakistan

A seasoned professional with over a decade of experience spanning Product Ownership, Quality Assurance, and Agile Project Management. Known for strategic vision, meticulous attention to detail and a customer-focused approach that exceeds expectations. Proficient in ensuring product quality, managing projects, delivering successful global software applications and leading teams to success.

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

● Most recent successful projects https://vidivet.com/vet/ & https://www.clik.audio/

● Well versed working in Agile Ecosystem and possesses hands-on experience in task management, risk analysis and impact analysis while performing my duties

● Well versed working with different stakeholders e.g. Founders, Product managers, Senior engineers

● Proficient in both written and verbal communication, adept at collaborating with offshore and in-house teams.

● Highly skilled in data analysis using different user action tracking tools like “Amplitude” for better/informed decision making and measuring performance of a feature or an overall product

● Highly skilled in implementation of product’s Testing strategy & QA processes

● Comfortable working with different tools JIRA, Miro, Trello, bitbucket, bamboo, bitrise, & AWS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WE ARE NOVA PVT LTD Islamabad/London

Product Owner Scrum Master 2022-2024

● Well versed in building strong relationships with key stakeholders including founders, customers and development teams, gathering feedback, managing expectations, and ensuring alignment on product priorities

● Created and maintained a comprehensive product roadmap that prioritized features and enhancements based on product requirements and vision using miro

● Prioritized and managed product backlog, ensuring alignment with the MVP and other business requirements

● Translated high level product requirements to Epics and detailed User Stories in JIRA

● Collaborated closely with development teams in the BLR sessions, enabling accurate estimations and timely delivery of valuable features

● Collaborated closely with development teams in Sprint review/planning and retrospective ceremonies

● Managed Sprints in JIRA & kept a track of progress using different useful JIRA reports e.g. Burndown chart, Velocity chart

● Utilized tools like Amplitude for data analysis, creating dashboards to assess users MoM conversions and churn, was able to uncover users drop off points on product signups and collaborated with the team and reduced the drop off rate significantly

● Wire framing and UI/UX design collaboration with designers team in UK WE ARE NOVA PVT LTD Islamabad/London

Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer 2016-2022

Led a team in testing hybrid mobile applications and middleware, ensuring quality across AWS infrastructure and various project health monitoring tools

Performed API testing using Postman and conducted security audits of REST APIs, providing improvement suggestions to developers

Conducted functional testing of complex web applications requiring hardware integration

Performed database testing on both SQL and NoSQL platforms, including MongoDB and DynamoDB

Owned the QA/QC process within the team, continuously seeking improvements

Implemented Selenium WebDriver/TestNG framework for web automation and trained team members

Advocated for UI/UX user needs during testing

Tested middleware and databases for Fintech applications, including payment gateways e.g. PayPal and Stripe

Monitored application security and performance using Jmeter

Mentored and groomed junior QA team members and interns

Worked closely with product teams to ensure a shared understanding of requirements

Assisted the product owner in prioritizing the backlog for improvements and managing technical debt

Collaborated directly with application founders to better understand the product vision & mission

Collaborated with senior managers and CTO on project health and team performance GLOBAL RESCUE LLC (GRID) Islamabad

Software Quality Assurance Engineer 2014-2016

● Tested Complex automated workflows in Dynamics CRM that involved financial transactions

● Performed detailed database testing & API testing for 3rd party integrations with our system

● Worked with product owners and business analysts to aggregate business requirements documents and build functional test plans

● Worked with development teams through the design and test stages to ensure strict adherence to business requirements

● Did active collaboration with design team & suggested major design improvements throughout the development process

CODE INFORMATICS PVT LTD Islamabad

Associate Quality Assurance Engineer 2012-2014

● Involved in the testing as a trainee test engineer on HBL Express Compliance management system for branchless banking in Pakistan

● Successfully tested and delivered WHO’s World food program project named as ITS (invoice tracking system) EDUCATION

MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH UNIVERSITY Islamabad, PK

MS Engineering Management

AIR UNIVERSITY Islamabad, PK

BS Computer Science

REFERENCES

RICHARD DEAN - HEAD OF PRODUCT ******************@*****.***

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