ABBAS SADIQ

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Manchester – United Kingdom

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PROFILE:

Over 12 years of Experience to work as a Passionate Quality Assurance professional for product and process development. Specialized in testing mobile and enterprise level web applications for financial sector that include sub systems: invoicing management, procurement system, SRM & CMS. Experience with Real Estate including property management, tenant management, Brics cad drawings, property Audits, payment systems and Land management system. Overall, I have served the leading software development companies that specialize in the development of large-scale business solution built in complex environments. Working experience in Agile and waterfall SDLCs using traditional and scenario-based testing including Identify and report security, Performance and UX issues of web and mobile device applications. Defining quality Assurance processes and workflow for development and defect management using VSTS, Axosoft and Project manager. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Job Title: QA Lead (August 2016 - Date )

Employer: Micad Systems - UK Real Estate and property management System Responsibilities: Leading Quality Assurance practices of core product (Web and Mobile) for Automation and Manual Testing throughout release pipeline under Agile scrum paradigm. Responsible for Specification review, test scenario designing, execution and defect reporting. Functional testing, Non-functional testing (performance vulnerability, usability), Automated testing, Manual testing, Regression testing, Sprint testing, Back end testing (SQL)

Define, maintain Quality Assurance & business processes and advise principles to optimize quality assurance practices in alignment with business goals. Document processes and distribute to all stakeholders for review and sign off. Staff training & development for newly introduced processes, practices and tools to get them engaged and optimise their work.

Resources management for STLC (bug triage, test planning, test scripting & execution, test reporting, testing resources) and report to directors and stakeholders. Plan testing resources aligned with forthcoming release

Supervise and involve in automation testing of software during testing life cycle for functional testing including API Testing using postman.

Ownership and administration of VSTS to define and maintain Defect management processes, defect workflows and project templates, user security, reporting dashboards management, maintain bug queries using WIQL

Ownership and administration of Axosoft to define and maintain workflows, templates, filters and Dashboards for KPIs and Project costs based on estimates.

Ownership and administration of Walk Me platform to define user journeys and designing system support products to Enhance User Experience (UX) using following WalkMe apps: Smart walk-Thrus, Launchers, ShoutOuts, SmartTips, Resources, Onboarding, Shuttles, Surveys.

Certification of WalkMe courses from WalkMe university and implementation of UX paradigms across organisation.

Testing of WalkMe scenarios against user stories sand implemented UX journeys. Advise WalkMe improvements to increase user experience.

Projects: Micad4(Core Product), Agreements, Cleaning Audits web & Cleaning Audits Mobile, UWP Tools: Visual Studio Team Services, Axosoft, Test studio (Automation testing & Performance Testing), Cliffy, Smart draw, Cross-browser testing, Jenkins, Hockey App, HP Load Runner, HP ALM, HP Sprinter Job Title: Senior Test Analyst ( May 2016 - July 2016) Employer: Amaze - UK Full delivery digital solutions Responsibilities: Test Manager (hands on) and full in charge of Emirates airline and Wall mart (ASDA) projects Projects: Emirates airline, Dnata, wall mart (ASDA), Virgin trains East Coast, Pizza Hut, NSPCC, Lexus Tools: Tridion, EPiServer, Crossbrowsertesting, Atlassian, Confluence, Jira Job Title: Senior Test Analyst (Sep 2012 - May 2016) Employer: Wax Digital - UK Purchase 2 Pay, Source 2 Pay, SRM Responsibilities: Leading core product in scrum as an embedded tester and improve Quality Assurance processes and principles to optimize quality assurance practices

Test Planning, Test scripting, execution and defects reporting, static review of functional requirements. Smoke testing, Regression Testing, Re- Testing and defect management. Test resources management, cycle test results report to QA Manager and stakeholders

Work with offshore team members (Video Conference and evaluate project progress and planning test cycles. Handover demo test, performance testing and sign off) Projects: Web3 (P2P System), Universal Music, WWF, Durham University, Vinci -Facilities, Sheffield City Council, State of Jersey, Nissan

Tools: HP Quality Centre (ALM), HP Sprinter, Bug Tracker, Selenium, Web Driver, Robot Framework, C++ Job Title: Software QA Engineer (Sep 2005 - Sep 2012) Employer: AEDSYS - Pakistan Leasing, Financial & Tenant Management Responsibilities: FRS Review, Test planning, Test Case Development, execution and defect reporting

Liable for the verification & validation activities throughout the life cycle of assigned enterprise level projects. Key project includes web-based enterprise management system Projects: Pan Emirates, DIRE, DDRE, Cosmos Insurance Tools: QTP 9.2, MS Project, MS Visio, MS Office, Bad Boy, SVN tortoise, Trac TECHNICAL & MANAGEMENT SKILLS:

QA

Frameworks:

Creation and Maintenance of QA processes to achieve organisational objectives using guidelines of ISO, CMMI, IEEE and Lean management including functional and non-functional testing and defect management processes throughout release pipeline. Experience of working close with higher management to advice and establish the direction for quality management across organisation Testing Skills: Execution and management of following testing functions throughout Software Testing Life cycle: Test Plan, Test Strategy, Test resource planning, Defect management, Test Reporting, Python Non-functional (Accessibility, Usability, Performance, User Experience and security testing), Functional Testing (Integration, System, User Acceptance, Cross Browser, Responsive website), Mobile testing (IOS and android), Automated testing, Back end testing, SQL, Jenkins, Continuous Delivery Management: Team Management, Task allocation, Testing resource management EDUCATION:

Sep 2018 - 2019 MSC Security Management (Distance Learning - UK) Feb 2010 - 2011 Qualifications in Leadership & Management (UK) Sep 2005 - 2007 MS in Computer Science (IUB - Pakistan) Sep 2001 - 2005 Bachelor of Information Technology (AIOU - Pakistan) CERTIFICATIONS:

ITIL Foundation certification will be completed in September 2018 ISEB - ISTQB British Computing Society - UK

User Experience OPEN 2 STUDY- Australia

QMS Auditor IRCA -UK

SQA Engineer Net sol Technologies - Pakistan

ADDITIONAL:

Nationality: British

Languages: Fluent in English, Urdu, Punjabi & Basic level of Arabic Relocation: Available for Re-location

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