Quality Assurance Project Manager
Resume:
Gulnar Ali
*********@*****.***
Dallas, Texas
US CITIZEN
Linkedin@ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gulnar-ali-job-seeking-it-quality-assurance/14/837/22b
Position Seeking | Levels of Knowledge & Experience
• IT Quality Assurance lead, Management: 11 Years of experience with 90% Manual & 10% Automation, Expert Level, Interested in gaining knowledge with automation testing.
• Jr. IT Project Management: 2 Years of experience, Interested in growing from “Specialist level” to “Expert level”, Earned 80 approved PDU’s + 180 hours of online PM training.
• Business Analysis: : 1 Years of experience, Interested in growing from “Specialist level” to “Expert level”, Earned 40 approved PDU’s+ 30 hours of online BA training.
• HP Quality Center (QC) Managed, Mentor, Support, Admin: 8 Years of experience.
• Microsoft Office Project 2007 & 2010 Schedule & Manage: 3 Years of experience.
OBJECTIVE
Seeking IT Quality assurance software testing and or Quality assurance software testing lead/ management position, along with my professional experience makes me an excellent candidate for this position; I’m also open to Jr. IT project manager position with my knowledge earned through online training for Project Management & some actual project manager experience.
OVERVIEW OF QUALITY ASSURANCE SOFTWARE TESTING & MANAGEMENT EXPERINCE
Quality Assurance Software Testing & Management 11 years of extensive experience in Quality Assurance process guidance in managing QA department and overall expectations pertaining to setting accurate schedules, costs and resources, delivery against QA department goals and objectives, ensured i.e. Meeting commitments and coordinating overall quality assurance schedule, provided necessary, development and deployment of product quality assurance strategy, addressing all phases of product development, Directly supervises quality assurance team lead, quality assurance engineers and testers including the preparation and delivery of staff performance evaluations and career development activities, troubleshooting and high tier support, establish Quality Assurance process, policy, documentation and maintain all QA activates, reviewed documentation before is sent out to external customers, established policy for end user experience on all products, managed and responds to software quality assurance issues with related groups such as development, database, integration, and customer support.
OVERVIEW OF IT E-COMMERCE PROJECT MANAGEMENT EXPERINCE
(Specialist Level) Project Manager I was responsible for developing and execute Project Management plans including ,schedules, milestones, critical paths, project scope along with responsible of (creating and maintaining projects with Microsoft Project 2007, 2010 as a Master Scheduler).
IT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Latest Experience :
(HP) Hewlett-Packard (Contractor) http://www.hp.com/
HP Hewlett-Packard is an American multinational information technology corporation.
Quality Assurance Software Testing lead/ HP Quality Center Trainer- Contract Position
From September 2011 – Present
Quality Center – Toad - Unix – SQL | Black Box | Functional |System regression Integration
UAT | Front-end Backend | Security testing ad-hoc, host-Translation Smoke, sanity compatibly browser Positive/negative data | Translation host | Microsoft Office project web access
Microsoft Visio | Microsoft Word | Microsoft Excel | Microsoft Outlook | Microsoft PowerPoint
Quality Assurance Software Testing Lead I was responsible of driving, managing (Multiple 7-Eleven) projects with different tasks with different positions, evaluated software quality, managed quality assurance activities to ensure it meets quality expectations & provided training on Quality Center testing tool well as managed testing with quality center.
Quality Assurance Lead Responsibility:
Working with Project Managers and developers at all stages to promote quality, directly mentor & leaded mainframe testers for QA process as a Quality Assurance Team Lead, managed projects and overall expectations pertaining to setting accurate schedules, deliverable, ensured delivery against QA goals and objectives, i.e. meeting commitments and coordinating overall quality assurance schedule, responsible of creating task and checklists for software deployment & Provided effective communication regarding issues, objectives, initiatives and performance to plan, managed the planning and execution of product testing efforts, including all associated resources to meet committed delivery dates, responsible and accountable of flagging the timing of interdepartmental deliverables and the quality of their output, Worked with project managers to develop project schedules and resource allocation models for QA related projects and other activities such as software deployment, customer integration, and professional services validation.
• Production support
• Troubleshooting and high tier support.
• Documentation management
• Establish and maintain policy for documentation of all products.
Reviews documentation before is sent out to external customers.
• Process management
• Implements ongoing quality improvement processes working with interdepartmental teams.
Maintains product consistency throughout project cycle, to include the design, define and build phases through quality checkpoints and testing.
Develop and manage quality assurance metrics for performance improvement of all teams.
• Organizational liaison
• Managed and responded to software quality assurance issues with related groups such as development, database, integration, and customer support.
• Quality management
• Anticipated program release problems and takes corrective action, escalating as needed, to resolve and achieve commitments.
Assured the viability, functionality and effectiveness of essential tools.
• Deployment and delivery
Quality Assurance HP Quality Center Trainer Responsibility:
HP Quality Center Training: Trained & mentor co-worker with (Quality Center) on Specifying Releases and Cycles, Specifying Requirements, Planning Tests, Defining Test Sets and Adding Tests, Running Tests, Adding, Updating, and Linking Defects, Change Alerts, Reports and Graphs along with managing QC with ongoing projects.
Sr. Quality Assurance Responsibility:
• Producing test plans and ensuring they are followed, well as leading test plan with client
• Producing test cases document & leading test cases review meetings
• Assigning work to QA analysts & mentoring QA’s through quality assurance process
• Performed Black Box, Functional, System, Regression, Integration, UAT, Back End, Security Testing, and Ad-hoc
• Producing and prioritizing bug reports
• Reproducing bug reports from the field and writing clear steps to reproduce
• Running cross-platform testing (as 1A host tester)
• Verifying requirements have been met
• Working with developers to perform root-cause analysis and preliminary problem diagnosis
• Attend the regular client call and discuss the weekly status & ad-hoc tasks.
HDV-Vest Wells Fargo (Contractor) http://www.hdvest.com/
Awarded Winner of multiple financial planning awards, H.D. Vest has helped thousands of tax professionals add financial planning services to their practices and boost their client service offerings.
Quality Assurance Software Testing Manager/IT Project Management - Contract Position
From December 2009 – August 2011
Quality Center/Test Director – Admin – Trainer- User |QTP – SQL – MS Project 2010 Scheduler
Black Box | Functional | System regression Integration | UAT | Front-end Backend |Microsoft Office project web access | Microsoft Visio | Microsoft Word | Microsoft Excel | Microsoft Outlook | Microsoft PowerPoint
Primacy Role for Quality Assurance Manager :
Quality Assurance Manager I Implemented QA methodologies, promoting quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organization, setting Quality Assurance compliance objectives and ensuring that targets are achieved, establishing clearly defined quality methods, documents for Quality Assurance staff to apply, bringing together staff of different disciplines and driving the group to plan, formulate and agree comprehensive quality procedures, ensuring tests and procedures are properly understood, carried out and evaluated.
Primacy Role for Project Manager my important responsibility was to implement, manage project from initiation, planning, execution, monitor & control for E-commerce application referring to buying and selling products; during the planning phase as a project managers I worked towards defining the project's scope, moving forward towards completion phase - well as - managing different tasks between PM & Quality Assurance manager positions, another important responsibility was to be Master Scheduler using MS Project / MSPS & with my excellent communication skills & ability to interface effectively with both client & resources; I was able to quickly response to all client request.
Drive Time (Contractor)
Drive Time is the nation's largest financial dealership with 88 locations specializing in selling used cars to people with credit problems
Sr. Quality Assurance Software Testing
From December 2007 – 11/2009
Test Director |Black Box | Functional | System regression Integration | UAT | Front-end Backend
Microsoft Word | Microsoft Excel | Microsoft Outlook | Microsoft PowerPoint
Determined testing requirements developed and reviewed scripts for positive and negative test scenarios, conducted baseline testing, and generated reports. Tested server and Web Portal.
Analyzed application, system, and security errors. Escalated issues to developers and verified fixes.
Designed test plans and defined cases for functional, integration system, and user acceptance testing, attended weekly defect report meetings and presented progress updates.
Performed Functional Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance testing, Front/Back End Testing, Black Box testing, Integration testing.; Ensuring that all functional requirements are tested Preparing Bug Reports Attended several walkthrough meetings with project manager, BA, Developer, Analyze software behavior, and software performance, conduct software testing.
Price Realty (Permanent)
Well maintained and professionally landscaped, each Price residential community offers a host of upscale features usually found in expensive homes
Jr. Quality Assurance Software Testing
From 1999 – 12/2007
Bugzilla | Black Box |Functional |UAT | Microsoft Word | Microsoft Excel| Microsoft Outlook| Microsoft PowerPoint
Tested Web-based/ Client server application performing functional, Ad-hoc Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing, User Acceptance testing, Front/Back End Testing, Black Box testing, Integration testing, check that the changes made to any part of software (with intent of fixing any bug or any enhancement of any existing feature or implementing any new feature) do not affect other functionalities, Cosmetic testing, Extensively worked on Manuel testing/ Automation, Functional Testing, Ad-hoc Testing, System Testing, Regression Testing.
IT SKILLS
Test Director
Quality Center
QTP: Quick Test Professional
J-meter
Visual Studio
Problem Tracker
Soap UI
Target process
Unix
Bugzilla
Rally
Toad
SQL
Rally Software Tool
Microsoft Project 2010
Microsoft Project 2007
Microsoft Office project web access
Microsoft Visio
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Outlook
Microsoft PowerPoint
Web based/Client Server
Quality Assurance Methodology Test Plan
Test Cases
Weekly Status
Test Strategy
Test Completion Report
E-Commerce Test Plan
Black Box
Functional
System regression Integration
UAT
Front-end Backend
Security testing ad-hoc, host-Translation Smoke, sanity compatibly browser Positive/negative data
Translation host
E-commerce purchasing
selling, and (such as the Internet) through which transactions or terms of sale are performed electronically, client server internal/external, Presentation Software, Enterprise fax Software, Multimedia Software, online banking, credit card, 3rd party discount & promotion code, load processing, exchanging of any services over computer networks, Financial Banking, Health care, Real Estate, Property Management, Electronic funds transfer, Internet marketing, Inventory Management, Sales Reports, Property Management software, Credit, Catalogs utilizing shopping cart software – well as - all types of web-based/client server and many more…
EDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree Marketing
Graduate School University
Studies focused in business that involves consumer needs and desires for products and services and the consumers’ willingness and ability to pay for these needs/desires & Software Application development, IT project management.
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