Jaffar Lone, Senior SQA Engineer

Jaffar Lone

Senior SQA Engineer

Blue technologies

Location
Pakistan - Lahore
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
20 years, 0 months

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Total years of experience :20 years, 0 months

Senior SQA Engineer at Blue technologies
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • My current job since September 2012

• Participating in the test documentation process.
• Performed the routine testing activities with respect to the updates on local server and live deployments.
• Performance Testing.

Senior SQA Engineer at putitout
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • January 2012 to August 2012

• Supervising the testing activities for mobile and web-based projects.
• Doing research and development for Selenium usage on current projects.
• Giving presentations to both team and the management regarding the use of selenium and advantages.

• Applying best QA practices to existing projects.
• Short-listing and interviewing people for QA related posts in the company.
• Participating in the weekly project meetings, coordinating with the UK office for establishment of requirements and changes.

Senior SQA Engineer at i2cinc
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • May 2011 to November 2011

• Responsible for running the existing test cases for the my card place (MCP) module and updating the existing Functional Specifications (FS)
• Recording the test case results in Mercury’s Test Director.
• Working with the business analyst and development lead to make sure the business scenarios are covered in the test cases and also to update the business analyst of suggestions and improvements in the current reports working.
• Running daily test cases on cardholder website as well as cardAdmin website of MCP.
• Updating the team lead and project manager of the latest changes in the test case documentation.
• Testing of Report Module, including the existing reports, java based ETLs.
• Coordinating the effort between developers and QA for analysis of reports and making them more effective.
• Conducting interviews of candidates as selected by Human Resource department.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer at i2cinc
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • August 2007 to February 2010

• Responsible for running the existing test cases for the my card place (MCP) module and updating the existing Functional Specifications (FS)
• Recording the test case results in Mercury’s Test Director.
• Working with the business analyst and development lead to make sure the business scenarios are covered in the test cases and also to update the business analyst of suggestions and improvements in the current reports working.
• Running daily test cases on cardholder website as well as cardAdmin website of MCP.
• Updating the team lead and project manager of the latest changes in the test case documentation.
• Testing of Report Module, including the existing reports, java based ETLs.
• Coordinating the effort between developers and QA for analysis of reports and making them more effective.
• Conducting interviews of candidates as selected by Human Resource department.

Assistant Project Manager/project coordinator at Simply Wireless
  • Other
  • November 2005 to January 2006

• Responsible for co-ordination between the team members, the project manager regarding the overall documentation control and change management of the website www.simplywireless.com .
• Responsible for assisting the project manager in maintaining a track of the list of sub projects as assigned by the client and also to keep track of the changes required in the implementation of each of those sub projects.
• To assist the Project manager in ensuring that the project deliverables are fulfilled in accordance with the assignment specification and customer project contract.
• Working with the business analyst to come up with new ideas for plans and packages to be offered to the people, also helping with the User interface design and suggest improvements in the system.
• Verifying the billing reports with the help of the database team.

Quality Assurance Incharge at Abacus Consulting
  • Other
  • July 2004 to March 2005

• Responsible for the data analysis/report generation regarding the project of motor insurance. This project was given to Abacus Consulting by Consumer Intel (www.consumerintel.com) a British company, which specializes in consumer-based data analysis.
• Responsible for report generation and statistical analysis for the project using MS Excel. MS SQL Server was used as backend database. My duties also included report generation using Crystal reports with MS SQL Server.
• Responsible for conducting interviews and also to give an active opinion in the management decisions.
• Responsible for everyday management decisions regarding change in requirements from the client and/or expansion in the team as per the project needs.
• Responsible for carrying out meetings/presentations between the project manager and the other designations of the IT department regarding the project status, the tasks still under progress and the achievements as per statistics.
• Holding regular meetings with the project manager and the technical analyst to analyse and develop the system for efficient reporting.

Programmer at Nishat Textile Mills
  • Other
  • June 2002 to January 2003

• Responsible for working on the Oracle system developed for supporting the yarn, cotton and inventory system of Nishat Mills Limited (NML).
• Worked in depth with the stakeholders in order to customize the existing systems as per their needs, also adding new reports to the system.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer at CureMD
  • Other
  • November 2001 to June 2002

• Responsible for developing test cases, also to maintain track of the test cases with respect to the changes as requested for each sub-module of the project (www.curemd.com).
• Responsible for stress test and to maintain the track of the results/statistics as deduced from the reports
• Managed other testers, and the tasks they performed on a daily basis. Also to make sure of the effective management I devised reports so that the test engineers were able to co-ordinate their routine tasks.
• Used MS Project for tracking of tasks and viewing daily work status.
• Used buggit to tracking software defects for the website (www.curemd.com).

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at FAST-NUCES
  • December 2001

2.45 CGPA, majored in computer science.

Specialties & Skills

Software Testing
Software Quality Assurance
Project Management
Test Management
Project Coordination
software project management
software quality assurance
Automation Testing
Performance Testing
Regression Testing

Languages

English
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