Ramy Mekky, Project Manager

Ramy Mekky

Project Manager

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Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering
Experience
18 years, 6 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 6 Months

Project Manager at Brimit
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since November 2019

Agile project manager / Scum Master for a governmental project in Dubai.

Project Manager/Quality Manager at Freelancer
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2018

Working as frrelance project manager and quality manager

Engineering Director at Futures Business Development
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2014 to September 2018

• Manage the Development, Quality and IT departments for the company
• Hire and manage remote technical resources through different platforms/channels.
• Communicate with business department and assure a seamless integration with the technical team
• Work as project manager, lead scrum meetings and manage company projects/products in financial, ecommerce, social networking and mobile applications domains
• Create development project plans, create and manage project schedules and lead development iterations till closure
• Attend project design meetings and participate in creating acceptance test cases
• Create and manage the software (functional, performance and security) testing plans for the running projects/products
• Create and manage testing estimates and schedules for running projects
• Hire development, quality and networking team members
• Train and support team members in technical issues, challenges and problems
• Manage internal project to create the company organizational structure, roles and responsibilities for each department, salary structure and career development path for company employees.
• Participate in technical and business conferences to present and promote the company's products

Added skills:
• Business acumen, risk analysis and decision-making.
• Software quality management, Project management, Agile planning on TFS
• Mobile applications development
• Stock markets and financial knowledge

Software Quality Assurance Manager at Futures Business Development
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • September 2012 to September 2014

• Establish the quality department for the company and define all the required processes
• Research, install and configure the new tools for the quality department
• Screen, interview and hire quality team members
• Conduct training sessions for Quality Engineers on different testing topics
• Create and manage the software (functional, performance and security) testing plans for the running projects/products
• Create and manage testing estimates and schedules for running projects
• Monitor bug-tracking system for defects posted by quality team and track their resolution and closure
• Develop and maintain software quality guidelines, procedures, metrics and reports
• Develop and maintain software engineering process guidelines and procedures under the Agile methodology
• Work as project manager, lead scrum meetings and manage company projects/products in financial, ecommerce, social networking and mobile applications domains
• Create development project plans, create and manage project schedules and lead development iterations till closure
• Attend project design meetings and participate in creating acceptance test cases
• Manage internal project for updating all policies and processes for our company
• Manage internal project for launching the company’s first commercial product at the Euromoney conference 2013 in Riyadh.
• Participate in technical and business conferences to present and promote the company's products

Added skills:
• Software quality management, Project management.
• Stock markets and financial knowledge.

Software Quality Team Leader at ITWorx
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2011 to September 2012

• Coach and support quality team members in technical issues, challenges, and problems
• Conduct training sessions for Quality Engineers on different testing topics
• Prepare and Manage testing estimates for running projects
• Participate in leading and facilitating the work of quality team in ITWorx education products department
• Initiate, execute and mentor the automation for ITWorx education products
• Develop, execute, and maintain test plan and test cases to ensure best achievable project quality
• Follow up and test new builds for any defects
• Report bugs back to development team to resolve
• Prepare smoke test cases document
• Perform functional/security/performance and automation testing.

Added skills:
• Automation testing (mentored and executed a new automation initiative starting from selection of a new tool, development of automation plan, plan execution and maintenance).
• Database testing.
• Technologies: Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory.
• Tools: Telerik Test Studio Automation Testing Tool, Web Performance Load Tester.

Senior Software Quality Engineer at ITWorx
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2008 to November 2011

• Develop, execute, and maintain test plan and test cases to ensure best achievable project quality
• Prepare traceability matrix for the requirements document versus test cases
• Follow up and test new builds for any defects
• Report bugs back to development team to resolve
• Prepare smoke test cases document
• Review requirements documents
• Perform functional/performance/security testing.

Added skills:
• Performance testing (Planning - Execution - Reporting).
• Education Business Knowledge: SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK), School Management Systems.
• Database testing.
• Technologies: Microsoft SharePoint 2007, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory.
• Tools: Web Performance Load Tester, IBM AppScan security, ApTest Manager (tool for writing and maintaining test cases), BugBase (tool for writing and tracking issues)

Java Software Developer at Thebe Technology
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • March 2007 to June 2008

• Developing a testing framework for the Q-Layer product; a product that deals with virtualization (storage - server - network).
• Testing the developed scripts on windows and Linux, and adjusting the environment for both operating systems when needed.

Added skills:
• Virtualization concepts (servers, storage, networks)
• Developing under Linux and Linux administration.
• Eclipse, PHP, python, JIRA (Bug Tracking system), Xplanner.

Java Software Developer at Raya Software
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2006 to March 2007

• Developing web applications using java technologies

Added skills:
• Struts Framework, JSP, Servlet.
• JDeveloper, visual Source Safe, Toplink, Jasper reports, I-Reports, HTML-DB "Oracle express”.

Software Quality Engineer at Raya Software
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • October 2005 to October 2006

• Testing Application developed in Java or .Net technologies, reporting discovered bugs, tracking bugs, reviewing analysis document.

Added skills:
• Software life cycle, Quality standards, automation testing tools, CSQE knowledge.
Issue Track (bug tracking system), Win Runner (functional testing tool), and Load Runner

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer and Systems Engineering
  • at Ain Shams University
  • June 2005

Faculty of Engineering - Ain Shams University

Specialties & Skills

Manual Testing
Project Management
Test Automation
Quality Management
Performance Testing
Software Automation Testing
Software Performance Testing
DATABASE TESTING
Software ENGINEER
MICROSOFT OFFICE
Software SECURITY Testing
SHAREPOINT
TESTING
TESTING TOOLS
Software Quality Management
Project Management
Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Data scientist
NLP (Natural Language Processing)
Machine Learning
Scrum Master

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Memberships

Egyptian Engineering Syndicate
  • Computer Engineer
  • August 2005
Saudi Engineering Syndicate
  • Computer Engineer
  • September 2012

Training and Certifications

ITIL 4 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2020
Project Management Professional (PMP) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2014
Valid Until:
April 2019
Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2019
Data Scientist with Python (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2019