Amel Alagraa, Software Development and QA Lead

Amel Alagraa

Software Development and QA Lead

Export Development Bank (Sudan)

Location
Sudan - Khartoum
Education
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering of Electronics Systems
Experience
13 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 5 Months

Software Development and QA Lead at Export Development Bank (Sudan)
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • My current job since December 2020

• Providing Support for the Bank core-banking system (T24) and its APIs
• Working on the launching of the bank’s Online Platform (Mobile App, Agent App, Internet Banking)
• Gathering and analyzing new requirements, and design suitable new solution.
• Develop solutions either internally or via outsourcing.
• Ensure that new solutions meet functional and non-Functional requirements by leading a QA process.
• Prepare test cases and document test results for UATs for vendors’ software products.
• Help maintain the bank’s systems, troubleshoot, fix bugs and reported software issues.
• Follow up with systems vendors on new requirements and reported software issues.
• Participate in defining and enhancing the section’s processes and methodologies.
• Setup projects plans, assign tasks to teams and motivate the team to ensure optimal outcome from human resources.
• Provide Technical guidance for software developers.

Development Lead at Kagatti Co.
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • September 2019 to December 2019

• Leading the team in the development of a specialized ERP system for this startup, along with other small web development projects
• Evaluating and enhancing the development process.
• Implementing a combination of development life cycle and agile methodology.
• Changed and unified the environment settings for the team.
• Created templates for Requirements, QA test cases.
• Trained team in performing unit and integration testing.
• Performed UAT-like testing before delivering to customers.

Senior Software Development Engineer at Electronic Banking Services (EBS)
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • December 2014 to May 2019

Leading a team of engineers in development and support tasks, assigned systems includes ISO messaging standards 8583 based protocols, National Electronic Cheques Clearing system, SWIFT solutions, EBS online payments applications. Back-end integration with SOAP and REST web services APIs. Coordination with customers and vendors. Also, lead a team in the development of an Internal Monitoring system.

Software Developer at Financial and Banking Systems
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • October 2009 to December 2014

Role includes performing software engineering life cycle tasks (requirements elicitation, analyze, design, develop, test and maintain software), product documentation, client presentations, user training, technical support, working with a team (brainstorming, presentation, collaboration in coding and code revision), working with quality assurance team
Worked on developing an ERP system using JSF technology, also worked in supporting a core banking system that serves a big share of the banking sector in Sudan

Lecturer at University of Khartoum
  • Sudan - Khartoum
  • February 2010 to February 2011

Preparing and teaching lectures for "Introduction to Database Systems" for 2nd year's students of the Networks & Maintainance Diploma programs. Role also included preparing lab materials, lab supervision, preparing And correcting course work, tests and final year exams.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering of Electronics Systems
  • at University of Khartoum
  • July 2009

University of Khartoum, Faculty of Engineering B.Sc of Electrical And Electronics Engineering Software Engineering of Electronics Systems

High school or equivalent, Comboni schools diploma, Sudan school certificate
  • at Catholic Sisters' School
  • April 2004

- Catholic Sisters' School, Khartoum Comboni schools diploma, Sudan school certificate

Specialties & Skills

Databases
Software Development
Software Engineering
Teaching
Requirements Analysis
Hibernate
Technical Documentation
Adobe Photoshop
SQLServer
Microsoft Office Excel
PowerBuilder
Presentation
Microsoft Office Power Point
Microsoft Office Project
Linux (RHEL 6)
Subversion Source Control System
Windows 7
PhpMyAdmin
Microsoft Office Word
Netbeans IDE
Microsoft Office Visio
Myeclipse

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

PRINCE 2 Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2016
ITIL Service Transition (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2018
ITIL Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2018
Software Development Lifecycle (Training)
Training Institute:
LKS Training Company
Date Attended:
October 2013
Duration:
20 hours
Conducted by employer (FBS) to strengthen the banking operations background (Training)
Training Institute:
Faisal Islamic Bank - Sudan
Date Attended:
February 2012
Red Hat Linux System Essentials & Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
LKS Training Company
Date Attended:
February 2013
Oracle 11g Database Administration (Training)
Training Institute:
LKS Training Company
Date Attended:
May 2013
Micro controller architecture programming and interface using Atmel micro controller (Training)
Training Institute:
High Technical Center, Faculty of Engineering Cairo University, Egypt
Date Attended:
September 2008

Hobbies

  • Writing
    Wrote several articles and short stories for university newspapers
  • Filmmaking
    wrote and directed my first narrative short film in 2012 in collaboration with Sudan Film Factory SFF (Part of Goethe Institute - Sudan). Participated in a workshop for filmmaking by British council and SFF with British director Tina Gharavi. Participated in a workshop for filmmaking in Luxor African Film Festival (Egypt) with International Director Haile Grima in 2013.
  • Sketching and Drawing