Muhammad Faisal, Manager (section head) Software Testing & Implementation

Muhammad Faisal

Manager (section head) Software Testing & Implementation

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Master's degree, Databases
Experience
26 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :26 years, 8 Months

Manager (section head) Software Testing & Implementation at Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2013

www.mofa.gov.sa

Responsibilities
Managing and leading the software testing & implementation department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Saudi Arabia. Actively involved in eVisa, online payment integration with bank, biometric visa applications, diplomatic application, data warehouse along with the other applications like, emergency committee, share point portal, process implementation etc… (contractual level of job)

Sr. Project Manager & Technical Consultant at Seamnia (Pvt.) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • August 2009 to December 2012

Seamnia (Pvt.) Ltd Muscat, Karachi
www.seamnia.net

Responsibilities
Consulting technology services, focusing on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives, In addition to providing advice, IT consultancies often implement, deploy, quality & testing and administrate IT applications on businesses' behalf.

Manager Software Quality Services at Creative Chaos (Pvt.) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • June 2007 to August 2009

Creative Chaos (Pvt.) Ltd Karachi, Islamabad
www.csquareonline.com

Responsibilities
Manage software and integration projects through all phases of project life cycle - analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-production support. Developed testing plans and procedures for unit test, system test, and acceptance test, create scripts to automatic application interface testing. Successfully upgrade ISO 9001:2000 to ISO 9001:2008.

Software QA and Support Lead at AVANZA Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • August 2002 to May 2007

AVANZA Solutions (Pvt.) Ltd Karachi, UAE, Africa
www.avanzasolutions.com

Responsibilities
My responsibilities were to identify the new requirement, analysis, design, release planning, application & their components configuration issues, implementation and support. Furnished QA / test and supporting IS skills to functionality, compatibility, reliability, security and related testing of a wide variety of web-based (e-banking, ATM monitoring applications, web portals, web applications, etc ), production, network and related software products on Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Creation and execution of test plans and test suites, exploratory and ad hoc testing, bug documentation and regression, team and individual work.

Software Engineer at NeoVision (Pvt.) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • October 2001 to August 2002

NeoVision (Pvt.) Ltd Karachi
www.neovision.com

Responsibilities
Provide design and implementation of formal software quality assurance processes and methodologies, including integration with overall development processes. Functionality, compatibility, reliability, performance, security and related testing of a variety of web-based applications, from static web sites to complex interactive web applications incorporating multiple front and back end database/web/internet technologies and application design and testing for web-based bug tracking system

Software Engineer at CresSoft (Pvt.) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • August 2000 to September 2001

CresSoft (Pvt.) Ltd Karachi
www.cressoft.com.pk

Responsibilities
Contributed diverse activities of entire software development life cycle, including functionality, compatibility, reliability, load/stress, security and related testing of a wide variety of web-based, production, printer, network and related software products on Windows, Macintosh and Unix operating systems. Creation and execution of test plans and test suites; exploratory/ad hoc testing; bug documentation and regression and summary writing.

Software Engineer at Goldsoft (Pvt.) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • March 2000 to July 2000

Goldsoft (Pvt.) Ltd Karachi
www.thegoldsoft.com

Responsibilities
Design, development and support of software for textile and accounts related system functions. Developed database scripts, configured testing environment for software, performed functionality and reliability tests before it release to QA, prepared beta test summaries and reports.

Software QA Engineer at ITIM Systems (Pvt.) Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • September 1997 to February 2000

ITIM Systems (Pvt.) Ltd Karachi
www.itimsystems.com

Responsibilities
Corporate management applications testing, developed specific test strategies; configured test network hardware and software; performed functionality and reliability tests; reviewed QA and software documentation; prepared test summaries and reports and used LAN-based anomaly tracking and reporting software. Live database recovery testing (when local database connects to the server, all the data from the local database will be uploaded on the main database)

Education

Master's degree, Databases
  • at IQRA UNIVERSITY
  • December 2004

Master of Computer Science (M.C.S) Majors in Databases from IQRA UNIVERSITY, Karachi

Specialties & Skills

Project Execution
Test Management
Performance Testing
Software Project Management
Business Analysis
Project Management
eBANKING
Project Implementation
SQA, software quality assurance
Databases, SQL Server
SOFTWARE QA Tools
TEST PLANS
TESTING
Web Applications
PHP, word press, joomla, mysql
.Net applications
Application Servers

Languages

Arabic
Beginner
English
Expert
Urdu
Expert

Training and Certifications

PMP PDUs (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2011
Valid Until:
March 2011
Share point Implementation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2011
Valid Until:
October 2011