Kareem Mohamad Abd El-Hakim Sherif, Service Delivery Supervisor

Kareem Mohamad Abd El-Hakim Sherif

Service Delivery Supervisor

We - Telecom Egypt

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science; Computer Science & Information Systems
Experience
16 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 3 Months

Service Delivery Supervisor at We - Telecom Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since February 2021

• Maintain high performing service support functions including all IT Applications Support.
• Owner of the Incident, Request, Change and Escalation processes, ensuring high levels of performance in these processes, accurate reporting and establishing service improvement activities when required.
• Ensuring coordination of resolving parties for major incidents, effective communication to stakeholders and post incident review.
• Monitor, control and support service delivery; ensuring systems, methodologies and procedures are in place and followed.
• Accountable for the quality of Service and performance; ensuring future demand from growth and projects is understood and factored into capacity plans for all associated systems.
• Make recommendations for Service Improvement Plans and ensure actions are followed through to completion in a timely manner.
• Work with internal and third party teams to ensure actions are taken and completed to protect and improve services.
• Provide regular and accurate management reporting on IT Service performance.
• Working across the business to provide effective communication on IT matters and build relationships with other teams to ensure effective dialogue between departments.

Software QA & Testing Lead at SEGMATEK Technologies
  • Egypt
  • March 2020 to December 2020

• Coordinate with developers and product managers to identify system requirements.
• Review the functional specifications/requirements created, collaborating with the SA team for visibility and possible updates.
• Define test metrics, prepare test results dashboards and track/report on solution quality.
• Plan for functional and non-functional (performance, endurance, security) testing cycles and manage the execution.
• Working closely with the software development team to reproduce and debug issues, diagnose defects and track them from discovery to resolution.
• Lead and mentor QA team members, as well as manage outside contract testers both onshore and offshore to develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures.
• Daily stand-up meetings, and weekly status meetings to review finished sprints and discuss upcoming sprints/deadlines.
• Ensure quality in all the deliverables by following QA standards, best practices and guidelines.
• Acted as a key point of contact for apps teams and project teams for all QA aspects of releases, providing QA services and coordinating QA resources for in-progress projects.
• Participated in sales and customer calls and meetings as requested.
• Developed the strategy testing plans and enablement of User Acceptance Testing for Self-care projects for 3 Telecom operators in Africa (Malitel, Ethiotel & WE), partnering effectively with the business to ensure goals achievement.
• Assisted the business with user acceptance testing (UAT).

Senior BSS Consultant at SEGMA Technology​
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2017 to March 2020

• Huawei NGBSS Testing and operation for ZAIN IRAQ Managed Services.
• Huawei BES Consultant for WE Telecom Egypt.
• Manage the delivery of Huawei BES RM domain and guarantee delivery quality and progress.
• Held accountable for expertise in RM domain and its relevant modules.
• Investigate technical problems on the system or product configuration (live & test environment).
• Create (workaround/ permanent) solutions/tweaks for the systems in case of critical situations.
• Collaborating with other domains’ teams to guarantee the solution quality and delivery integrity.
• Performed regular reporting for the project status and system KPIs.
• Contributed to the development of Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) documents for all RM modules.
• Delivered training to end-users of the application’s basic operations, upgrades, and enhancements.

CBS Consultant, testing lead at Ericsson RMEA
  • Iraq - Baghdad
  • January 2016 to October 2016

• Managed the testing team for the CRM migration project to HUAWEI CRM, including preparing to manage the testing timeline, scope, risk management & customer acceptance of the delivered solution, based on the successful execution of the strategy & test plan.
• Define test strategy, prepare test plans, test object list, and track/report on solution quality.
• Led project testing execution: tracking project activities, monitor & handle changes, conflicts & escalations.
• Managed end-to-end complex test work streams, providing direction and guidance for test process improvements and establishing policies, maintaining test environment and test database integrity.
• Track requirements and functional analysis, application development, integration with legacy systems, IT security, and environments.
• Ensured the quality of applied test processes, providing visibility to decision-makers, identifying risks, analyzing, and managing conflict resolution.
• Developing periodically tracking and status reports for executive stakeholders, reflecting the project progress promptly.
• Assisting the business with user acceptance testing (UAT).
• Managed assigned customer projects to ensure that project goals are met; customer’s expectations are fulfilled & that the customer relation is handled in the best possible way within the scope of the contract.

Senior Solution Test Engineer at HUAWEI Telecom
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2014 to December 2015

● Manage the delivery of a single product for a regional-level project.
● Conduct cross-domain solution acceptance tests on behalf of customers and performance, quality, reliability, and
security (PQRS) test activities, including test case baseline setting, performance tool development and application,
environment design, PQRS verification, and solution evaluation. The solution test design covers main application
scenarios for customers.
● Undertake test execution of external projects or provide technical support for market projects.
● Carry out iteration tests and integration verification for features, stories, and documentation, throughout the entire
process.
● Main tasks include use case design, user scenario test design, automation design and implementation quality
evaluation for commercial use, and closed-loop improvement. Take part in making a key quality breakthrough for a
product as a major member.

CBS Support Engineer at HUAWEI
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • May 2013 to November 2014

• Preside over administration of OCS/CBS modules in day-to-day SOP operations, managing servers, solving incidents, and fulfilling requests.
• Implement the serviceability improvement measures in a product domain, optimize the delivery model, and develop service, product deliverables for a product domain or solution.
• Manage the delivery of a certain product domain of company-level projects and guarantee delivery quality and progress. Be accountable for the expertise of multi-product or multi-module in one operation technology area.
• Monitor running processes related to the assigned module, and document all abnormal / Critical issues with RC analysis.
• Building a case library for product serviceability, maintaining its improvement, and steering low-level employees to improve their capabilities.
• Study FRSs and the AS Hardware & Software Information.
• Responsible for typical CBS services (Charging processes, Subscriber management processes).
• Preside over the UVC platform (Recharging Platform) and manage the Vouchers’ life-cycle.

TABS Support Engineer at Huawei
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • December 2011 to May 2013

• Working as first-line support (Service Desk); Create, research, and update service requests, and route service requests to appropriate product support teams.
• Interface with Global support teams and Field personnel and Implement escalation procedures as required. Execute Business Continuity procedures if needed, according to established protocols.
• Business Continuity to be defined as Disaster Recovery operations due to a variety of reasons, i.e. problems with the network, admin system, DB, etc.
• Accountable for the expertise of multi-product or multi-module in one operation technology area.
• Solving issues related to TABS application, VAS applications, A.D, BI reports.
• Independently take on service network monitoring and management.

BSS Assistant Customer Service Engineer at International Turnkey Systems (ITS)
  • Egypt
  • January 2011 to December 2011

• Working as first line support (Service Desk); Create, research and update service requests.
• Route service requests to appropriate product support teams.
• Interface with Global support teams and Field personnel.
• Implement escalation procedures as required.
• Execute Business Continuity procedures if needed, according to established protocols. Business Continuity to be defined as Disaster Recovery operations due to a variety of reasons, i.e. problems with the network, admin system, DB, etc.
• Solving issues related to TABS application, VAS applications, A.D, BI reports.

Technical Support Engineer (Training) at YAT Software House & Advertising
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • June 2010 to October 2010

• Provide troubleshooting and analysis assistance for software installation (or reinstallation), usage and configuration questions.
• Provide answers for general usage and operation questions. Provide problem determination / problem source Identification. Review diagnostic information to assist in isolation of a problem cause.
• Identify known defects and fixes to resolve problems. Provide assistance on supported product known defects for which available corrective service information and program fixes are available.
• Provide technical support service delivery within established guidelines; demonstrating soft skills and technical skills that contribute to maintain service continuity.

Technical Support Engineer at Petrotrade
  • Egypt
  • April 2007 to March 2010

Technical support for the network hardware and software applications.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science; Computer Science & Information Systems
  • at Mansoura University
  • July 2006

Project Biometric Identification: An AI project that works as an authentication tool and includes (Signature recognition, signature authentication and Graphical Password) - Grade: Excellent

Specialties & Skills

Charging
Unix Administration
Telecommunications
Service Management
Provisioning
Application Support
Middle-Ware
Shell Scripting
Technical Problem Troubleshooting
Charging
Oracle SQL
Billing Mediation
Billing Systems
Roaming
Customer Service

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Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

(Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Valid Until:
October 2013
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Valid Until:
October 2013
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2013
Valid Until:
October 2013
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Valid Until:
November 2013
(Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2013
Valid Until:
December 2013
HP Network Node Manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Valid Until:
June 2011
ITIL V3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2011
Valid Until:
September 2011
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2005
Valid Until:
October 2005
HP Service Manager (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2011
Valid Until:
July 2011

Hobbies

  • Running
  • Tennis
    amateur
  • Reading