Qa Team Leader
Nafith
Total years of experience :17 years, 10 Months
● Improved software quality and reduced defects via introducing of defect and requirements management tools, requirements gathering and testing best practices, root cause analysis, UML diagrams and via creation of standardized tools, processes and methodologies.
● Introduced Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related to quality in employee performance plans.
● Lead process improvement projects to reduce test times, integrate new tools and manage key tasks.
● Develop and lead the software system testing process, resources, projects and documentation.
● Responsible for the selection and development of people, resources, and budgets necessary to perform the functions of software quality assurance.
● Prepare release notes.
● Recommend design improvements or corrections to engineers throughout the development process.
● Lead multiple work streams of quality assurance originating from development, business requirements, and strategy.
● Create test reports to describe program evaluation, testing, and correction.
● Develop a QA program strategy, which includes planning, evaluating, designing, implementing and maintaining test frameworks, as well as, being responsible for quality assurance initiatives and
● Creates comprehensive test plans with well defined, reusable test cases from business requirements and functional specifications documents.
● Responsible for the design, set up, and execution of (Manual and Automated) test cases/procedures within a broad scope of technology/product areas.
● Provide LOE estimates for various automation projects
● Participate in business requirements and functional specifications reviews early in the software development lifecycle process
● Developing and executing automated test to verify application GUI and backend data using different tools and technologies
● Manages scheduling to ensure efficient and effective product testing; identifies and reports risks to project schedule and product quality and proposes new methods to control and/or mitigate software quality-related risks.
● Coordinates the activities of QA Teams in the development of test plans, and test cases to meet individual project objectives while providing leadership to one or more outsourced software quality teams
● Conducting all the scrum meetings such as the grooming and daily standup meetings with the team
● Performs quality-engineering reviews of design documentation for compliance with stated requirements
● Applies test methodology, engineering and product knowledge in the design of tests and testing strategies for the analysis and qualification of products
● Plans and conducts analysis, inspection, design, test, and/or integration to assure the quality for large and complex multi-tier applications
● Create performance test scripts using Selenium and JMeter
● Using jira and Confluence as part of the daily work activities
• Developing and executing automated test to verify application GUI and backend data using UFT, Protractor with Selenium, jasmine reports and TFS.
• Developing automation test scenarios for full regression testing.
• Maintained Test Cases, Defect Tracking and Reporting for both Manual and Automated Test environment.
• Conducting a daily standup meeting with the team; explaining what I did, what I will do and raise any impediment that will cause any delivery delay or other issues.
• Using JIRA and eclipse for TFS.
• Successfully redesigned the website subscription module and introduced new one that has increased the total number of paid subscribers by 100, 000
• Developed, built and maintained different tiers for multiple releases of the enterprise, content-managed and multilingual WeightWatchers.com website
• Participated in constructing the software engineering department by:
- Prepared needed documentations; like installing instructions for various applications, TAD, TSD and testing plans documentations
- Work closely with QA team to finalize testing plans and test cases
- Conducted several on-board presentations and technical sessions for new comers
• During the project I have recently worked on, we and our client have started to adopt the Scrum methodology. This gave me the chance to apply the Scrum concept which i have received training on.
• Working on multiple areas of the sites and projects; which affects many site areas main site and community site.
• Leading project of four engineers on main site project; this project requires implementing new business requirements that aims to update the user weight and re-calculate his goals and give him the ability to update the weight loss plan.
Required changes affect multiple areas such Front-end, middle tier and Back-end.
• Conducting code review; to ensure quality of deliverable, and compliance of the code with the internal coding standards
• Leading, designing and implementing multilingual versions, and counting, of the enterprise large-scale WeightWatchers.com including English and non-English versions such as German, French, Dutch, Spanish, Swedish and Chinese.
• I am comfortable with multitasking. I had lead two different projects at the same time of twelve developers
• Managed web projects from requirement gathering to final delivery
• Communicated team status, open issues, resources requirements and applied
Resource allocations based on the weekly forecast meetings with the client’s PMO
• Responsible for a part of the HR cycle: Created job descriptions, interviewed candidates,
Managed the training process, mentored and appraised team members and proposed team building activities to senior management
• Measured the performance of the groups and team members by developing and updating
key performance indicators (KPI) for each group
• Tracked project defects and bugs via the use of Mercury Quality Center
http://www.mercury.com/us/products/quality-center/
• Provided level of efforts (LOE) estimates of project activities to the client
• Set risk management plans for deliverables
• Set expectations for deliverables and schedules and motivated resources to meet deadlines
• Coordinated the handover documentation of new components between the Engineering Team
And the Web Content Management Team
• Created test scenarios and proposed new functionalities for the content management systems
• Trained and support team members.
• Work with .Net CMS Tools, Visual Source Safe (Local/Remote), Adobe DreamWeaver, Altova XML Editors, Adobe Homesite+, Visual Studio, and several other tools according to the assigned projects.