KISHORE ABID, Test Manager

KISHORE ABID

Test Manager

Second Step Software Development LLC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
Experience
16 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :16 years, 4 Months

Test Manager at Second Step Software Development LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since June 2018

  Currently developing an entirely new healthcare information systems software project from scratch for Inpatient, outpatient, pharmacy, Laboratory and radiology for Hospitals and clinics in Egypt and UAE
 Plan, organize, prioritize, and manage multiple work efforts across application teams
 Manage and implement projects worth more than 60 Million AED
 Worked in implementing solutions for Healthcare Information system providers like Cerner, DXC Technology and clients like NHS, UK and Blue Cross Blue shield, USA
 Managing team of 25 which includes Business analysts, QA, Developers and Business users.
 Interaction with client on best possible way to design and implement the solutions
 Conduct UAT with business to make sure all scenarios have successfully passed.
 Good Knowledge of Agile methodology and implementation of scrum models.
 Develop and deliver effective presentations to senior management to communicate project updates and support effective decision making

Test Manager at Z Care Technology LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • March 2015 to May 2018

Working as Test manager for a large health care company in Alain, developing and Testing health care software for Hospitals/Clinics in UAE/Egypt


 Manage and track the project progress against the project plan
 Assist the business analyst in tracing requirements throughout the development process and verifying them using the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
 Develop and manage budget for projects and be accountable for delivering against established business goals/objectives
 Analyze, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce program reports for management and stakeholders
 Acted as Scrum Master for Product teams with a focus on guiding the teams towards improving the way they work.
 Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
 Assisted team to remove impediments by having an understanding the control and release processes
 Business strategist; plan and manage multimillion-dollar projects aligning business goals with technology solutions to drive process improvements, competitive advantage and bottom-line gains
 Responsible for the delivery of the project plan and the detailed Statement of Work (SOW)
 Engaged with other Scrum Masters to increase the effectiveness of the application of Scrum in the organization
 Updated Agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs
 Worked with the Scrum Team and the Product Owner to negotiate the minimum viable product for delivery
 Expert in agile and waterfall project management methodologies. Known for ability to produce high-quality deliverables that meet or exceed timeline and budgetary targets.
 Direct and coordinate activities of project personnel to ensure project progresses on schedule and within the budget.

System Analyst- SAP ERP at Emirates Transport
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2014 to December 2014

 SAP ERP project for Materials management application
 Lead the team in all functions of project life cycle including initiation of projects, requirement elicitation, estimation of time & effort, control of execution and final delivery.
 Managing the documentation of the technical requirements, handling of discussions with Business Analysts and creating change requests for new requirements as per user requirements and feedback
 Responsible to track the Change requests to closure, update the same in Quality Center and generate reports from QC regarding the suitability for the track changes.
 Involved in assigning System Test cases to resources, making sure the testing is completed as per schedule and update of Test cases in QC and generate reports for senior management.
 Spearheading in regression testing of functional modules in SAP at the same time support SAP users on enhancements and change requests.
 Provided automation of functional test cases using QTP, peer review of Test cases, updating the same in QC and updating the status reports to all stake holders on a daily basis.
 Performing routine team administration tasks as well as team development and people management initiatives to improve team productivity.
 Preparation of quality manual and quality assurance procedures for ensuring compliances as per ISO Standards
 Conduct Internal Quality Management System Audits as per project requirments

Test consultant at Etisalat
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • March 2013 to December 2013

 Reported to the Sr.Manager UAT and led a team of 5 resources for Requirement Analysis with Projects owners, Business Analysts, Revenue and Finance assurance teams on the feasibility of the Project.
 Accountable for leading the team for project management, test schedule estimation based on project priority, number of resources available and requirement of end to end UAT Testing.
 System Testing on Blackberry EDSP Platforms
 Data Migration of Blackberry from MSDP to ESDP platform
 HP Application Life cycle Management ALM, preparation of UAT sheet with Test Resources, review the same and get approval for the same from Product Development
 Responsible to handle discussion with all project stake holders regarding Progress of UAT and any hindrances to completion of UAT successfully and as per schedule.
 Involved in Audit the UAT to make sure all Tests have been completed as per BRD, UAT Sign Off and make Go-Live decision based on UAT results.
 Spearheaded post go-live all critical scenarios are Tested and working correctly and working as User acceptance Lead for Etisalat Consumer Wireless Division reporting to UAT Manager Product Development.
 Understand the requirements and prepare UAT sheet for critical & Non Critical Test cases and get the same approved by the project manager.
 Performed routine team administration tasks as well as team development and people management initiatives to improve team productivity.

Test Lead at infosys technologies limited, india
  • India
  • June 2012 to March 2013

 Reported to the Senior Project Manager and led a team of 10 resources in projects working as Technology Test Lead, preparation of Test script allocation to team members, high level scenario preparation, making sure all stake holders are up to date about the latest status and sending project reports daily to senior management and identified performance issues related to Ecommerce application.

Senior Software Engineer at UST Global
  • India
  • December 2010 to May 2012

Responsibilities
Focused on Oracle Financials as Consultant, Analyst, Programmer and Developer
Implementation of Oracle Financial modules (AP, GL, FA, Internet Expenses)
Participated on several on-site support projects in US (R12 Implementation, CRP and UAT testing
Organize multiple sessions with stake holders to understand the business Process requirements
Conduct user interviews, brainstorming sessions, and JAD sessions with stake holders to understand business needs and define functional requirements and creating activity and sequence diagrams using MS Visio
Collaboration with team lead and project manager to create Work breakdown structure using MS project
Preparation of requirements list detailing the pre-existing system features, new features and enhancements to existing features and assigned priorities to the features
Creation of use case models to depict the high level requirements of the system and relationships between them using Microsoft visio
Create use case documents using RUP templates and identified preconditions, post conditions, triggers, assumptions and special requirements of each use case
Interaction with compliance department to understand the business rules
Lead Project status meeting to update senior management and other stake holders on progress, issues and deliverables of the project

Software Test Engineer at CSC
  • India - Chennai
  • August 2007 to November 2010

CSC is working in partnership with iSOFT to deliver health Solutions for NHS called the ‘National Program for IT’. The product is called as ’Lorenzo’ .It is an application to manage the health records of all the patients that are registered with the National Health Service. NHS is the primary health care provider for all people in UK. The National Health Service uses the application for monitoring, scheduling and keeping record of all the details that are related to the NHS. Allows for Care providers to login to the server (Spine Network) and see their day to day schedules and appointments, patient booking etc. National program for IT is the largest Civilian software project deployed anywhere in the world.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering
  • at SJM Institute of Technology
  • June 2004

I majored in Computer science and engineering from SJM Institute of Technology, CHitradurga,Karnataka Under VTU Belgaum.

Specialties & Skills

Regression Testing
System Integration Testing
Quality Assurance
Quality Center
Testing
Business Analysis
USE CASE MODELLING
Project Management

Languages

English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Certified Scrum Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2015
Valid Until:
January 9999
Project Management Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2015