Mohamed Gouda, IT Project Manager and Scrum Master

Mohamed Gouda

IT Project Manager and Scrum Master

STC

Location
Egypt
Education
Bachelor's degree, information system
Experience
22 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 2 Months

IT Project Manager and Scrum Master at STC
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since October 2020

 Managing product backlogs
 Prioritize backlog items.
 Communicating and review with stakeholders.
 Managing the customer's vision and needs.
: leading the project team to deliver the services.
: Build the project plan and maintain the aligned timeline
: Communicate with the stakeholders and manage the project milestones.
: Follow up with the Vendor side to deliver the required activities and tasks.
: Follow up with the project resources for assigned tasks and monitor the project progress.
: Report project risks and prepare the mitigation plans.
: Estimating the overall work activities and workload.

Solution Architect & Business Analyst at Giza Systems
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2019 to October 2020

: Preparing technical proposals.
: Define and design solution for end-to-end solutions
: Collect and prepare requirements specifications.
: Define the solution and business roadmap for delivery assignments when required.
: Assess, prioritize and manage customer expectations and needs in regards to functional and business requirements.
: Understand the function strategy for the customer to aid better functional recommendations.
: Support customers in identifying the functional requirements to arrive at the scope of the assignment.
: Provide recommendations to the customer on the business processes and functionalities in line with strategy
: Business Analysis for enterprise applications "STC administrative projects"
: Preparing user stories and review the designed test cases.
: Preparing the required workflows and enhance the existing business process.
: Estimating the overall work activities and workload.
: Communicate the needed plan to project PM and lead the entire project team when needed.
Working Projects: Enterprise applications for STC Saudi Arabia.

BSS Section Head at WE - Telecom Egypt
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2018 to March 2019

: Leading BSS operation team.
: Support daily and monthly BSS operations.
: Report operation issues to support and maintenance team
: Validate deliverables with vendors and across other functional units.
: Conduct UAT and Testing prior to any go life activity

Solution Architecture at Huawei
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • April 2014 to August 2018

: Functional Requirements verification, Customer orientation, Building Functional Req. Specs.
: Define the project Scope and risks.
: Define and design solution for end-to-end solutions
: Analyze customer existing solution and network,
: To work and communicate with R&D team, On site PM and onsite service team
: Develop technical presentations & proposals, & perform customer presentations
: Participate in knowledge transfer, documentation & information sharing

Project Experiences:
Hatif - Libya; Broadband (CDMA EVDO) project
MTN - South Sudan; OCS project
Tunisie Telecom - Tunisia OCS project
Vodafone - Ghana; Billing project
Airtel - Sierra Leona; OCS project ( Replacing E// IN)

Test Manager (UAT On Site Test Manager) at HUAWEI
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • November 2012 to April 2014

1.To lead, Follow up and supervise a team of staff, working within constraints of scope, quality, time and cost and within established project policies and guidelines.
2.To coordinate work with other departments or teams, as applicable, including product assurance activities.
3.To report progress of work and forecast completion & To ensure product issues are reported and resolved and to participate in risk assessments to periodically re-evaluate sensitivity of the system and report technological risks and mitigation strategies.
5.To gather information and interpret requirements for testing process.
6.To look after established standards and procedures during different testing phases.
7.To modify / review Testing documents
8.To define and communicate criteria for user acceptance of the delivered system.
9.To provide testing & validation across the complete Software Development Life Cycle, to be involved in reviewing & validating business requirements
10.To work with project team leads and solution designers to review the testing requirements
11.To be involved in reviewing & validating business requirements, designing specifications, test cases, test plans and analyzing testing results and business requirements.
12.To prepare checklists and other test documents based on the project need.
13.To estimate the time needed for the quality tasks in the projects
14.To write comprehensive test plan describing the test approach, defining tasks and test schedule, and making sure it is compliant with the overall project plan
15.To report project and product risks and issues along with the mitigation plans to management before they happen.
16.To analyze test results and write detailed test reports that accurately describes the project status.
17.To participate in reviewing, improving and recommend the company processes

Testing Team Leader at ITS
  • Egypt
  • January 2008 to October 2012

Lead, Follow up and supervise a team of staff, working within constraints of scope, quality, time and cost and within established project policies and guidelines.Coordinate work with other departments or teams, as applicable, including product assurance activities.Ensure product issues are reported and resolved and to participate in risk assessments to periodically re-evaluate sensitivity of the system and report technological risks and mitigation strategies.Complete activities as and when specified by respective managers. Gather information and interpret requirements for testing process.Look after established standards and procedures during different testing phases.Modify / review Testing documents (Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Design, Test Plans, etc.).Define and communicate criteria for user acceptance of the delivered system.Provide testing & validation across the complete Software Development Life Cycle, to be involved in reviewing & validating business requirements.Work with project team leads and solution designers to review the testing requirements for each software release iteration and determine testing responsibilities and options and also to escalate to the manager in proper time and context Be involved in reviewing & validating business requirements and designing specifications and test cases and test plans and analyzing testing results and business requirements, functional specifications documents.Estimate the time needed for the quality tasks in the projects. Write comprehensive test plan describing the test approach, defining tasks and test schedule, and making sure it is compliant with the overall project plan .Report project and product risks and issues along with the mitigation plans to management before they happen.Analyze test results and write detailed test reports that accurately describes the project status.Participate in reviewing, improving and recommend the company processes.

Senior Software Quality Control at ITSOFT
  • Egypt
  • April 2005 to December 2007

: To test and ensure the quality of S/W of Telecom Applications for CANARTEL- in Sudan.

: To test and ensure the quality of S/W of Telecom Applications for MTC - VodaFone in Kuwait.

: To test and ensure the quality of S/W for Banking Applications.

Oracle DBA &programmer at BANK FOR DEVELOPMENT & AGRICULTAURE CREDITS
  • Egypt
  • January 2002 to March 2005

Oracle DBA &programming
Oracle DBA
devloping app. for technacal office
installing & setuping the N/W of the bank

Education

Bachelor's degree, information system
  • at faculty of computers & information
  • May 2000

Specialties & Skills

Business Analysis
Test Management
Solution Architecture
Testing Activities
VB,Microsoft Office software & autamtion,Oracle DBA, java,java script ,vb script
Leadership and team leading
Test Leading
Team Management
Solution Architecture
Business Analysis
requirements gathering
business requirements
planning
requirements analysis

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Languages

English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Professional Scrum Product Owner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2020
PMP (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2021
Professional Scrum Master (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2020
TMFourm (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2017
Togaf 9 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2019
ISTQB (Certificate)
ITIL v3 (Certificate)
ISTQB - Test Manager (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Travelling
    Travelled to many countries as UAE, Kuwait, Lebanon , Ghana , Sierra Leone , Kenya , KSA, China