Ahmed Galal, Software QA Lead

Ahmed Galal

Software QA Lead

Techno-Hat

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Management And Information Technology
Experience
19 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 5 Months

Software QA Lead at Techno-Hat
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since September 2017

• Project Planning and allocating resources, tracking project progress
• Defect Reporting and Test Execution and Test Summary Preparation
• Preparation of Test Cases /Preparation of Test Data
• Planning and allocating resources to tests/dates in Quality Center.
• Track QA progress against schedule, efforts. Ensure adherence to established processes and methods.
• Designed and wrote the Test Strategy, Test Plan, Business Document, Technical Document and the Functional Documents. Implemented iterative approach to all phases of testing based on business evaluation.

SQA Consultant at Hyperthink Systems
  • Qatar - Doha
  • May 2015 to August 2017

• Review product design documentation to ensure that requirements stated are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable.
• Consult with product development to evaluate system interfaces, operational requirements, and performance requirements of overall system.
• Define test methods and create test plans for new or updated software projects to determine if the software will perform accurately and reliably per documented requirements as well as established standards under both normal and abnormal conditions.
• Maintain effective communication with the project software engineers on project limitation, capability, performance requirement and hardware interface changes.
• Execute test plans and create test reports to describe program evaluation, testing, and correction.
• Work proactively with members of an agile team to find root cause of defects in our product using manual testing.
• Conduct compatibility tests with vendor-provided programs.
• Create test tools that facilitate data gathering and test method execution.
• Participate in risk management meetings

Software QA Lead at SoftZone
  • Qatar - Doha
  • March 2014 to April 2015

• Project Planning and allocating resources, tracking project progress
• Defect Reporting and Test Execution and Test Summary Preparation
• Preparation of Test Cases /Preparation of Test Data
• Planning and allocating resources to tests/dates in Quality Center.
• Track QA progress against schedule, efforts. Ensure adherence to established processes and methods.
• Designed and wrote the Test Strategy, Test Plan, Business Document, Technical Document and the Functional Documents. Implemented iterative approach to all phases of testing based on business evaluation.

Software QA Lead at SoftZone
  • Qatar - Doha
  • March 2014 to April 2015

• Project Planning and allocating resources, tracking project progress
• Defect Reporting and Test Execution and Test Summary Preparation
• Preparation of Test Cases /Preparation of Test Data
• Planning and allocating resources to tests/dates in Quality Center.
• Track QA progress against schedule, efforts. Ensure adherence to established processes and methods.
• Designed and wrote the Test Strategy, Test Plan, Business Document, Technical Document and the Functional Documents. Implemented iterative approach to all phases of testing based on business evaluation.

Business Analyst at National Bank Of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • June 2012 to February 2014

• Involved in set up the main requirements to serve the E-development department as per the annual plans.
• Determine and issue the needed reports design and contents which is supporting the high management decisions.
• Monitoring the vendor’s activities and achievements.
• Playing the middle party between the vendors and the involved Bank’s departments by translating and simplifying requirements using professional communication skills.
• Issuing the BRDs as well reviewing any provided documents by vendors.

Senior QA Engineer at National Bank Of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2007 to June 2012

• Doing manual testing for Intellect releases (core banking), specialist in:
- Retail modules (CIFs, account services, financial transactions)
- Credit operation modules (lending, top-up, dispersal)
• Maintain logs for all the testing related issues and report and communicate test status to manager as per the project plan.
• Prepare the test strategy, test scripts, test data and documentation in line with the Project plan.
• Perform manual testing activities on the software to identify the defects/bugs to provide quality software.
• Plan and Organize tasks so that test activities are performed and completed within the time frames as per the plan

Programmer at National Bank Of Abu Dhabi
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2005 to January 2007

• Developing In-house Applications for cards center using VB6, VB and C#.Net.
• Modify Existing In-house Applications.
• Update Reports and Storage Procedures due to a change in Database Migration.
• IntelliMATCH reconciliation system administrator. • Responsible to manipulate with cards system (Prime V3) as a database developer.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Management And Information Technology
  • at New Cairo Academy
  • September 2004

Graduate Project: Pharmacy Inventory System Grade (A)

Specialties & Skills

Test Planning
Test Cases
Agile Testing
Manual Testing
Functional Requirements
Defect & Bug Tracking
Test Strategies
Documentation
UI & Compatibility Testing
Regression & Negative Testing
Strong Communication
Multitask
Attention to Detail

Languages

English
Expert
Arabic
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

ICDL (Certificate)
Microsoft SQL server 2000 (Certificate)
Microsoft introduction to C#.Net and ASP.Net (Certificate)
ISTQB (Training)
Training Institute:
DUC Academy
OCA (Certificate)

Hobbies

  • Chess
  • Fishing