Saad Imran, Senior QA Analyst

Saad Imran

Senior QA Analyst

 Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) / IBM

Location
Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
Education
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
Experience
17 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 2 Months

Senior QA Analyst at  Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) / IBM
  • Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
  • My current job since January 2012

Currently working with Mobily as Senior QA Analyst.
In current role i worked on different products, i.e. Data connectivity (Ethernet (L2), IP VPN (L3), DDA), Internet services (DIA, Broadband), hosting services (HMC), GSM (Prepaid and Postpaid) and eBusiness Solutions.
I also worked as a part of IBM - Rational Team Concert, IBM - Rational Quality Manager implementation project for gathering requirements and Render expertise to business mapping of AS-IS & TO-BE processes for the project implementation and analysis TO-BE QA processes with AS-IS QA processes.

Responsibilities :
• Providing Quality Assurance leadership, responsible for assuring Organizational Processes and Activities being followed
• Manages and Organizes activities in terms of QA Resource allocations, assignments, processes
• Ensure the implementations of deliverable Products & CRs based on approved Business requirement, Business Processes & SLA
• Analyzing requirements in IT prospect from different following Business units , Starting from Project Knowledge Transfer to Defining Testing Methodologies, Designing Test Plans and Test Case
• Marketing
• Finance
• Customer Care
• Sales

• Worked closely with Application developers, IT business analysts, Product managers and Technical marketing team members to review the designs of systems, implement test plans, , test the quality and effectiveness of software products
• Arrange Products & Service Verification/Testing over IT Integration and Production environment
• Analyzing bugs and interacting with development team (off shore/on site) members in fixing the defects
• Perform User Acceptance Testing to ensure that the system under test meets the user’s needs and provides confidence in its use
• Working closely wıth Quality Management professional providing regular directions and coaching to QA Team to establish QA Center of Excellence with synchronized Processes and Best Practices in place
• Managing Test Automation and Process Re-engineering and synchronization Projects
• Preparing and reviewing status report and publishing the same as Dashboard to all stakeholders in IT
• Participate in internal QA Audits, Document reviews and Inspections

BSS Development Executive at Telenor Pakistan
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • November 2008 to January 2012

I worked as Team Lead BSS (Business Support System) Development Executive with Telenor Pakistan in Enterprise Development Department, Islamabad.

Responsibilities:

My responsibilities include:
• System Analysis, design and development of various software processes/utilities, Testing, Implementation of Software modules and release management to reduce fault rate and improve operational efficiency and to facilitate business and customers using above mentioned enterprise software applications and tools

• Implementation and Testing of new Release/Patches in BSS Systems

• Coordination with BSS Vendors (Accenture, Convergys etc.) and Business users for UAT in BSS systems

• Extraction scripts for ETL for different phases and Providing SQL’s and information of the source system and making SMX for source systems Billing (Geneva), CRM, SIP and Magic Box etc

• Generation of Geneva Billing reporting for business and MIS

• Responsible for release & configuration management along with proper documentation including architecture/design documents and user manual documents

• Proficiency demonstration in diverse facts of business analysis; including Business Process Mapping, Technical Architecture, Workflow Analysis, and e-Communication solutions

• Background managing of all aspects of project lifecycle in wide range

• Worked as SME ( Subject Matter Expert) for Billing (Geneva), SIP for different Data Ware House projects

Software Engineer at Innovative Consulting
  • Pakistan - Islamabad
  • February 2007 to October 2008

I worked as a Software Engineer with following responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Determine information requirements and priorities in the assigned projects

• Determine program specifications, modify and expand existing programs, create new programs
and modules

• Documentation; which outlines the logical steps to be followed in solving problems and preparing

• System specifications including input and output formats and flowcharts. He is quite competent to
work on complex systems, perform program analysis and system development assignments

• Gather system specifications from onboard personal, implement systems and train users

• Define functional requirements with the end user and identify modules, special processing
routines and interface requirements

• Provide continuing support to existing systems to ensure that these systems operate in a fashion
consistent with the requirements of the management/ end user

Education

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering
  • at Bahria University, Islamabad
  • December 2007

Specialties & Skills

Software Testing
Business Analysis
Software Development
Quality Management
Oracle 10g
UNIX shell scripting
ASP. Net
Geneva 5.3 / Infinys 2.2

Training and Certifications

01 month training on Geneva 5.3 and Infinys 2.2 by Converges, UK (Training)
Training Institute:
Converges, UK
Date Attended:
October 2010
Duration:
80 hours
PL/SQL Development (Training)
Training Institute:
Oranet
Date Attended:
July 2009
Duration:
40 hours
DOC 1 (Training)
Training Institute:
Accenture
Date Attended:
September 2011
Duration:
14 hours
SQA (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
April 2013
Duration:
14 hours