Waqas Sheikh, Lead SQA Specialist

Waqas Sheikh

Lead SQA Specialist

Veripark Gulf

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Experience
18 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :18 years, 0 Months

Lead SQA Specialist at Veripark Gulf
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2012

• Lead and coordinate with QA team members in different countries and time Zones for MS Dynamic CRM & e-banking projects
• Verification of Internet Banking and e-Banking CRM Application
• Onsite Support & Implementation of local and international clients
• Onsite UAT Trainings of local and international clients in other GCC Countries
• Requirement Elicitation, Business Analysis & Design of the Systems
• Coordinate with Client Business and IT teams for preparation of SRS and FSDs
• Gap Analysis & Product Analysis as per Requirements
• Cross-Organization Collaboration
• Streamlining, integrating and improving the QA Lifecycle
• Documentation of Test cases, Verification Status Reports

SQA Lead at TPS Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • July 2010 to January 2012

- Team Management: Leading a team of 8 to 9 SQAs, Comprising three different products
- Impact Analysis: Identification of impacts so as to ensure that the new business requirements do not break the existing implementation. Closely involved with the analysis team in determination of impacts and complete system analysis.
- Delegating the task to team members given from management
- Project coordination with implementation team
- Change requests reviews
- Writing the documents such as SQA SOPs, Test Plan and Test Cases

Senior SQA Engineer at TPS Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2007 to June 2010

• Validation & Verification of the Banking Applications
• Regression and Integration Testing of the application
• Functional Testing by requirement document
• Simulating Banking scenarios to test the products
• Used PVCS Tracker for issue tracking
• Writing the documents such as SQA SOPs, test plan and test cases

SQA Engineer at Daedalus Software Inc,
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • April 2006 to April 2007

• Writing and executing Test Cases of the application
• Black Box Testing of the application
• Regression and Integration Testing of the application
• Used Test Track Pro (Seapine Softwares) for bug reporting
• Functional Testing by requirement document

Education

Master's degree, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
  • at SZABIST
  • May 2011
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineer
  • at Karachi Institute of Engineering & Technology
  • August 2006

GPA = 3.32 Internships = Jan 2006 – Mar 2006 STRATEGEZ Gulistan-i-Jauhar, Karachi. Functional Testing by requirement document

Specialties & Skills

Team Management
Black Box Testing
Quality Assurance
Banking Software
Internet Banking
Writing Test cases, Functional Testing, Regression testing, Integration testing, Smoke Testing

Languages

English
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Effective Software Quality Assurance & Testing (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2008
Valid Until:
September 2008

Hobbies

  • Book Reading and adventures