Zain Ahmed Syed, Principal SQA Specialist

Zain Ahmed Syed

Principal SQA Specialist

Veripark

Location
Pakistan
Education
Master's degree, Software Project Management
Experience
12 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :12 years, 0 Months

Principal SQA Specialist at Veripark
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since March 2023

- Developing and implementing quality assurance policies and procedures: Defining and implementing quality standards and processes across the organization.
- Ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations: Ensuring that the company's products and services meet all relevant regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Designing and implementing testing processes: Creating and implementing testing processes and procedures to ensure that the products and services meet all quality standards.
- Managing and training quality assurance staff: Training quality assurance staff, and managing their work assignments and schedules.
- Analyzing and reporting on quality metrics: Analyzing quality metrics and generating reports on the performance of the company's products and services.
- Collaborating with cross-functional and regional teams: Work closely with other teams, such as engineering, product management, and customer support, to ensure that all quality issues are identified and resolved timely.
- Developing and implementing continuous improvement initiatives: Identifying areas for improvement and developing initiatives to improve quality across the organization.
- Ensuring that the company's products and services meet the highest quality standards and that quality is an integral part of the company's culture and processes.

Senior SQA Specialist at Veripark
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2020 to February 2023

- Document and Inspect Quality Documents in all phases
-Document, Maintain & Review Test Plans, Test Cases
-Review and Validation of the requirement documents (BRD, FRD, CRs)
-Analyze and Prioritize the Business Requirements and Functional Change
-Analyze, Review and Test Demo Flows and Customers Journey
-Demonstration of the application flows to internal teams and client
-Team Management: Leading a team of 4 to 5 QAs across different nationalities
-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
-Project coordination with implementation team across different Nationalities

SQA Specialist at Veripark
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • May 2018 to January 2020

- Developed and executed test plans and test cases to ensure the functionality, usability, and reliability of software products.
-Prepare, Review and Managing data for Demo and Products with respect to banking standards
-Led the testing efforts for multiple projects related to banking applications.
-Test CRM and omnichannel products with respect to requirements and Demo readiness
-Conducted manual and automated testing using Katalon and other testing tools.
-Managed defect tracking and resolution process, ensuring timely and accurate communication of issues and resolutions to stakeholders.
-Cross-Culture coordination with implementation team for Demos and projects
-Support and Train Pre-Sales, Business Team, and Clients
-Project coordination with the implementation team
-Collaborated with cross-functional teams including developers, business analysts, and project managers to ensure successful project delivery.
-Trained and mentored junior team members to improve their testing skills and capabilities.

SQA Engineer (Level - II) at Matrix Systems Pvt Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • March 2016 to May 2018

- Understand the Business Requirements & Functional Change.
-Document & inspect different documents that is part of SDLC.
-Developed and executed test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
-Perform Smoke Testing or Sanity Testing.
-Conducted functional, regression, and performance testing for banking applications.
-Conducted Manual Testing and Automated Testing using Selenium and other testing tools.
-Coordinated with development teams to ensure the timely resolution of defects and issues.
-Compare & Validate Data in Databases.
-Report Bugs & Errors through end-to-end testing of user flow.
-Analyzed and reported on software defects and testing results to stakeholders.
-Contributed to the development and implementation of testing best practices and methodologies.
-Collaborated with business stakeholders to ensure the successful delivery of projects.
-Train and onboard new resources to company process.

SQA Engineer at Access group
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • January 2015 to February 2016

- Understand the Business Requirements & Functional Change.
-Developed and executed test plans, test cases, and test scripts.
-Functional Testing on Mobile Financial System (FUNDAMO) & CRM System (SIEBEL CRM).
-Perform Back-end testing using Microsoft SQL Server for database validation.
-Prepare, Maintain & Inspect Testing documents.
-Worked with development teams to resolve defects and issues.
-Analyzed and reported on software defects and testing results to stakeholders.
-Managing & Training of Subordinates.

SQA Engineer at Meezan Bank Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • June 2012 to December 2014

- Involved in requirement gathering process, Identifying and understanding the functional points.
-Manage and improve Test Plans and Reports, Change Requests, User manuals, RTMs.
-Achieve Smoke, Functional & Regression Testing within timelines.
-Developed and executed test plans and test cases to ensure software functionality, usability, and reliability.
-Ensure smooth deployment of banking application(s).
-Communicate with end-users and conduct UAT.
-Collaborated with developers, business analysts, and project managers to ensure successful project delivery.
-Managed defect tracking and resolution process.
-Worked with cross-functional teams to identify and resolve issues.

Education

Master's degree, Software Project Management
  • at National University Of Computer And Emerging Sciences
  • December 2019

Studied in depth the innovative and latest Software Project Management Techniques and Tools

Specialties & Skills

Document Design
Teamwork
User Acceptance Testing
Manual Testing
Team Integration
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
DEFECT TRACKING
MANAGEMENT
MANUAL TESTING
PERFORMANCE TESTING
CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
COMMUNICATIONS
REGRESSION TESTING
SMOKE TESTING
TEAM MANAGEMENT

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Hobbies

  • Adventure Sports, Travelling