Zara Sikandar, Project Manager

Zara Sikandar

Project Manager

PureLogics

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Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
Experience
10 years, 7 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :10 years, 7 Months

Project Manager at PureLogics
  • Pakistan
  • My current job since December 2018

Project Manager

Project Manager at DevBatch Pvt. Ltd
  • Pakistan
  • November 2017 to November 2018

Responsible for the project management throughout the entire project lifecycle.
- Define Project Scope with BA
- Create Project Plans
- Managing Teams
- Risk Analysis
- Managing Risks and Issues
- Involved in all phases of the project lifecycle (from concept and requirements through launch and
support
- Contributed to successful closure of projects, with applications released on time and in budget
- Monitoring and Reporting Progress
- Attends weekly, monthly meetings with the clients
- Under the direction of CEO, manages, supervises and coordinates IT projects
- Coordinates activities with stakeholders i.e. other divisions, departments, etc.
- Maintaining Jira Agile board including sprint tasks, sprint backlog
- Inform internal resources of project updates / timely communications
- Ensure that testing is performed as per executed contract and brings all scope changes to the attention of management
- Invoice projects as per the executed contract

Project Manager/Scrum Master (Remotely) at DevBatch Pvt. Ltd
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • May 2016 to December 2016

Responsibilities were to manage different projects and facilitate sprint planning, daily scrums, returns and stakeholder meetings.

• Manage projects being a scrum master
• Managing the scrum process with the team
• Create user stories with product owner
• Maintaining Jira agile board including sprint tasks, sprint backlog
• Arranged daily stand-up meetings in order to ensure proper use of the process
• Discuss issues with the team and QA
• Escalate issues to product owner & project manager
• Manage project / product backlog
• Organize sprint planning meeting
• Conduct retrospective meetings
• Assisting with internal and external communication
• Keep team members on track

Associate Project Manager at DevBatch Pvt. Ltd
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2012 to October 2015

I worked in DevBatch Pvt.Ltd as an Associate Project Manger. Experience in various phases of SDLC such as Requirements and Analysis, Design, and Testing.

Responsibilities:
• Project Planning
• Project Organization
• Project Leading
• Project Controlling
• Project Work Plan and Estimation
• Agile and SCRUM Implementation
• Prototyping and Wire Frames
• Client Relations
• Resource Allocation & Development
• Defining Project Scope
• User Stories Creation
• Sprint Planning
• Updating Project Plans
• Maintaining Project files and Documentation
• Communication with Team Members
• Quality Assurance

Project Management Tools:
• JIRA
• Trello
• Asana
• Basecamp
• Pivotal Tracker

Associate Software Engineer at DevBatch Pvt. Ltd
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • June 2012 to October 2015

Worked in DevBatch Pvt.Ltd as Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer. Experience in various phases of SDLC such as Requirements and Analysis, Design, and Testing.

Job Description:
Associate Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Project Coordinator at DevBatch Pvt.Ltd.

Responsible for all Quality Assurance tasks of Mobile and Web Apps along with Project Coordination and Administration work.

Responsibilities:
• Test Planning
• Create and Execute of Test Cases
• Review Test Cases
• Bug Reporting & Verification
• User Acceptance Testing
• Participation in Project Planning & Meetings
• Follow up with development team on bugs
• Project Coordination of Web and Mobile Apps

Specialities:
• Unit Testing
• Integration Testing
• System Testing
• Acceptance Testing
• Stress Testing
• Load Testing
• Regression Testing
• Performance Testing
• Functionality Testing

Project Management and Bug Tracking Tools:
• JIRA
• Trello
• Asana
• Pivotal Tracker

Database Management Tools:
• MS Access
• Navicat

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
  • at The University of Lahore
  • June 2012

Studied Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

Specialties & Skills

Planning
Software Quality Assurance
Product Requirements
Business Analysis
Project Management
Business Analysis
Quality Assurance
Project Management
Management
Monitoring
Scrum Master

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker

Training and Certifications

Certificate of Appreciation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2013
Star Performer Award (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2014
Employee of the Month (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2019
Employee of the Month (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2019

Hobbies

  • Deep passion of flying, loves to travel, listen music and well committed to learn new things!
    Received Star Performer Award.