Zara Sikandar

Project Manager

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

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

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

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