Mirza Asif Azim

 

House # 1653 Street #20/2 Block C
National Police Foundation 0-9 Islamabad, Pakistan

Cell: +92 333 5217 646

                  Email: [email protected]

 

 
 

 



Objective:

Challenging development and administrative position within professional environment providing opportunity for growth and career advancement that will enable me to serve in more enhanced way.

 

Certifications:

§  MB5-858 Managing Microsoft Dynamics Implementation

§  MB3-859 MS Dynamics GP 2010 Financials

§  MB3-701 MS Dynamics GP 2013 Financials

           

Professional Experience:

           

§  Product Manager – Quality Assurance, HiQu Systems, Islamabad [PDM Technologies, USA]

June 18, 2012 – Present (www.pdmtech.com)

-       Manage and execute deployment plans as per the defined plan for various clients.

-       Make sure that at every stage of deployment proper backups have taken and scripts got executed

-       Transactional testing before restoring database

-       Perform smoke test after deployment (Before Go Live)

-       Assign post deployment issues to specific teams and make sure that proper fix has been applied after having backups. Execute regression test after deploying the fixes

-       Arrange Sprint Review Meeting and analyse over all progress of Project as per current sprints and analyse impediments that can disturb overall sprint/deployments

-       Lead Daily Project Planning Meeting and analyse tasks progress

-       Analyze the client issue whether its change, training or a bug and address it accordingly. In case of a bug manage it with proper versioning after consulting with the deployment and QA team

-       Manage, lead, and mentor QA engineers

-       Setup an automated testing environment and work with the QA team to develop automated test cases

-       Manage all aspects of quality assurance

-       Coordinate integrated tests among all internal teams

-       Perform verification on the reported bugs and implement the priority of the bugs fixings based on a specified time frame

-       Set objectives and priority for team members

-       Manage risks by providing guidance and solutions

-       Responsible for meeting schedule and quality requirements

-       Write and execute test cases as needed

-       Validate test cases built by team members

-       Working with Development and QA Engineers - Develop scope, plan, estimate and schedule QA activities

-       Evaluate and recommend enhancements to QA processes and systems

-       Demonstrated ability to clearly articulate an idea, concept, or position on topics within the QA/Test domain.

-       Have ability to make well-reasoned decisions by carefully listening to and critically evaluating evidence and arguments made by various team members.

-       Proven ability to write concise, complete, well organized bug reports, test cases, and status reports.

-       Ability to evaluate team’s skills and through hands on work and mentoring, help them continually grow their testing and technical skills.

-       Document all stages of the QA process to define & improve best practices in the Software Testing space

-       Perform test case reviews and provide feedback to team members in developing appropriate test cases and strategies


Test/Defect Management:
QTP 9.2, TFS, Lori, Web Performance 4.0, Jira, Selenium, Load Runner, Key note, Xenus

-       Configuration Management: Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Team Foundation Server

§  Scrum Master- Quality Assurance , Digital Prodigy limited Systems, Islamabad [DPL]
April 04, 2011 –
June 18, 2012  (www.dplit.com)

 

-       Managing Sprints and make sure sprints meets the dead line with defined goals

-       Arrange Sprint Review Meeting and analyse over all progress of Project as per current sprints and analyse impediments that can disturb overall sprint

-       Arrange Retrospective Meetings after the sprint review meeting. In this meeting, team inspects and explores how it has been working within the Scrum processes. Based on this analysis, team might decide to adapt its processes to improve its own effectiveness, productivity, quality, and satisfaction.

-       Lead Daily Scrum Meeting and analyse tasks progress

-       Review Peer review plans, Test Plans, Audit Plans, and Quality Assurance Plan for every new projects and make sure to meet the defined/estimated time lines

-       Review Test Cases to perform efficient Testing of the Functional/Non Functional Requirements of the application.

-       Walkthrough & Inspection Reviews.

-       Evaluation and testing of new and modified software programs and software development procedures to verify their conformance according to the user requirements and establishment guidelines.

-       Writing, revising, and verifying quality standards and test procedures for program design and product evaluation to attain quality of software economically and efficiently.

-       Consulting the deployment team.

-       Evaluating, assigning the appropriate resource and schedule a meeting for work around.

-       Load/Stress Testing whenever required

-       Implementation and maintenance of Agile Methodology and scrum process for new projects

Mobile Technologies: Android and iPhone

Test/Defect Management: QTP 9.2, BTNET, Xenus, Lori, Web Performance 4.0, Keynote, Jira

-       Configuration Management: Microsoft Visual Source Safe, Project Management System

 

§  Senior Software Quality Assurance Lead, Digital Processing Systems, Islamabad [DPS Inc, USA]
August 2008 – April 22, 2011 (www.dpspk.com)

 

-       Writing Peer review plans, Test Plans, Audit Plans, and Quality Assurance Plan for every new projects and make sure to meet the defined/estimated time lines

-       Writing Test Cases to perform efficient Testing of the Functional/Non Functional Requirements of the application.

-       Walkthrough & Inspection Reviews.

-       Implement Quality model of CMMI Level 3

-       Evaluation and testing of new and modified software programs and software development procedures to verify their conformance according to the user requirements and establishment guidelines.

-       Writing, revising, and verifying quality standards and test procedures for program design and product evaluation to attain quality of software economically and efficiently.

-       Consulting the deployment team.

-       Evaluating, assigning the appropriate resource and schedule a meeting for work around.

-       Load/Stress Testing whenever required

-       Implementation of Agile Methodology and scrum process for new projects

-       Test/Defect Management: Mercury Interactive Test Director,

-       Configuration Management: Microsoft Visual Source Safe

 

§  Consultant Software Quality Assurance Engineer, HiQu Systems, Islamabad [PDM Technologies, USA] (Part Time)

August 2008 – March 2010 (www.pdmtech.com)
 

-       Evaluating and updating the Test Cases to perform efficient Testing of the Functional/Non Functional Requirements of the application.

-       Walkthrough & Inspection Reviews.

-       Evaluation and testing of new and modified software programs and software development procedures to verify their conformance according to the user requirements and establishment guidelines. Consulting the deployment team.

-       Consulting the deployment team.

-       Managing the post deployment issues directly with the foreign clients.

-       Evaluating, assigning the appropriate resource and schedule a meeting for work around.

-       Test/Defect Management: Mercury Interactive Test Director, Team Foundation Server

-       Configuration Management: Microsoft Visual Source Safe

 

 

§  Software QA & Support Engineer, HiQu Systems, Islamabad [PDM Technologies, USA]

October 2006 – October 2008      (www.pdmtech.com)
 

-       Writing Test Cases to perform efficient Testing of the Functional/Non Functional Requirements of the application.

-       Walkthrough & Inspection Reviews.

-       Evaluation and testing of new and modified software programs and software development procedures to verify their conformance according to the user requirements and establishment guidelines.

-       Writing, revising, and verifying quality standards and test procedures for program design and product evaluation to attain quality of software economically and efficiently.

-       Consulting the deployment team.

-       Managing the post deployment issues directly with the foreign clients.

-       Evaluating, assigning the appropriate resource and schedule a meeting for work around.

-       Test/Defect Management: Mercury Interactive Test Director, Team Foundation Server, Microsoft SharePoint

-       Configuration Management: Microsoft Visual Source Safe

 

 

§  MIS Officer/System Developer, AMSON Vaccines & Pharma (Pvt) Ltd. (www.amson.org.pk)

September 2004 – October 1st 2006

-       Analyst and software application architect for various development projects.

-       Project Distribution into Modules then Phases then Tasks and distribute it to development team

-       Network Administration & Troubleshooting.

-       Formulating and implementing a disaster prevention and recovery strategy

-       Assisting in developing standards for server, communication, and network infrastructure

-       Collaborating with management for specific requirements of a project

-       Application/Database administrator of the Company’s ERP based e-Warehouse software.

-       Development/maintenance & administration of Web sites for HEP Pak Foundation (www.heppak.org.pk), AMSON UK Office (www.amsonuk.org) & AMSON Pak Office (www.amson.org.pk)

-       All Technical/Non Technical Documentation for the IT Department.

-       Acting as Department Internal ISO Auditor

 

 

 

Education:

 

 

MSE (Software Engineering) (Hons) – (2001-2004),

COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad (www.comsats.edu.pk)

Area of specialization: Software Engineering

 

 

 

 

Bachelor Commerce – (2001),

Punjab University, Lahore (

 

www.pu.edu.pk)

            Area of specialization: Commerce, Financial Accounting

 

CA- FE-1- (1999-2001)
CFMS, H-8/1, Islamabad
Area of specialization: Commerce, Financial Accounting, Auditing
 

 

Professional Skills :

 

§  Internal Auditor of CMMI Models and its Processes

§  UAT at client side till go live

§  Being Scrum Master make sure about the Implementation of Agile methodology and scrum process

§  Complete Software Development Life Cycle understanding and management.

§  Development of Software Quality Assurance plan & test cases using different tools.

§  Practical Experience & Knowledge of Configuration Management.

§  ASP/html Web Application Development.

 

§  Database analysis and design, development and administration in MS SQL Server 2000 and MS Access.

 

 

 

§  Development, maintenance and troubleshooting of computer networks on Microsoft Windows

§  Knowledge of ISO Quality Standards.

§  Managing the admin and consulting work of HR and software implementation tasks

§  Actively participating in review meetings of product implementation

 

 

 

 Professional Projects:

 

Autobytel (http://www.autobytel.com)

 

A system that helps an end user to explore, compare vehicles of their own choice, browse different models, body styles, features, new-cars, used-cars etc and submit lead against the selected dealers, vehicle and provided zip. Application enriched with make, models with all detailed features with top10 listing etc
Role: Manage, lead the sprints and report the bugs to the client and compiling the Sprint results to the client and development team.

 

Cyber car system (http://www.autodiscountgroup.com)

 

These are the PPC sites and different campaigns launched against different vehicles to boost the sales in different areas. All these sites are configurable includes landing page, step2page and thankyou page. It also has a feature to submit comparable leads that helps end user to submit leads against its selected vehicle.

It also helps in measuring click and conversion to boost the ROI (Return on Investment) against the smart KW’s in different campaigns that have been uploaded in Google adwords and Bing Adcenters. This is a very dynamic system that returns 3 different kinds of dealers i.e., ALNET, Cyber and CPS against different services like AUSA, Dealix.

 

User Acceptance Testing Of Zain Create (http://www.zaincreate.com)


Have done the UAT for the multimedia Project of World leading Telecom Company in Bahrain for 5 different countries i.e., Bahrain, Kuwait, Sudan, Jordan and Nigeria. My role was as the UAT lead for the multimedia project on IE, Safari and ODP that covers 7 different ODP’s for each country.

Role: Analysis, compiling and presenting the UAT results to the client

 

E-services Manager (intranet) (HiQu Systems)

E-services manager is an ERP based account application which helps media

Companies (but not limited to) to manage their budget/expenses for an

Advertisement campaigns.

Application has main modules like Setup account setup, initial setup for all

Screens, Maintenance (timesheet, expense sheet), Approvals, billing, User

Personalization (Dashboard).

E-Warehouse Software (http://www.amson.org.pk )

An ERP Based e-warehouse solution for AMSON, which incorporated all the major departments, including Warehouse, Distribution, Marketing, Distribution Accounts and Finance Department, Various in-depth analysis reports provided instant access to relevant information. My role was as the System Analyst, database designer, assuring conformance with the Quality Standards of ISO Standards and also on the part of the Technical Documentation of the software.

Also developed the e-Health, e-fleet Insurance modules for the Company

Role: Analysis/Designing, Development, Change Management Reviewer, Quality Assurance/Testing, Technical Documentation, User Training.

 

 

 

Interests:

§  Reading Research Papers and Reference Books

§  Interior Decoration

§  Listening to music

 

References will be furnished on demand