Mirza Asif Azim
House
# 1653 Street #20/2 Block C Cell:
+92 333 5217 646 Email: [email protected]
National Police Foundation 0-9
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:
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MB5-858
Managing Microsoft Dynamics Implementation
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MB3-859
MS Dynamics GP 2010 Financials
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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
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Lead Daily Project Planning Meeting
and analyse tasks progress
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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
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Manage, lead, and mentor QA engineers
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Setup an automated testing
environment and work with the QA team to develop automated test cases
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Manage all aspects of quality
assurance
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Coordinate integrated tests among all
internal teams
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Perform verification on the reported
bugs and implement the priority of the bugs fixings based on a specified time
frame
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Set objectives and priority for team
members
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Manage risks by providing guidance
and solutions
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Responsible for meeting schedule and
quality requirements
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Write and execute test cases as
needed
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Validate test cases built by team
members
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Working with Development and QA
Engineers - Develop scope, plan, estimate and schedule QA activities
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Evaluate and recommend enhancements
to QA processes and systems
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Demonstrated ability to clearly
articulate an idea, concept, or position on topics within the QA/Test domain.
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Have ability to make well-reasoned
decisions by carefully listening to and critically evaluating evidence and
arguments made by various team members.
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Proven ability to write concise,
complete, well organized bug reports, test cases, and status reports.
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Ability to evaluate team’s skills and
through hands on work and mentoring, help them continually grow their testing
and technical skills.
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Document all stages of the QA process
to define & improve best practices in the Software Testing space
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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.
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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.
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Consulting the deployment team.
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Evaluating, assigning the appropriate
resource and schedule a meeting for work around.
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Load/Stress Testing whenever required
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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.
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Consulting the deployment team.
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Evaluating, assigning the appropriate
resource and schedule a meeting for work around.
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Load/Stress Testing whenever required
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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,
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 –
- 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
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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,
Area of specialization: Software
Engineering
Bachelor
Commerce – (2001),
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
:
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Internal Auditor of
CMMI Models and its Processes
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UAT at client side
till go live
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Being
Scrum Master make sure about the Implementation of Agile methodology and scrum
process
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Complete
Software Development Life Cycle understanding and management.
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Development
of Software Quality Assurance plan & test cases using different tools.
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Practical
Experience & Knowledge of Configuration Management.
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ASP/html
Web Application Development.
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Database
analysis and design, development and administration in MS SQL Server 2000 and
MS Access.
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Development,
maintenance and troubleshooting of computer networks on Microsoft Windows
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Knowledge
of ISO Quality Standards.
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Managing
the admin and consulting work of HR and software implementation tasks
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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
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:
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Reading
Research Papers and Reference Books
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Interior
Decoration
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Listening
to music
References
will be furnished on demand