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Syed Waqar Abbas

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Technical Program Manager

Firma: OLX
Abschluss: BS Computer Science
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Sprachkenntnisse: deutsch (Grundkenntnisse) | englisch (gut)

Skills

Technical Program Management, Project Management, Agile Coach, Scrum, Kanban, Software development.

Projekthistorie

09/2021 - 03/2023
Technical Program Manager
OLX (Internet und Informationstechnologie, 5000-10.000 Mitarbeiter)

Managing highly Technical Program about decoupling monolith application into microservices ensuring highest quality and standardise ways of working acorss teams.

Program has 6 workstreams including Identity Management, Event Streaming, API Gateway and PWA.

My responsibilties include:
- Define scope & governance of program to ensure we decouple application using best architectural pattern and ensure highest quality using QA shift left practices.
- Led the QA team to transition to QA as enabling function so they write tools & frameworks to support teams
- Led the QA team to ensure that there is clear QA Strategy and standardise practices across the org including test management, approach and QA guild.
- Release management & coordination across various teams & stakeholders and clear definition of done for each workstream to ensure we reach the defined milestones as planned
- Ensuring that we have automated testing in place to releaes faster & load testing for API Gateway to ensure it can handle the load as expect.
- Reporting, risk management, dependencies management and unblocking teams are also part of my responsibilities.


08/2016 - 05/2018
Software Engineer in Test | acting Scrum Master
HERE Technologies GmbH

Application / Project:
HERE WeGo (Android application) & Hyperlocal Awareness Product (real time traffic alerts app) e2e testing.

My responsibilities include:
* Responsible for quality of end to end of both above project (Android applications)
* Define overall product testing strategy
* Coordinate day to day activities related to QA
* Writing new and maintaining E2E and Integration automated testcases using Java and Espresso
* Setup and maintain Continuous Integration (CI) Jenkins jobs as a code
* Prepare QA report, highlighting risks and suggesting mitigating strategies and send to the stakeholders
* Participate in internal ISO audits representing quality team
* Improve ways of working & facilitate Sprint planning, grooming & retrospective meetings

05/2015 - 07/2016
Software Quality Analyst
Credit Suisse Poland (>10.000 Mitarbeiter)

Application / Project (Credit Suisse):
- Automated testing of Web based Risk Portal applicatoin using Java & Selenium.

Responsibilities: 
- Defining Testing Strategy & Test Plan.
- Automate and execution regression testing.
- Automation of testcases for a web based Risk Portal application using Java and Selenium to be used for internal Banking customers.

01/2012 - 05/2015
Software Verification and Integration Engineer and Software Development Engineer
RedKnee Poland

Unified Charging West Project Team:
As a part of Charge@Once Unified (RedKnee charging Prepaid Product) team, I was responsible for:
* Efforts estimation containing resource and timeline estimation from testing point of view
* Define & prioritize the test scope according to the requirements
* Writing Test cases in IPSL (Independent Protocol Simulator Language), which is RedKnee proprietary
language to simulate different protocols calls for (SS7,Diameter,Map)
* Test Automation for future use of Test cases & continuous integration
* Performing complete Regression testing of service to check for any code breakage using automated
regression.
* Performing Load testing, Stress testing, Performance testing, Smoke testing.
* Enabling onsite engineers for new service
* Follow up the bugs for correction, get correction install, test, CI and then deliver to customer.
* Providing L3 support for customer technical queries

I have worked on following key Projects:

AWCC Afghanistan Unified service migration: Participated in various phases of testing of complete new
service based on new Charging product Unified including acceptance support remotely.

Stratus CRM testing Madrid: (Junit, Selenium, SQL, Scrum): I had provided onsite testing support in
Madrid for Billing CRM automated testing using Junit, Selenium & SQL working in a Scrum team.

01/2012 - 03/2013
Software Verification & Integration Engineer
NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS (NSN)

Prepaid Software Product for Telecom operators using NSN development frameworks and Java using
Waterfall methodology. I was also responsible for onsite Customer acceptance testing for Maxis Malaysia.

08/2010 - 01/2012
Software Engineer
NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS (NSN)

NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS (NSN) Islamabad (Pakistan)
I worked as a Software Engineer for the development and testing of Mobile Prepaid Software Product for
Telecom operators using NSN development frameworks and Java using Waterfall methodology.

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