50-T-DHA Phase-2 Lahore

gshabbir10@gmail.com
+92-300-4419143

Ghulam Shabbir Hashmi

Agile Practitioner/ Project Manager

SUMMARY:
I am a self motivated, ambitious and enthusiastic professional having more then 5 years of
rich experience in the IT industry as a 'Project Manager', 'Software Business Analyst, 'QA
Lead', 'White Box Test Engineer. I have good skills of escorting the projects from jeopardy to
success and closure.

Proven record of leveraging the use of tools, techniques and technology to play a leadership
and vital role for business expansion and organization’s affluence I'm a veritable cornucopia
of ideas on agile methodologies, project management strategies. I have worked on ERP
solutions, desktop and web based applications.

SPECIALITIES:
• Project Management.
• Portfolio Management.
• Business Analysis.
• Program Management.
• ERP Implementation.
• Processes Engineering.
• Cross functional team Leadership.
• Business Outsource Management.
• Product development and marketing.
• Liaison between the customers and the technical team
• Schedule and conduct in house trainings including client training and support.
• Excellent at task requiring vigilance, accuracy, speed, and detection of errors.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Mindblaze Technologies, Lahore PK May 2008 – Present

Websites: www.mindblazetech.com , www.mindblazetech.co.uk

Designation: Agile practitioner/ Project Manager

Responsibilities:
• Managing all projects activities efficiently and effectively.
• Client communication and requirements gathering and analysis.
• Define business scope areas.
• Identify/propose optimal solutions by involving development team.
• Working as a liaison between customer and technical team, translate the business'
requirements into a form that can be understood by the system developers.
• Coordinate with QA Manager about QA plan,Test plan and resources allocation..
• Coordinate with development team to make sure that we are on planned schedule..
• Finalize time lines with the collaboration of the development Lead and QA Manager.
• Work with Design Architects to prepare user friendly design.
• Setup release and iterations in our SDLC management tool (Trac).
• Conduct design navigational flow meetings and take inputs from all relevant
stakeholders and identify deadlock scenarios if any.
• Identify concurrency scenarios and prepare a strategy to handle them with the
collaboration of development team and QA team.
• Proactively participate in managing architectural spikes.
• Update PMO about application quality, stability, reliability, efficiency and releases
schedule.
• Plan strategy for ripple analysis.
• Plan and organize optimization iterations on (code level, database level ).
• Manage team activities and document lessons learned from each iteration.

Systems Ltd July 2007 -May 2008

Website: www.systemsltd.com
Designation: Senior Software Quality Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Manage and assure all QA activities.
• Prepare QA Plan and Test Plan.
• Work with Business Analyst to document requirements.
• Generate test data, Consolidate and review the Test Specification and send it to
relevant stakeholders for review.
• Prepare Test scenario matrix.
• Prepare traceability matrices.
• Perform R&D in different automated testing tools.
• Perform ripple analysis.
• Participate in audit activities.
• Perform automated testing using Selenium.
• Perform R&D in Process Areas, Prepare test beds.
• Identify deadlock scenarios if any.
• Run Application Acceptance testing scenarios, Test the application according to the
test plan using Test Specifications.
• Enter and update bugs in Bugs Tracking System.
 • Prepare Bugs status Report ,Responsible for GUI Testing, System testing, Integration
Testing, Regression Testing,
• Conformance of web 2.0 standards.
• Verify the issues reported by the client.
• Ensure there is no transactional deadlock.
• Responsible for defining Application Acceptance Criteria.
• Prepare Minute Of Meeting of Walk through and Inspections.
• Perform regression testing.
• Manage team activities and document lesson learn.
• Prepare strategy to handle SQL Injections.
• Participate in processes trainings.
• Manage testing cycles.

Daedalus Software Inc Jan 2007-July 2007

Website: www.daedalussoftware.com
Designation: Senior Software Business Analyst & QA Lead.
Responsibilities:
• Client Communication and requirements gathering.
• Business Analysis.
• Prepare QA Plan and Test Plan.
• Prepare Traceability matrices.
• Generate test data.
• Introduce Agile practices, XP Methodology (Test Driven Development).
• Perform Primary Design review and Critical Design review.
• Identify deadlock scenarios.
• Make sure that design is W3C compliance (conformance of web 2.0 standards).
• Perform inspections.
• Perform R&D on automated testing tools.
• Assist Development Manager in Milestone Scheduling.
• Prepare minutes of meetings and assign action items to relevant stakeholders.
• Report inspection bugs in testing tracking tools.
• Automated testing using selenium IDE.
• Prepare Builds Acceptance criteria.
• Perform Black Box Testing and White Box Testing [ Gray Box Testing]
• Perform database persistence testing.
• Communicate with US team to discuss issues, testing strategy etc.
• Perform Load and Stress Testing and prepare test log report and incident report
• Manage testing cycles and assurance of company defined standards and practices
• Manage regression cycles and perform ripple analysis and calculate DRE (Defect
removal efficiency).
OrthoClear Inc (Sister Concern of TRG) Jan 2006 – Dec 2006

Website: http://www.trgworld.com/
Designation: Software QA/Test Engineer.
Responsibilities:
• Perform Black Box Testing.
• Business Analysis.
• Perform White Box Testing.
• Report issues in defect tracking tools.
• Prepare testing scenario matrices.
• Discuss issues with development team and QA Manager.
• Testing environment setup.
• Update QA Manager about application maturity.
• Reproduce scenarios on development environment.
• Defects follow up.
• Regression testing.
• Ripple Analysis.
• Perform R&D on following areas
1. CMMi Processes.
2. Testing Methodologies.
3. Web application testing standards.
4. Automation tools.
5. Software testing life cycle.
6. CSQE outlines.
7. Test Data Preparation checklists.
8. Traceability matrices.
9. Web testing standards.
Time & Event Management Skills: Excellent

Leadership and Management Skills: Excellent

Communication & Presentation Skills: Excellent

Databases Concepts Level: Excellent

DBMS: Oracle, SQL Server

SCM Tools: VSS, Star Team

Languages and Tools: C++, Java, VB, Test Director, Mantis, Toad 8.0, MS Project, MS Office, Trac.

Operating Systems: Windows 9x, 2000, XP, 2003 Server Platforms

Object Oriented Programming Concepts Level: Excellent

Load/Stress testing and Optimizations Benchmarking Tools: siege, Query profiler, sim Client
as Load Runner.

Capture and Relay Tools: Selenium IDE, Selenium RC

Technical Skills & Work Ethics: Excellent

Hard Skills (planning,organizing,managing, controlling, procedures, techniques): Excellent

Soft Skills (Attitude, Behavior): polite, humble, intellectual, self motivated, ambitious, enthusiastic, a
very good listener, down to earth.

Languages Skills: English -Excellent, Urdu -Excellent

Awards and Certifications:

1: PMP Training Netsol .

2: Biztalk Trainings (Systems Ltd).

Education:
BCS (Honors) The University Of Lahore 2001-2005

My Blog: http://www.itshadow.blogspot.com/

References: Will be furnished upon said request.