Aliasgar Shakir
Project Manager
Indore
Summary
AMEX Card| Online Banking| Bill Payment| Health Plan| Compliance| Accessibility| ADA 508| Project Management| Risk Analysis| Quality Engineer| Business Analyst|
Quality Assurance Manger over 16+ Years of experience in the field of Information Technology as Quality Analysis & Testing, Accessibility Testing and Project Management.
Possesses versatile skills in project management, problem-solving, and collaboration. Brings fresh perspective and strong commitment to quality and success. Recognized for adaptability and proactive approach in delivering effective solutions. Results-oriented achiever with proven ability to exceed targets and drive success in fast-paced environments. Combines strategic thinking with hands-on experience to deliver impactful solutions and enhance organizational performance.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
2002
2002
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages
Work History
Project Manger
Dun and Bradstreet, American Express
09.2020 - 07.2024
- Prepare project plan with risk, dependencies and resource management
- Preparing requirements and estimation sheet in program increment (PI) planning meeting
- Attend all the meetings with PO team and proceed further on discussion
- Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
- Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
- Monitored progress against established goals, adjusting schedules and resources as needed to keep projects on track.
- Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
Sr. Lead Quality Engineer
Digital Insight, NCR
04.2017 - 09.2020
- Run the Scrum calls and playing the role of Scrum Master.
- Preparing requirements and estimation sheet in program increment (PI) planning meeting.
- Attend all the meetings with the PO team and proceed further on discussion.
- Understand the requirement and, per the requirement, discuss and develop the product with the team. If there is a gap, then explain it to the respective developer.
- Conducted root cause analyses for major defects, leading to effective corrective actions, preventing future occurrences.
- Led a team of engineers to identify and resolve critical defects, ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Facilitated cross-training among team members for enhanced knowledge sharing and skill diversification, fostering a versatile workforce capable of tackling various challenges in the ever-evolving field of engineering.
- Improved product quality by developing and implementing comprehensive testing strategies.
- Mentored junior engineers on quality assurance methodologies, fostering a culture of excellence within the team.
- Analyzed and interpreted customer requirements to develop engineering solutions.
- Led engineering teams to successfully complete projects on time and within budget.
Lead Quality Engineer
Intuit
04.2014 - 03.2017
- To lead Accessibility engineers, including developers and QA.
- We are the Accessibility team, and our basic responsibility is to provide Accessibility enablement for the online banking application.
- Analyze the application from an accessibility perspective and find out the gaps, and formulate this gap into a requirement.
- Create a test plan for accessibility and test case reviews.
- Conformance checking for 508 compliance and WCAG 2.0.
- Test the application using screen reader tool JAWS, NVDA for Windows operating system, and VoiceOver for Mac.
- Test application on mobile devices, using TalkBack for Android and VoiceOver for iPhones.
- Report accessibility issues and log them into JIRA for tracking. Further, carry them to the product owner to prioritize.
- Handle clients' issues, reproduce them, and provide a fix based on severity/priority.
- Perform Smoke Testing, Functional Testing, Sanity Testing, and Regression Testing to check whether Accessibility should not cause any functional/UI defect.
- To work with senior management for resource planning, scope assessment, communication plan, and defect reports.
- CAS configuration changes, REST client used for enabling/disabling any feature/configuration.
- Streamline the code review process and be responsible for checking in the code in the correct branch with proper comments.
- Maintain accessibility enablement work in such a manner where the client's ongoing development should not get affected.
- Daily communication with onsite engineer for Accessibility enablement on the feature, parallel to their development.
- Prepare and share (weekly) project status report with all the stakeholders.
- Carry out a meeting with the PM, Design team, or Engineering Manager for any changes or impacts due to accessibility enablement.
- Optimized test plans for maximum coverage while minimizing resource utilization, striking an ideal balance between effectiveness and efficiency.
Module Lead Quality Engineer
Trintech
12.2010 - 03.2014
- To work with senior management for resource planning, scope assessment, testing framework, communication plan, and defect reports.
- Proactively identified opportunities for enhancing existing modules, leading to improvements in performance and usability for end users.
- Maintained expert knowledge of industry trends and advancements in module development technologies, ensuring that our organization remained competitive within the market landscape.
- Understand the user stories and create the test cases. If required, get user story clarified from the PM.
- Test the health plans as per the state rules from the USA.
- Run smoke test on new build using automation, if required, fix/update the scripts.
- To write the automation scripts in Selenium for any new health plan introduced for any state.
- To write the automation scripts in Selenium for any new feature modification, update, or enhancement for health plans under any state.
- To attend the daily scrum meeting and provide the daily updates.
- To attend the retrospective meeting at the end of the iteration and provide feedback.
- Perform black box testing on the application and provide guidance to peers when required.
- Coordinating the Onshore/Offshore team with respect to QA activities.
- Performed smoke testing, functional testing, sanity testing, and regression testing.
Quality Engineer
Trintech
03.2008 - 11.2010
- Understand the user stories and create the test cases. If required, get user story clarified from the PM.
- To attend the daily scrum meeting and provide the daily updates.
- To attend the retrospective meeting at the end of the iteration and provide feedback.
- Perform black box testing on the application and provide guidance to peers when required.
- Handle modification and enhancement issues.
- Performed smoke testing, functional testing, sanity testing, and regression testing.
Education
Masters of Computer Management -
North Maharashtra University
Jalgaon, India04-2003
Skills
Project Management
Project Planning, Project Tracking
Risk Management, Schedule Management
Project Scheduling, Technical Support
Document Management
Scope Management, Client Relations
Root Cause Analysis
Resource Allocation
Compliance Monitoring
Agile Methodology
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Stakeholder Communications
Project Closure
Software Development Lifecycle
Functional & Business Requirements
Selenium20 (WebDriver), JAVA
TestNG, ReportNG
Manual, API, Backend Testing
Rally, JIRA, TFS
Accessibility Testing
JAWS, VoiceOver, NVDA
HDFS, HIVE
AWS, GCP
Eclipse, SVN
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 09/07/76
- Gender: Male
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Project Manger
Dun and Bradstreet, American Express
09.2020 - 07.2024
Sr. Lead Quality Engineer
Digital Insight, NCR
04.2017 - 09.2020
Lead Quality Engineer
Intuit
04.2014 - 03.2017
Module Lead Quality Engineer
Trintech
12.2010 - 03.2014
Quality Engineer
Trintech
03.2008 - 11.2010
Masters of Computer Management -
North Maharashtra University