Ameer Ahamed
QA Lead transitioning to Product Owner
Bangalore
Summary
Experienced QA Lead with over a decade of Agile software development experience, transitioning to a Product Owner role. Holds a PSPO I certification, skilled in backlog management, user story refinement, and promoting stakeholder collaboration. Known for aligning QA strategies with product goals to deliver customer-centric solutions in fast-paced, regulated industries like BFSI and Risk Management.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Product Owner
IBM India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
09.2022 - Current
- Collaborate with Product Owners and BAs to define testable business requirements.
- Contribute QA insights during backlog refinement and sprint planning.
- Supported agile methodology adoption across teams, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability within the organization.
- Manage UAT strategy and coordinate test planning, execution, and reporting.
- Coordinated communication between project stakeholders, ensuring timely updates on testing progress and results.
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies and provide risk-based QA analysis.
- Deliver readiness reports and demos to business stakeholders.
- Established testing procedures to codify consistent, high-quality approach.
- Streamlined the testing process by developing automated test scripts for regression and functional testing.
- Managing release activities, including creating release notes and upgrade guides (Go-
LIVE). - Achieved high levels of customer satisfaction through diligent verification of bug fixes before final release approval.
Test Lead
MetricStream India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
03.2013 - 09.2022
- Interfaced with business and technical teams to define and refine backlog items.
- Delivered product walkthrough and UAT training for enterprise clients.
- Led defect triage and supported release management across client environments.
- Acted as SME for GRC modules; supported deployment for top-tier financial institutions.
- Created detailed test strategies and drove implementation support post-go-live
- Track Lead for “Production Support– BAU track” and responsible for all production
delivery cycle (Includes Hotfixes, Datafix for the production data validation and delivery) - Responsible for all the activities which are necessary for QA process, includes the
requirement analysis, drafting TS & TCs, Database testing (SQL), Discussion with BA team
for Requirement, provides peer review comments, show & tell session(demos), Defect
triage with Dev and Customer. - Involved in UAT testing, Functional testing, Regression testing, E2E Sanity and Defect
Tracking &Reporting during all releases and Production upgrade
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Sri Krishnadevaraya University
Anantapur 01.2007 - 01.2010
Skills
Agile Product Lifecycle
Scrum Ceremonies
Product Backlog Management
Grooming
User Story Writing
Acceptance Criteria
Stakeholder Engagement
End-User Engagement
Test Strategy
UAT Execution
Jira
undefinedCertification
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I), Scrum.org
Timeline
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I), Scrum.org
11-2024
Product Owner
IBM India Pvt Ltd
09.2022 - Current
Test Lead
MetricStream India Pvt Ltd
03.2013 - 09.2022
Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
Sri Krishnadevaraya University
01.2007 - 01.2010
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