Mukramuddin Mohammed

As an Agile Project Manager, my responsibilities include:

• Strategic Project Prioritization & Management: Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Facilitating Agile Ceremonies: Leading and facilitating all key Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, to ensure effective communication1 and progress.
• Backlog Management and Prioritization: Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to refine and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring a clear understanding of features and user stories.
• Team Empowerment and Coaching: Coaching and mentoring Agile teams on Scrum principles and practices, fostering a self-organizing and cross-functional environment.
• Impediment Removal: Proactively identifying and removing impediments that hinder team progress, ensuring a smooth workflow and continuous delivery.
• Stakeholder Communication and Alignment: Maintaining transparent communication with stakeholders, providing regular updates on project progress, risks, and achievements, and ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Agile Metrics and Reporting: Tracking and reporting on key Agile metrics, such as burn-down charts, velocity, and lead time, to monitor team performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Continuous Improvement: Championing continuous improvement within the team and across the organization by encouraging experimentation, learning from retrospectives, and implementing best practices.
• Risk Management and Mitigation: Identifying and assessing potential risks to project delivery and developing effective mitigation strategies in an Agile context.
• Quality Assurance Integration: Working closely with the team to ensure quality is built into the development process from the outset, promoting test-driven development and continuous integration.
• Resource Coordination: Collaborating with internal resources and external vendors to ensure the Agile team has the necessary tools and support for successful project execution.

• Mentored junior testers in best practices and methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous learning and growth within the team.
• Conducted root cause analysis on defects, providing valuable insights for future development improvements.
• Streamlined testing processes for increased efficiency and reduced project turnaround time.
• Ensured compliance with industry regulations by conducting thorough security testing on applications prior to deployment.
• Introduced risk-based testing techniques that prioritized high-impact areas of application functionality, ensuring optimal allocation of resources towards critical components.
• Led a team of technical testers, effectively delegating tasks and monitoring progress for timely project completion.

• Project Leadership: Led end-to-end manual testing within a Waterfall project framework, facilitating the migration of clients and business processes to the OneSYF Platform as part of the One FD initiative.
• Deliverable Management: Oversaw the complete lifecycle of testing deliverables, including estimations, strategy, planning, test case design, execution, traceability, defect and status reporting, and comprehensive client sign-off.
• Quality Assurance & Compliance: Ensured strict CMMi compliance was maintained across all phases of testing.
• On-time Delivery: Drove and maintained accountability for the timely completion of all project deliverables.

• Manual Testing Lead, MQAssureTM IDAM: Owned the scope, schedule, and quality for all manual testing projects and tasks on the SAP-based ERP and Identity and Access Management platform.
• Scrum Master & Point of Contact: Served as the primary liaison for all manual testing concerns, effectively managing diverse stakeholder needs and providing technical leadership to the testing team.
• Team & Project Management: Directed daily and periodic task planning, assignment, and monitoring for team members.
• Strategic Planning & Risk Mitigation: Developed accurate test estimates, plans, and strategies , while proactively identifying and escalating risks to ensure successful project delivery.
• Team Development: Provided training and mentorship to new and existing team members.

• Manual Test Case Management: Developed and reviewed manual test cases to ensure comprehensive coverage of application functionality.
• Application Quality Assurance: Conducted thorough testing of installed applications, focusing on GUI, functionality, security, and performance. This included verifying functionality and compatibility across various OS versions and device models.
• Team Coordination & Reporting: Assigned tasks to team members, consolidated team progress, and reported status updates to leadership.
• Client Collaboration & Coverage: Participated in weekly client meetings to identify testing gaps and ensure complete functional test case coverage.
• Test Execution & Compliance: Manually executed test plans on applications downloaded via Qualcomm's OTA network, verifying adherence to TBT (presumably "Test Before Test" or similar quality gates) criteria.
• Team Training: Contributed to training sessions for new team members.