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Amna Shahzadi

Amna Shahzadi

Lahore,Pakistan

Summary

A seasoned IT product professional with a proven track record in leading and delivering diverse projects across multiple sectors. Demonstrated expertise in product management, business analysis, and project lifecycle management. Adept at defining requirements, guiding software development, and ensuring successful project outcomes. Skilled in effective communication with cross-functional stakeholders in various geographic locations.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Technical Product Manager

YAP Holding
UAE
2023.01 - 2023.09
  • Collaborated with executive management to align vision, commitments, and resource requirements.
  • Defined product vision and strategy, owning product ownership throughout the development lifecycle.
  • Wrote stories, acceptance criteria, and requirement documentation, facilitating stakeholder and engineering team reviews.
  • Monitored and improved product performance, leading QA Triage and beta testing for product enhancements.
  • Led product release plans ensuring adherence to security, privacy, and compliance standards.

Projects:

  • B2C Onboarding and Compliance System, Banking and Billing Systems for YAP UAE, Ghana, KSA, and Pakistan.
  • Products: Bill Payment, Multicurrency, Split a Bill, Household, Young, and Card Plans.
  • B2B Onboarding and Loan Product.

Technical Business Analyst

YAP Holding
UAE
2021.03 - 2022.12
  • Supported Technical Product Manager, defining project scope, roadmap, and product brief.
  • Initiated requirement gathering sessions, documented requirements, and prepared BRD and FSD.
  • Designed base templates and mockups, created use case specifications, and developed business requirements.
  • Prioritized product backlog, ensuring effective communication between business needs and development sprints.

Project Manager

Webmasters
Pakistan
2015.11 - 2018.08
  • Coordinated internal and third-party resources, ensuring on-time, within-scope, and on-budget project delivery.
  • Defined project scope, objectives, and developed detailed project plans.
  • Managed changes, tracked project performance, and maintained client relationships.
  • Implemented risk management strategies, ensuring successful project outcomes.

QA Manager

Webmasters
Pakistan
2014.03 - 2015.10
  • Established in-house quality procedures, standards, and specifications.
  • Led a quality-driven engineering culture, improving testing infrastructure, tools, and processes.
  • Implemented and evolved QA processes, ensuring effective test signal and scaling testing efforts.

QA Team Lead

Codeadroits
Pakistan
2013.04 - 2013.12
  • Communicated and tracked any quality risks, gaps or issues and the status of testing initiatives to the stakeholder groups and lead triage meetings
  • Verified and reviewed software and business requirements and improved the testing infrastructure, tools, and processes.

QA Analyst

Codeadroits
Pakistan
2011.11 - 2013.03
  • Identified quality control procedures, recommended preventative and corrective actions.
  • Compiled and analyzed statistical data, ensuring user expectations during the testing process.
  • Drafted quality assurance policies and procedures.

Education

Master in computer science - Information Security

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
2018.09 - 2020.05

Bachelor's degree (Hons) - Computer Science

GIFT University
2007.09 - 2011.05

Master in English -

University of Sargodha
2011.09 - 2012.05

Skills

  • Analytical & Organizational
  • Communication & Flexibility
  • Critical Thinking & Decision Making
  • Team Work & Reliability
  • Problem Solving & Adaptability
  • VB
  • C
  • C
  • JAVA
  • Java Script
  • JQuery
  • MY SQL
  • CSS
  • HTML
  • XML
  • Net
  • PHP

Custom

Available upon request.

Languages

English
Fluent
Urdu
Native

Timeline

Technical Product Manager

YAP Holding
2023.01 - 2023.09

Technical Business Analyst

YAP Holding
2021.03 - 2022.12

Master in computer science - Information Security

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
2018.09 - 2020.05

Project Manager

Webmasters
2015.11 - 2018.08

QA Manager

Webmasters
2014.03 - 2015.10

QA Team Lead

Codeadroits
2013.04 - 2013.12

QA Analyst

Codeadroits
2011.11 - 2013.03

Master in English -

University of Sargodha
2011.09 - 2012.05

Bachelor's degree (Hons) - Computer Science

GIFT University
2007.09 - 2011.05
Amna Shahzadi