Sheik Fayazuddin
Software Testing Professional
Dubai,DU
Summary
Current Location : Dubai (UAE)
Skilled Test Manager with 12+ years of experience handling diverse projects related to GUI, API & Datawarehouse with driven and dedicated approach.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Work History
QA Manager
Emirates NBD
Dubai
08.2018 - Current
- Lead a testing team of 5-10 test engineers and deliver testing activities to project as per agreed SLA's and plans.
- Analyze, design and develop Test automation solutions for critical platforms at GUI / API & data validations.
- Develop and review test strategy/plan - allocate and monitor work to teams members.
- Proactively anticipate blockers and risks to project design and execute plans to mitigate the issues.
- Co-ordinate test execution across project work streams.
- Lead daily/weekly calls on project progress and communicate to stakeholders.
- Mentor and coach team members for a continuous learning and improvement culture.
Automation Test Lead
JP Morgan Chase
Bangalore
08.2013 - 08.2018
- Create/Assist/Troubleshoot the development of Test Automation Framework, Standards, Procedures,processes, and best practices as related to Test Automation
- Manage the Daily/Weekly activities of the Test Automation Team Members and support the onboarding of new team members
- Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members, colleagues and/or customers
- Work with project stakeholders to determine the appropriate quality initiatives to implement during system development life cycles
- Support Quality Assurance Lead in upward stakeholder management and day-to-day engagement of the Automation Test team
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with other IT services, IT solution functions and customers to expedite delivery of IT solutions
- Take responsibility for integrity of testing and acceptance activities and coordinates the execution of these activities
- Assist in the development of quality assurance and testing policies, standards and procedures, processes, and best practices as related to automation through a community of practice
- Work with project stakeholders to determine the appropriate quality initiatives to implement during system development life cycles
Senior Automation Test Engineer
Europe Outsourcing Practice, Scimitar
Bangalore
07.2010 - 08.2013
- Ensure that when a release branch is created, a full regression test of that branch passes within a 4 – 8 hrs
- Implementation of tools/processes to ensure that, when integration build breaks an existing feature, that team member is notified and the issue can be addressed immediately to Implement CI/CD Automation using Jenkins
- Working with the automation team to trouble-shoot test failures in the various test environments. This may include trouble-shooting database issues using SQL queries, reviewing web server and application server logs, etc
- Helping the team achieve goal on improving the quality and reliability of our products
- Helping in picking new tools and decide on new processes that help improve how we do QA
- Manage cross-functional internal and external team collaboration, evangelization, and communications
- Develop and optimize processes to improve software development efficiency in the consumption of security development practices
Test Engineer
Maveric Systems
Chennai
08.2007 - 08.2010
- Creation of Automated scripts using QTP
- Execution of test cases
- Reporting the test results to the stake holders
- Reporting defects & resolution
Education
Software Testing & Financial Markets
LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration)
08.2006 - 04.2008
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
JNTU (Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University)
08.2001 - 08.2005
Skills
Test Automation
Test Planning
Test Execution
ETL Testing
API Testing
Python
Selenium Webdriver
SOAPUI
Automation Framework Design
PySpark
Git
Accomplishments
- Received Extra Miler Award for Selenium \ Cucumber Automation Framework Design – JP Morgan (2015)
- Received Spot Award for Automation of Sybase IQ Data Migration – Emirates NBD (2019)
Timeline
QA Manager
Emirates NBD
08.2018 - Current
Automation Test Lead
JP Morgan Chase
08.2013 - 08.2018
Senior Automation Test Engineer
Europe Outsourcing Practice, Scimitar
07.2010 - 08.2013
Test Engineer
Maveric Systems
08.2007 - 08.2010
Software Testing & Financial Markets
LIBA (Loyola Institute of Business Administration)
08.2006 - 04.2008
B.Tech - Computer Science & Engineering
JNTU (Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University)
08.2001 - 08.2005