Muhammad Shamail Shafi

Muhammad Shamail Shafi   Career Objective To join a dynamic and progressive organization offering ample opportunities for diversified experience, enhancement of professional skills and career growth.   Profile A dynamic and results oriented individual with more than 10 years of professional experience extensively in Software Quality Assurance, Total Quality Management (TQM), Software Testing, Requirements Management, processes Definition, Implementation and Configuration Management. A Software Quality expert with keen focus on product quality, customer satisfaction, building relationships, implementation of best practices in quality assurance, definition and analysis phases and most importantly sharing knowledge with others through coaching and mentoring. I am an avid reader of newspaper and politics. R&D, discussions and reading about politics is my passion and I am trying to follow my passion. Major Responsibilities   ·         Planning and establishment of objectives and processes for QMS. ·         Monitor and measure processes against policies and publish results. ·         Work for continuous improvement. ·         Technical leadership for the Quality Assurance & testing teams, including test approach and supervise the team of Quality Assurance Engineers. ·         Test planning and test execution. ·         To attend/participate test-cases, FS, bugs reviews and walk-through. ·         To support in conducting the requirement reviews for completeness, correctness & testability. ·         Requirements management in Test Director/VSS. ·         To develop User Acceptance Test (UAT) plan, verification of bugs and maintaining change requests (CR). ·         To create Functional Test Report (FTR), Test Execution Log (TEL), Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) and Field Validation Matrix (FVM) along with its execution. ·         Support for recruiting/hiring new resources, test tool introduction, test planning. ·         Conduct and Participate internal SQA trainings.           Professional Experience   Contour Software (Subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc.), April 2014- Present (Senior Software Quality Assurance Analyst)   Contour is a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc. which is the largest Canadian-headquartered software company. Constellation acquires, builds and manages mission-critical enterprise software solution businesses that serve niche verticals in mature markets. http://www.csisoftware.com/ .   Harris Computer Systems has been providing complete Customer and financial management solutions to the public and K-12 sectors for more than 29 years. http://harrisschoolsolutions.com/financial-solutions/ .   ·        AptaFund  http://harrisschoolsolutions.com/financial-solutions/aptafund/   AptaFund is a state-of-the-art, fully scalable, online Enterprise Resource Planning solution that empowers Human Resources, Accounting and Administrative users to efficiently oversee and complete time-sensitive tasks. It provides business management system for school districts of under 15,000 students.   Streebo Software Labs, January 2012- February 2014 (SQA Analyst) Streebo, headquartered in Houston, Texas, is an IBM Business Partner and a global provider of automated solutions. Streebo clients include some of the Fortune 500 companies. Streebo is a premier provider of Consulting and Portal Development and Services for the IBM WebSphere Portal Platform on portal side. http://www.streebo.com/ I was hired as 1st SQA resource to establish Software Quality Assurance department in Streebo Software Labs.   e-Dev Technologies , March 2009 to January 2012 (Senior SQA Engineer) e-Dev Technologies is CMMI level 2, ISO 9001 and BSI certified company. e-Dev is an established requirements technology and consulting company with its delivery centers in Canada, USA and South East Asia.  http://www.edevtech.com/ ·         MuniWare  www.muniware.com MuniWare provides municipalities across Western Canada with top quality financial and billing solutions focused exclusively on the unique demands of the municipal market. System has these modules. Role:  Senior SQA Engineer.   Pixsense Pvt Limited, Nov 2008 to March 2009 (SQA Engineer) PixSense is a company whose vision is to enable a new paradigm of social networking that is naturally integrated with the mobile lifestyle. Pixsense provides a mobile social network platform. http://www.pixsense.com/ ·         Paiker Role:  SQA Engineer. To test application on different devices of different platform, synchronization of media on different web browsers.   e-Dev Technologies, December 2006 to Nov 2008 (SQA Engineer) Worked as a Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Full Time) on the following product/projects: Agha Khan Education Service, Pakistan (www.akdn.org/agency/akes.html) This project is Education Assistance System (EAS) which manages the institution, students, repayment schedules, loan collection and whole scholarship process which helps to evaluate the student on the basis of requirement defined for any specific scholarship program. This application is build on ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL server 2005 database.   Role:  SQA Engineer. (SQA Team Lead) Performed different types of testing. Visited AKES,P office to understand change request. Assignment of task to remaining team members, communicate testing status to higher management. Deployment of application and reports on IIS using SQL Reporting Service, deployment of IdEA generated PoC using Apache TomCat. Development and maintaining of automated scripts for load testing using Load Runner. Participated in project CCB meeting and in SCAMPI CMMI Level 2 version 1.2 appraisal and presented AKES,P project as a QA Team Lead. *(reference can be provided).     Areas of Interest ·         Politics ·         Research ·         Software Engineering. Quality Assurance. Testing. Organization Trainings. Software Process Improvement. Project/Configuration Management. Academic Record ·           Bachelor of Computer Science (BSCS) Department of Computer Science, University of Karachi http://www.csku.edu.pk/   ·         High School Certificate (HSC) – Secured A grade DJ Sind Government Science College, Karachi   ·           Secondary School Certificate (SSC) – Secured A+ grade ASF Public School, Karachi http://www.asfpsc.edu.pk/   Extra Curricular Activities   International Member of ACM from 2004 to 2007. General Secretary of Management Body ACM-CSKU Chapter for year 2005/2006. Organized ACM Proquest’05, ACM Proquest’04 quiz, software, web development, gaming and Programming competition. Volunteer ACM Proquest’03 quiz, software and Programming competition. Member of Karachi University Cricket Team in Inter University Cricket Tournament 2006. Captain, Streebo Hardball Cricket team. Sports, Squash, Swimming, Football.