Raihan Akbar Usmani

Strategic Leadership:

• Develop and implement the strategic vision for the Project Management vertical in alignment with the company's overall objectives.
• Provide leadership in project planning, execution, and delivery, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
  

Team Management:

• Lead, mentor, and inspire a high-performing team of Project Managers.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team culture, encouraging professional growth and skill development.
  

Project Oversight:

• Oversee the end-to-end project lifecycle, ensuring quality delivery, on-time completion, and within budget.
• Develop and implement project management methodologies and best practices.
  

Resource Allocation:

• Efficiently allocate resources, including personnel, budget, and technology, to optimize project outcomes.
• Evaluate and recommend tools and technologies to enhance project management processes.
  

Project Planning and Execution:

• Spearheaded the end-to-end planning, execution, and delivery of multiple projects, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and client expectations.
• Implemented and refined project management methodologies to enhance efficiency and streamline workflows.
  

Team Leadership and Development:

• Led a high-performing project team, fostering a collaborative and results-driven culture.
• Provided mentorship and guidance to team members, resulting in improved project outcomes and professional growth.
  

Client Collaboration:

• Collaborated closely with clients to understand project requirements, expectations, and feedback.
• Acted as the primary point of contact for clients, ensuring a transparent and communicative relationship throughout the project lifecycle.
  

Resource Management:

• Efficiently allocated resources, including personnel, budget, and technology, to optimize project outcomes.
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  Conducted regular assessments of resource utilization, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective measures.
  
• Proactively identified and mitigated project risks, implementing strategies to maintain project timelines and minimize disruptions.
• Instituted robust risk assessment frameworks to enhance project resilience and adaptability.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of project deliverables with broader organizational objectives.
• Facilitated effective communication and coordination between various departments for optimal project outcomes.
  

These responsibilities reflect my commitment to driving excellence in project management and contributing significantly to the overall success of Dvsum. I am proud to have played a key role in the organization's growth and look forward to bringing my expertise to future challenges.

• Review software requirement specification, user stories and translate then into define test strategy and test plan.
• Provide recommendations to developers on implementing more user-friendly feature.
• Involved in sprint plan meetings, backlog items management and grooming, daily stand-up meeting and sprint retrospective meetings.
• Conduct software testing related to smoke/sanity testing, regression testing and usability testing.
• Logged software defects and communicate test progress, test results, bugs and other relevant information to project stakeholders.
• Coordinated with product owners to manage product requirements.
• I participated in all QA related activities like documenting (developing test plans, use cases, Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Bug Reporting), Test cases review, defect/ bug discovery, Tracking and the execution of test plans, Requirements Traceability Matrix, and test Cases.
• Communication Follow-ups and coordination between teams for resolution of Quality related issues.
• Bug reporting, tracking, and feedback to developers in Assembla.
• Design, prepare, record and maintain all SQA engineering test scripts.\
• Apache J-meter for load and performance automation testing and preparing the Client deliverable Reports.
• Coordinating the process of managing, planning, scheduling and controlling a software build through different stages and environments; including testing and deploying.