Abuzer Mehdi

• Completed assignments ahead of deadline.
• Adhered to industry practices, company standards and safety protocols in work.
• Assisted in level-loading project capacity and made proactive decisions around process improvements to development cycle.
• Coordinated daily activity and flow of projects through multiple departments to verify on-time product delivery.
• Modeled management and organizational skills and multi-tasked and prioritized in deadline-driven environment.
• Tracked project and team member performance closely to quickly intervene in mistakes or delays.
• Monitored project progress, identified risks and took corrective action as needed.
• Reported regularly to managers on project budget, progress and technical problems.
• Scheduled and facilitated meetings between project stakeholders to discuss deliverables, schedules and conflicts.
• Analyzed project performance data to identify areas of improvement.
• Verified quality of deliverables and conformance to specifications before submitting to clients.
• Lead technical meetings with third party development teams i.e BazaarVoice - Walmart - Target - Tommy UK - Adidas UK

• Worked in Agile environment, collaborated with Scrum team members to deliver new apps features on time and with high quality.
• Participated in all phases of test execution and documentation.
• Conducted testing on multiple software versions and supported platforms. Worked closely with developers during test execution to ensure proper communication of defects.
• Developed test plans and documented detailed test cases to cover all levels of testing and requirements including Functional, Integration, Regression and system.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop and implement process and system improvements.
• Performed root cause analysis to identify and resolve quality issues and defects.
• Scheduled and chaired quality review meetings to review effectiveness of performance mitigating risk, improving throughput and achieving customer satisfaction.

Projects:
Sun Communities | SunAppSys | RMS Cloud| Yardi Voyager

• Leading and developing full scale project plans and executions
• Responsible for more than one cross-company project at a time
• Defining the project scope of work, financial plan, its goals and delivery
• Managed all aspects of the project business plan and budget
• Managing the operational, financial and technological aspects of projects based on time-lines and work plans

Key Activities:

• Identified resources required, assigned responsibilities and coordinated project staff directly and indirectly to ensure successful completion of the project
• Tracked project deliveries using project management tools
• Designed project documents to monitor project performance and ease of data retrieval
• Reported on project progress and communicated relevant information to superiors
• Tracked and resolved critical issues to minimize project risk factors
• Prepared the QA procedure of the project

Project Staff/Clients:

• Directed, supervised, supported and coordinated the project staff
• Communicating extensively with clients, sub-contractors and vendors to establish cordial/effective working relationship
• Following up with clients to verify satisfaction.

• Responsible for carrying out all administrative QA projects for the team
• Delegate tasks to other QA team members as needed
• Responsible for training QA team members in QA best procedures and methodologies
• Keep track of all QA member efforts, spot check work when/where needed, and improve team capabilities through constructive criticism
• Communicate with management, product, and engineers regarding QA team efforts, blockers, and needed resource
• Communicate environmental needs to top management
• Request new server/database instances for testing environments and provide requirements for said environmental setups as needed
• Perform sprint testing, fully integrated as well as segregated validations and regressions that can involve full integration of other team's code with my team's code
• Design and document best QA practices distribute this information to team members
• Perform new employee interviews, decide on hiring, perform QA member reviews, and provide onboarding information
• Communicate with Product Manager regarding Acceptance Criteria for new work
• Provide engineers with required information regarding highest quality desired changes for stories, defects, and enhancements
• Make changes as necessary to backlog items and sprint stories (with go-ahead of Product and Scrum Master)
• Communicate directly with US team for status updates and sprint planning.

Projects:

Academic Approach https://www.academicapproach.com/

• Performed manual testing for each build and release, wrote daily test plans with MS Excel, and logged an average of four bugs per day in Testrail
• Validated application functionality on Android and iOS platforms
• Performed exploratory testing of web and mobile versions of the application
• Undertook regression testing for the new test-releases
• Wrote technical documentation including test plans, test cases, test suites, and test matrices
• Conducted application compatibility testing using different mobile devices
• Wrote easy-to-reproduce bug reports and monitored their resolution status
• Executed SQL queries to make sure correct data went into DB and retrieved correctly
• Participated in team meetings discussing bugs fixed, new builds, and new assignments

• Partner with some of the most well-known technology companies in USA and
• UK to design and execute social media strategies that meet client objectives
• Creating, updating and maintaining parts of the Clients websites, blogs and forums
• Implementation of Google Analytics on websites and SM projects
• SEO, SEM and Webmaster Tools (Google)
• Creation and maintenance of accounts on social media sites (Twitter,
• Facebook, Reddit, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn and others) and content websites
• Creation and maintenance of YouTube channels, creating videos
• Including product presentation videos
• Finding new online ways and contacts to promote the products (US/RO/DE/
• WW) - Supporting all marketing activities with Social Media tactics - Partnerships with different websites to promote the products - Team Lead for StoryPress campaign at Kickstarter.com - Supporting on-line response in critical situations - Developing and implementing viral campaigns - Conducting Online Marketing research studies