Ahamed Kameel
Managing Test Engineer/QA Chapter Coach at Totaljobs Group- Claim this Profile
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Rob Wilkinson
I had the pleasure of seeing and inflencing Kameel's personal development and career progresion first hand during his time at Totaljob and Stepstone. Kameel is dedicated, knowledgeable and very skillful as both a QA/tester and more recently as a people leader within this space. Always looking to improve and always finding ways to be better is athe key skills which i admired and enjoyed the most. I would highly recommend Kameel and a so pleased to have had the pleasure of working with him.
Aleksandrs Savkins
Kameel is one of the best QA engineers I ever worked with. During the backlog refinement sessions he is always making sure that all the details, including the minor ones, are mentioned in the Acceptance Criterias. Kameel is always aiming the tickets to be 100% clear and transparent, so that everyone will be able to see what should be the outcome of the ticket. His work is brilliant, he is always digging deep and paying attention to the details that developers forget about. Kameel is also passioned with the test automation scripts and doing a lot of work to gain new experience, to understand different automation tools and programming principles. All this is making him irreplaceable!
Rob Wilkinson
I had the pleasure of seeing and inflencing Kameel's personal development and career progresion first hand during his time at Totaljob and Stepstone. Kameel is dedicated, knowledgeable and very skillful as both a QA/tester and more recently as a people leader within this space. Always looking to improve and always finding ways to be better is athe key skills which i admired and enjoyed the most. I would highly recommend Kameel and a so pleased to have had the pleasure of working with him.
Aleksandrs Savkins
Kameel is one of the best QA engineers I ever worked with. During the backlog refinement sessions he is always making sure that all the details, including the minor ones, are mentioned in the Acceptance Criterias. Kameel is always aiming the tickets to be 100% clear and transparent, so that everyone will be able to see what should be the outcome of the ticket. His work is brilliant, he is always digging deep and paying attention to the details that developers forget about. Kameel is also passioned with the test automation scripts and doing a lot of work to gain new experience, to understand different automation tools and programming principles. All this is making him irreplaceable!
Rob Wilkinson
I had the pleasure of seeing and inflencing Kameel's personal development and career progresion first hand during his time at Totaljob and Stepstone. Kameel is dedicated, knowledgeable and very skillful as both a QA/tester and more recently as a people leader within this space. Always looking to improve and always finding ways to be better is athe key skills which i admired and enjoyed the most. I would highly recommend Kameel and a so pleased to have had the pleasure of working with him.
Aleksandrs Savkins
Kameel is one of the best QA engineers I ever worked with. During the backlog refinement sessions he is always making sure that all the details, including the minor ones, are mentioned in the Acceptance Criterias. Kameel is always aiming the tickets to be 100% clear and transparent, so that everyone will be able to see what should be the outcome of the ticket. His work is brilliant, he is always digging deep and paying attention to the details that developers forget about. Kameel is also passioned with the test automation scripts and doing a lot of work to gain new experience, to understand different automation tools and programming principles. All this is making him irreplaceable!
Rob Wilkinson
I had the pleasure of seeing and inflencing Kameel's personal development and career progresion first hand during his time at Totaljob and Stepstone. Kameel is dedicated, knowledgeable and very skillful as both a QA/tester and more recently as a people leader within this space. Always looking to improve and always finding ways to be better is athe key skills which i admired and enjoyed the most. I would highly recommend Kameel and a so pleased to have had the pleasure of working with him.
Aleksandrs Savkins
Kameel is one of the best QA engineers I ever worked with. During the backlog refinement sessions he is always making sure that all the details, including the minor ones, are mentioned in the Acceptance Criterias. Kameel is always aiming the tickets to be 100% clear and transparent, so that everyone will be able to see what should be the outcome of the ticket. His work is brilliant, he is always digging deep and paying attention to the details that developers forget about. Kameel is also passioned with the test automation scripts and doing a lot of work to gain new experience, to understand different automation tools and programming principles. All this is making him irreplaceable!
Credentials
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ISTQB-Software Testing Foundation
istqb.pl
Experience
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Totaljobs Group
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United Kingdom
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Online Audio and Video Media
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300 - 400 Employee
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Managing Test Engineer/QA Chapter Coach
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Sep 2018 - Present
-Managing and mentoring a group of senior software test engineers to achieve the industry best practices in fully Agile environments.-Overseeing overall quality of software products produced by 2 data teams (AWS cloud and Red shift), 2 .Net teams and 1 Java team by effectively managing the tribe's quality operations with 3-4 Senior test engineers.-Developing the quality cultures across all teams to take the final ownership of software quality for the products which they produce .-Mentoring and coaching Senior test engineers to lead the way in each teams whilst continuously looking for improvement.-Increasing the skill sets of each test engineer (both domain knowledge and technical skills like automation) by gradually introducing them to different teams and domains over a period of time.-Hand on software testing in Saleforce development team for over 4 years with manual and automation testing. -Involved in supporting major Salesforce migration and integration projects ex: The entire CRM platform from Salesforce classic to lighting. Migration of Jobsite's CRM into Stepstone's Salesforce platform Integrating Salesforce with Oracle CPQ(as a pricing tool). Migration from Oracle CPQ to Salesforce CPQ Building of completely new Global Salesforce CRM to support group's worldwide operations. Show less
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Test Analyst
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Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
-Overall responsibility of releasing quality software from two separate teams in the commercial IT tribe of the tech department.-Testing Milkround job board migration onto TJG platform-Responsible for testing & extremely successful, in house, "Lead Generation Tool" for the sales department from the scratch(Greenfield project).This tool is fully integrated with the "Saleforce" with extremely useful features for the sales teams like alerts, predictive analytics on recruiter/candidate behaviour, job postings by recruiters etc.-Testing & releasing new "Salesforce" functionality to sales teams in order to cater into new business requirements of the Totaljobs Group/Step stone(the German parent company).-Advocating the best practices for both teams(i.e, encouraging the test driver development, unit test coverage ,use of Specflow tests among developers etc.) while I myself setting up/writing smoke & regression suits using Webinject, for various environments like Integration, Production Acceptance & Pre-live.-Helping both the teams to manage their release processes(with automation test coverage across different environments) following blue-green deployment model. First and only teams in the whole company to manage releases without dev ops support.-Exposure for "Salesforce" test automation tools like "Prova" ,while manually testing the various workflows including CPQ(a pricing tool plugged to Salesforce).-Actively involved in backlog grooming ,sprint planning sessions in order to get the stories refined, and matured to play in on coming sprints by adding clear, unambiguous acceptance criteria in JIRA stories.(working very closely with the BA and rest of the stakeholders)-Contributing in retrospective sessions and identify areas for continuous improvement and emphasis on carrying on good practices to the next sprint.-Helping out the manager during the recruitment process to identify the right candidates(testers) for the various different scrum teams. Show less
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Ixxus (CCC)
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United States
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Book and Periodical Publishing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Test Analyst/Test Lead
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Mar 2015 - May 2015
Duties & Responsibilities; •Writing automation test using Selenium/Java while performing manual tests during the sprint and deploying successful builds from dev to, QA and QA to UAT environment. •Actively involve in functional testing and end to end testing(i.e, Amazon S3 bucket/Mark Logic Platform) of Software solutions developed based on Alfresco 5 CMS platform. •Team leading, frequently communicating and delegating work among rest of the QA engineers in Romania (offshore) and frequently visiting the country to oversee/brief the team. •Constantly working on Jira sprint board tickets in order to get them ready for UAT and updating test results in TestRail with relevant references in order to increase the traceability. •Attending retrospective sessions and identify improvement initiatives for next sprint and building on good practices and achievements of the last sprint •Attending pre-planning & planning sessions, to estimate the test effort for the sprint, get clarification on user acceptance criteria(s) and finalize on number of stories to be included to the sprint. •Frequently generating Jira reports to keep tracking of resource estimation and resources used in order to achieve the sprint goal on time also producing weekly QA progress reports. •Effectively communicating with fellow team members of our distributed Agile scrum team(BA-US,QA-Romania, Dev-UK ,Romania & Spain) spread across different countries, in order to promptly test and deliver testable JIRA tasks to UAT. Show less
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Win Technologies
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United Kingdom
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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QA Engineer
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Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
• Responsible for testing and releasing company's desktop based back office software/CRM called Alpha(developed using Microsoft technologies like Win forms and WPFs). • Attending Agile backlog grooming, sprint planning & retrospective sessions in addition to daily stand-ups. • Automating the regression tests using Microsoft Technologies like Coded UI(using C#) and TFS(Team Foundation Server).Also using BDDfy frame work and Fluent assertions. • As this complex CRM is interfacing with several different systems, the testing had to be performed across several interfaces like Experian, Micro Gaming Server(MGS),Casper & Google etc. • Testing Queue Processing services and message brokers like Rabbit MQ Also frequently using Microsoft SQL server 2012 to verify database records/tables. • Team building ,mentoring junior QAs and encouraging devs to follow best practices(like writing the test before doing development(TDD),writing unit tests where possible ,for ex: when fixing bugs)to make sure that the released software is of high quality. • Performing support functions for systems support teams. • Conducting employee appraisals and providing continuous assistance to improve their performances Show less
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Powa Technologies
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United Kingdom
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Technology, Information and Internet
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1 - 100 Employee
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QA Engineer
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May 2014 - Jun 2014
• Writing automation tests for both web based(tools used: Selenium/webdriver and Java) ,Android apps(tools used: Robotium /Junit ,Java,Android studio & Maven) and IOS apps(tools : x Code,J script,Python & Sublime) • Testing web services using “Postman RES Client” inorder to integrate eCommerce platforms like Magento and payment service providers like SagePay/Verifone. • Writing API tests using Groovy in Spock framework(Gradle as a wrapper) • Pushing latest automated tests to GIT repositories using Source tree. Also cloning GIT repositories using tools like Bit bucket and Source tree to get the latest builds from the developers • Deploying latest builds to target platforms and perform sanity checks manually. • Monitoring “ Bamboo Atlassian” build server for any failed tests. Fixing any failed automation tests • Creating stories in JIRA Raising defects in JIRA and liaising with developers to get them fixed. • Meeting sprint objectives and attending retro & planning meetings at the end of the sprint Show less
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Cubic Corporation
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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700 & Above Employee
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Systems Test Engineer, Junior Test Engineer(starting)
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Jan 2008 - Apr 2014
• Participating in planning, backlog grooming meetings and also daily stand-ups. • Take part in planning poker sessions in order to allocate story points for each user stories and creating them in JIRA • Prioritising and time boxing each tasks/allocating hours on white board for burn downs for the week. • Writing both manual(in QC) and automated unit tests (in ClearCase using C++)for user stories in line with TDD/BDD approach. • Testing the central system databases(running on SQL server/Oracle 11g , SQL server SSRS reports • Raising defects(ARQs) in the HP Quality(if any additional issues were found) and frequent liaising with devs. • Leading/mentoring a team of 6-10 test engineers in User Acceptance Testing(UAT). As a Junior Tester: • Initially involved in V-Model projects.Integration & End to end testing,raising defect in Quality centre • Facing customers(Southern Swedish transport Authority) and running User Acceptance Tests(UAT). • Preparing software test report (STSCR)to present at the Quality Assurance gateway meeting. Show less
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Education
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2008 - 2008
ISTQB
ISTQB Certified- Software testing foundation level, Software Testing -
2004 - 2005
London Metropolitan University
Master's, Information Systems Development -
1999 - 2003
London Metropolitan University
BSc(Hons)-External, Computing and Information Systems -
1999 - 2001
National Computer Centre(NCC),UK
International Higher Diploma in IT-NCC,UK, IT -
1999 - 2000
Australian Computer Society
Certificate in IT, Information Technology
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