Mirza Mubashar Baig

Mirza Mubashar Baig Postal Address: E-266, Block-B, Street # 3, Nishat Colony Lahore Cantt, Punjab, Pakistan Phone:- Email:- Seeking a challenging position in the area of Project Management in a growing organization, where my skills and my education background can add value to the growth of the organization and allow development of my skills to organization potential in the field of QA and Project Management. Work Experience: Project Manager / Scrum Master / Engineering Lead at edX Mobile edX - Arbisoft (www.arbisoft.com) July 2014 – to date Responsibilities :                  Guiding and coaching the team and organization to follow Agile/Scrum practices and eventually become self – organized. Helping the team assess their ‘Scrum Maturity’ and agile fluency. Responsible for supporting and coaching the Product Managers / Engineering Managers / Team Members on Agile/Scrum practice. Facilitating getting the work done in a servant leader role. Assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency, and radiating information Collaborating with Product Management and Engineering Leadership and groom and maintain the product backlog. Educating team and conduct scrum ceremonies thoroughly like Daily Standup, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, Retrospectives, Demos etc. Executing effective sprint planning meetings. Ensuring top items are well groomed before they are taken into sprint backlog. Ensuring all team members actively participate in planning meeting demonstrating key behaviors (Truth, Transparency, Trust and Commitment). Also ensuring team members are instilled with confidence to fully participate, be easy with creating and dealing with positive conflict. Set increasingly challenging goals for the team in the spirit of continuous improvement. So team’s overall performance to be better as each sprint passes. Identifying and removing impediments. Take stance in front of management as well as the team to do the “right thing” rather than the “easy thing”. Escalate issues to the highest level if needed. Also act as a bridge b/w the team and the management to ensure there is no communication lag. Ensuring sprint starts and stops at the fixed time. Pushing stakeholders (PO and Team) to ensure sprint timings and outcomes. Ensuring sprint goals are achieved. Motivating team towards that goal. Facilitating and recording sprint retrospective meetings and ensuring that identified issues are resolved in prioritized manner. Ensuring daily stand-ups happen daily at given time and under 15 minutes. Keeping an eye on the team Burndown charts. Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer edX - Arbisoft (www.arbisoft.com)            Generating Test Cases from the requirement documents. Black box testing. Functional & Non-Functional testing. UI testing Regression Testing Accessibility Testing Mobile Analytics Events Verification (Segment, Firebase) User-Acceptance Testing with Clients. Database Testing. Ensuring the team follows QA process strictly Proper logging and escalation of bugs using JIRA. Software Quality Assurance Engineer Allied Bank Head Office Lahore (www.abl.com) February 2013- June 2014          Working closely with the software development teams of Retail, Credit, Trade and Interface of T24 banking solution. Then developing thorough test plan to define scope, approach, strategy and risks of testing and to identify test scenarios & write test cases covering scope of testing. Testing of Customer Modules, Accounts Modules, Treasury Modules, Trade Finance Modules, Credit Modules, Reporting Modules. Verification and Validation of various updates / Patches of T24. T24 – Data Migration Testing of more than 100 Migrated Branches (All the modules like Core/Retails, Treasury, Trade Finance, Credit, Finance/ GL Reporting). Performance testing of Remittance application (RIA Financials) of Allied Bank Limited by using Load Runner. Review, to the extent possible, changes in system to analyse the impact of changes in system performance. User experience of LINUX/UNIX environments. Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g. UNIX shell, Bash Shell). Solid understanding of Object Oriented development practices using C#.NET MVC. Good understanding of web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript. Professional Projects:  edX(www.edx.org) edX is a massive online course provider founded by MIT and Harvard.  McKinsey&Company | McKinsey Academy(www.mckinseyacademy.com) Its an American worldwide management consultnig firm.  Temenos - T24 Core Banking Software Is the core banking solution provider for more than 700 leading banks and financial institiutions. Professional Certifications, Trainings & Engagements    ISTQB Foundation Level, Advanced Level. Active member of IEEE. Attended seminars and trainings of IEEE. Attended Corvit workshop voice over IP & WiMAX. Skills / Expertise:        Strategic Planning Agile Project Management Agile Product Management Team Management Client Communication & Relations Coaching & Mentoring Conflict Management & Resolution Education:  BSCS- HONORS (Bachelors in Computer Sciences) Government College University , Lahore (3.20 CGPA) 2008 – 2012 Academic Projects:          Student Management System: C++ (programming fundamental) Math’s Library: OOP (Object Oriented Programming) Assembler/Disassembler: Assembly Language Deawoo Reservation System: SE (Software Engineering) DES Encryption/Decryption: Analysis of Algorithem Badoo Automation: Visual Programming Sargodha college website: Web Project PLSQL: PPL (Principles of programming languages) Final Year Project: OHMS (Online Hotel Management System) Languages:    English Urdu French (Excellent) (Excellent) (Basic) Interests: Running, Swimming, Cricket and Guitar playing. References: Can be provided on request.