Nabeel Ansar

Nabeel Ansar Agilist, Agile Coach ,Product Owner, Continuous Delivery, Process Owner, Software Quality Assurance Professional, Test Automation Professional Call me @ +92 - +92 - Email me @- Agility is the ability to adapt quickly to change in order to build the best possible product within the constraints of the business. I help organizations in adopting this quick delivery through agile. I have a diverse experience in Software test Automation for web and mobile, software Engineering, and product development. I can help you assemble an implementation team, and lead that team to a successful outcome. I can also asses and improve your already in place software development processes. I love to provide Agile coaching (true Agility) and can train individuals and entire departments. With my experience in Jenkins and CI, I can help in setting up delivery pipelines with branching models to ensure agility. I am also experienced in creating robust, low cast, low maintenance, easy to use test automation frameworks using open source tools. I am helpful in creating TDD frameworks using Selenium, Cucumber, Protractor, Specflow, Calabash, frank and robotium. Being a Agilist, I am experienced with Requirement elicitation, Epic classification, story creation, story break down in Scenarios, requirement scope analysis, requirement change management, requirement inspection, requirement reviews. I am experienced in writing Gherkin requirements, then automating it in to E2E. I have worked on projects which are developed on C# MVC, Java, Sencha , angular.js, node.js and also mobile applications on Obj. C and Swift. Being a Speaker, my topic range from Agile culture and process, to test automation and specifications. I have worked with both startups and enterprise, and can train both small teams and entire departments if required Agile Skills: Experienced in Rapid Prototyping and Product sketching Experienced in Data analytics tools like mix panel , segment Experienced in Agile approaches like Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, BDD and FDD Experienced in widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, User story mapping, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing, Automated Testing, planning poker and retros. Experienced in change management Experienced in Facilitation Techniques for both distributed and in-house teams Experienced in Lean approaches like Lean Start-up, Kanban, KaiZen Experienced in Problem solving and Analysis techniques Experienced in resource allocation conflicts and making best of it Experienced in Agile Testing Experienced in Agile Road mapping and Requirements Experienced in agile tools, like Jira, TFS Experienced in Jenkins and e2e Frameworks for Mobile and Web automation Nabeel Ansar Agilist, Agile Coach ,Product Owner, Continuous Delivery, Process Owner, Software Quality Assurance Professional, Test Automation Professional Call me @ +92 - +92 - Email me @- Professional Certifications And trainings: Speaker and Member- Pakistan Agile Development Society Member – Project Management Institute CAST - Certified Associate in Software Testing Scrum Master Accredited Certification Scrum Product Owner Accredited Certification Automated Web Testing using Selenium AWS Technical Professional AWS Business Professional Professional Awards and Achievements: Best Emerging Player Award 2013 at Seven Software Development Ltd. Exceptional Performance Award 2014 at Seven Software Development Ltd. Successfully implemented Scrum in organization of 80+ people Successfully implemented Kanban in organization of 80+ people Implemented Scrum in organization of 25 people As a Speaker spoken on: Interviewed by Oikosofy on agile transformation Conducted Workshop on Who to be agile in Engineering at Bahira Univerisy IBD Keynote Speaker on Agile Transformation at Pakistan Agile Development society , ACP”16 Introduction to TDD and CI at National University of Computer and Emerging Science , IBD Introduction to Agile at international Islamic University, IBD Introduction to Continuous Integration at Vizteck Solutions Branching and Agility at Vizteck Solutions BDD Gherkin, cucumber and test automation at NUML, IBD Nabeel Ansar Agilist, Agile Coach ,Product Owner, Continuous Delivery, Process Owner, Software Quality Assurance Professional, Test Automation Professional Call me @ +92 - +92 - Email me @- Professional Experience Agile Coach March, 2016 – Present Vizteck Solutions http://vizteck.com/ Responsibilities : • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Product Specialist for on-demand applications development Meet with clients to discuss need specifications, budgets, and timelines Prototype and sketch ideas with clients on UX and business requirements Present business flow with help of UML diagrams Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business ROI Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle. Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools. Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path. Build and develop business relationships for the success of the project. Set and continually manage project expectations with all stakeholders. Identify and resolve issues within the teams. Develop best processes and tools for project execution and management. Oversee team members and monitor progress by follow-up, progress and status reports; Take charge and ensure proactive risk management of project-related issues; Respond to change request and manage the expectations of clients Guide the team in adopting the fundamentals of iterative and incremental delivery Remove impediments and blockers that are obstacles to the teams’ progress Lead the team to self-organization, cross-functionality and a mature Agile adoption Capture and use Agile metrics and retrospective actions with an eye on assessing Agile maturity and process and practice improvement Guide and contribute to the development of LEAN project deliverables Promote and grow a sense of team purpose Make sure continuous improvement is happening Define processes on JIRA and TFS to be used effectively keeping in mind Agile values. Making sure most suitable Continuous Integration, Deployment, and Testing approaches are followed Make sure Jenkins implementation is done to have agile deliveries of project Involved in resource hiring and performance appraisals Nabeel Ansar Agilist, Agile Coach ,Product Owner, Continuous Delivery, Process Owner, Software Quality Assurance Professional, Test Automation Professional Call me @ +92 - +92 - Email me @- Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer - Team Lead July, 2013 – Dec,2015 Seven Software Development Pvt limited, Islamabad, PAK http:// www.seventechnology.co.uk Responsibilities : • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Experienced in Selenium, Specflow, mobile Automation, Web Automation, BDD, and TDD. Worked as a Process Owner helped in setting up Agile Processes and Practices Experienced in working in Agile process Train new employees to familiarize them with company processes and tools Monitor and implement improvements to the QA process Established company-wide approach to testing, test infrastructure, test toolset, and QA processes and standards. Create or review test documents/work products such as the test strategy, test plan, test cases, test results and test report. Plan, monitor and control the overall testing activities and represent quality-related matters in all ongoing projects. Provide test estimates for all incoming work requests and projects. Consolidate and report test metrics and status information for the ongoing/completed operations/projects. Collaborate closely with the development leads as well as system architects. Define the strategy and level of testing required for each project and decide on how to customize the QA activities within the context of existing processes. Initiate, oversee and control the planning, specification, implementation, and execution of test activities. Identify testing needs, manage testing resource allocation, acquire test resources, plan and acquire training for testers. Establish test automation through the selection and development of appropriate test automation tools and framework. Monitor test progress and report test results. Ensure all requirements are fulfilled as part of project implementation (requirement traceability). Adapt planning based on test results and progress, and take appropriate actions to manage issues. Participate in release readiness decisions with managers. Monitor team adherence to established testing standards, processes and best practices. Mentor members of QAs on an ongoing basis. Participate in and provide performance assessment of QA members as part of annual performance reviews. Nabeel Ansar Agilist, Agile Coach ,Product Owner, Continuous Delivery, Process Owner, Software Quality Assurance Professional, Test Automation Professional Call me @ +92 - +92 - Email me @- Scrum Master May, 2014 – March .2015 Seven Software Development Pvt limited, Islamabad, PAK http:// www.seventechnology.co.uk Responsibilities • • • • • • • • • • • Facilitate Scrum meetings including sprint planning, retrospectives and daily stand-ups Ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise. Collaborated with team for identifying concise and specific epics and stories. Doing everything possible to ensure delighting customers Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum practices and values to delight customers Guiding the team on how to get the most of out self organization Guiding the team on self organizing to fill in the intentional gaps left in the Agile/Scrum frameworks Removing impediments or guiding the team to remove impediments by finding the right personnel to remove the impediment. Building a trusting and safe environment where problems can be raised without fear of blame, retribution, or being judged, with an emphasis of healing and problem solving. Facilitating getting the work done without coercion, assigning, or dictating the work. Facilitating discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution Supporting and educating the Product Owner, especially with respect to grooming and maintaining the product backlog. Software Quality Assurance Engineer June, 2013 – July 10 .2013 TECNEX Systems LLC,Rawalpindi, PAK https://www.tecnex.net Responsibilities • • • • • • • Review documentation(scenario) to ensure that requirements stated are correct, unambiguous, and verifiable. Review the Lo-Fi and Hi-Fi Sitemaps Prepare test cases Managing (backup/restore) different databases Maintain quality of all the services and conduct research for improvement Test eTeClininc Business Modules (HR, Finance, and Inventory) Partci[ate in daily standing meetings regularly Nabeel Ansar Agilist, Agile Coach ,Product Owner, Continuous Delivery, Process Owner, Software Quality Assurance Professional, Test Automation Professional Call me @ +92 - +92 - Email me @- Education BS (CS) – Computer Sciences FAST- National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences 2013