Sanan Ahmad, 4+Yrs Exp
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(PMP, ACP, MSSE)
Lahore, Pakistan
linkedin.com/in/sanan-ahmad-pmp®-acp®-
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Azure DevOps
Jira
PowerShell Scripting
Escalations Managment
Visual Studio
Trello
Risk Management
Team Retro
Azure AD
Elasticsearch
XP
Miro
Stakeholder Analysis
Kanban
Active Directory
Agile
Hyper-V
REST API
MS Word
MS Excel
SQL
SCRUM
Python
Eclipse
Cypress
Pandas
MS Exchange
Mocha
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
SQA Engineer
Netwrix Corporation (Acquired Imanami in Nov 2022)
05/2021 - Present,
Lahore, Pakistan
Responsibilities
Lead the team of 6 members to stabilize different data sources of synchronize module such as Azure AD, Active
Directory, Excel, Access, Oracle, SQL, SCIM, ODBC, GLDAP, and CSV.
Established realistic tasks and goals for the feature requests/escalations and understood the requirements
provided by the reputed clients such as Goldman Sachs, Warner Bros., and ST microelectronics.
Prepared release documents, UAT documents, and dashboards on Azure DevOps to present the over-all progress
of synchronize module to the engineering team in daily standups and weekly meetings.
Co-ordinated with product development and design teams to generate wireframes, and User Interfaces (UI) on
Figma to fulfil stakeholder needs.
Scheduled and facilitated the retrospective sessions for the synchronize team on Team Retro in order to improve
processes for upcoming sprints.
Facilitated and collaborated with the technical writers to document the behavior of new features or accommodate
any functional change in existing features.
Prepared virtual environments with windows server 2016/2019 OS for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on
windows Hyper-V.
Software Quality Assurance Officer
MCB Islamic Bank Ltd.
12/2020 - 04/2021,
Lahore, Pakistan
Responsibilities
Prepared the test case document by creating test cases against the Functional Specification Document (FSD).
Maintaining System Incident Reports (SIRs) and Change Requests (CRs) for multiple projects for audit purpose.
Performed data validation and ensured data correctness of several reports using SQL.
RELEVANT PRODUCT(S) & CONTRIBUTION(S)
GroupID - Synchronize
Suggested and priotrized the development of python global scripting editor (as an alternative to VB) which helped the company
to gain 7 new clients and several POC’s are still in progress.
Proposed the logging of synchronize job configuration changes rather than logging the results of job/collection only. 12+ existing
clients switched to the latest GroupID version because of this feature.
Initiated the development process of synchronize job workflow feature rather than relying on job permissions only.
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CERTIFICATIONS
Agile Certified Practitioner (ACP) by PMI
(09/2024)
Project Management Professional (PMP) by PMI
(08/2024)
Agile with Atlassian Jira by Coursera (01/2021)
Intermediate Python by DataCamp (02/2022)
Data Analyst with SQL Server by DataCamp
(03/2022)
Data Manipulation with Pandas by DataCamp
(03/2022)
PUBLICATIONS
Journal
MS Thesis
Trust-Based Optimized Reporting for
Detection and Prevention of Black Hole
Attacks in Low-Power and Lossy Green IoT
Networks
A Novel Encryption Scheme based on a keydependent Substitution box (S-box).
Author(s)
July 2024
Khan, M.A.; Rais, R.N.B.; Khalid, O.; Ahmad, S.
Link: Public link of thesis on UMT Learning Resource
Centre (LRC)
March 2024
Author(s)
Sanan Ahmad
MDPI
This research is funded by Deanship of Research and
Graduate Studies (DRG), Ajman University, UAE,
under grant ID 2023-IRG-ENIT-19. Link: Public link of
MDPI-sensor's journal
EDUCATION
Master of Science in Software Engineering
University of Management & Technology (UMT)
09/2022 - 07/2024,
Lahore, Pakistan
Courses
Software Project Management
Advanced Requirements Engineering
Advanced Software Architecture
Software Quality Assurance & Testing
Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering
COMSATS University
09/2016 - 10/2020,
Lahore, Pakistan
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