Dr. Umair Khalid

Strategy Execution and Program Manager @Almajdouie Motors

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Dr. Umair Khalid, The overall strategy execution at Almajdouie Motors is proceeding as planned, with all key performance indicators showing positive growth. We continue to strengthen our market position through innovative marketing initiatives and customer-centric services. Our Transformation Program is on track and within budget, contributing to the company's overall profitability. There are opportunities for further growth and expansion, which we are keen to explore. However, we also recognize potential challenges in the market, such as increasing competition and changing customer preferences, which we are addressing through targeted strategies. We remain committed to achieving our strategic objectives and sustaining our market leadership.

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Almajdouie MotorsStrategy Execution and Program Manager

Oct. 2023Dammam, Eastern, Saudi Arabia · On-site

TPS WorldwideHead of QA and Automation

Mar. 2023 - Oct. 2023Karāchi, Sindh, PakistanDeveloping and managing a team of QA and automation professionals, including setting goals, providing guidance and support, and conducting performance evaluations. Establishing and enforcing quality standards, processes, and procedures to ensure consistent product quality and customer satisfaction. Developing and implementing automation initiatives to streamline and optimize testing processes, reducing manual effort and increasing test coverage. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product development, engineering, and customer support, to ensure quality is maintained throughout the entire product lifecycle. Conducting ongoing analysis of product quality data and customer feedback to identify areas for improvement and develop action plans to address them. Staying current with industry trends and emerging technologies in QA and automation, and identifying opportunities for innovation and advancement within the organization. The ideal candidate for this role should have a strong background in software testing and quality assurance, as well as experience leading and managing teams. They should also be familiar with automation frameworks and tools, and have a proven track record of implementing successful automation initiatives. Excellent communication, collaboration, and analytical skills are also essential for this role.

TPS WorldwideHead of DevOps

Nov. 2016 - Feb. 2023Karachi · On-siteBuild and manage a team of DevOps Engineers, acting as a consultative resource for our application teams to provide technical guidance, standards, knowledge and understanding of DevOps processes, and tools to deliver our on-line learning products and services. Define DevOps best practices for our application teams and assist them in engaging these processes, for continuous improvement of application qa, and deployments. Support application teams in their use of our home-grown systems provisioning and configuration management automation tool. Participate in evaluation, PoC, selection, and implementation of a replacement tool. Ownership and support of supporting configuration management and deployment automation tools, including Selenium, Coded UI Test, Power Shell, Azure, Dockers, TFS and Sonar. Assist application teams and infrastructure teams in leveraging external and internal cloud services features such as elastic capacity auto-scaling, elastic load balancing, right-sizing, and disaster recovery strategies. Assist in implementation of security best practices and initiatives at all levels of the CI / CD processes. Assist in improving our processes for monitoring and controlling our spend rate for platforms in the external cloud. To engage as third level engineering support for incidents, engaging our application teams, our cloud services provider, and third parties as necessary for troubleshooting and problem solving. Ensure maximum uptime of cloud hosted environments, including production, staging, testing, authoring, and development environments. Keep up to date with developments in the e-Learning, technology, and DevOps fields through educational and other information resources and make our team aware of possible applications for new technologies and methods

FAST National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesVisiting Faculty

Aug. 2022 - Mar. 2023Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Karachi UniversityVisiting Faculty

Sep. 2021 - Mar. 2023Karāchi, Sindh, Pakistan

Pakistan Agile Development SocietySVP Collaboration

Sep. 2021 - Mar. 2023Pakistan

Pakistan Agile Development SocietyPresident, Karachi Chapter

Oct. 2018 - Sep. 2021Karachi

eDev TechQA Manager and Agile Coach

Apr. 2006 - Oct. 2016karachi, PakistanMajor Achievements: - Successfully handled multiple ongoing projects of different domains. - Implementation of Agile SCRUM methodology for the projects. - Handled the pressures of managing teams with challenging deadlines while boosting their morale by mentoring them and organizing project deliverables through effective management practices and personale management initiatives in order to motivate them. - By establishing a effective and efficient communication cycle with the stake holders, make sure that requirements got freeze on time, approvals are taken before implementation and clients remain synch with the developed project with periodic demos for their timely feedback. - Planning and implementation of one of the most robust and effective test automation framework in the organization - Ensuring the quality delivery of multiple large scale and complex offshore projects Responsibilities: - Managing the assignments, development, training and productivity of QA resources. - Contributing in the planning, execution, controlling and delivery of the ongoing projects in various domains with special focus on quality. - Participating in the recruitment of best resources and their right placement to build stronger teams. - Serving as a Scrum master for the ongoing projects. - Define and track project scope, milestones and deliverables. - Effectively liaise with project stakeholders on an ongoing basis. - Reporting to the top management about the progress and quality status of different products