Jaffar Zahid Lone

Contact Information:

Address: 607 Nizam Block, Allama Iqbal Town, Lahore, Pakistan. Home Phone: 042-
37843752, Cell Phone: +92-334-4226143, +92-300-4846791 Email: jaffar.lone@gmail.com

Summary:

Over Five years of experience in IT analysis and testing of business solutions for various
business organizations. Four years of Quality assurance/coordination experience, Strong
skills in team management and project management.

Education:

• 2001- BS (Computer Science), FAST-NUCES, Lahore, Pakistan.

• 2007 - SQA and Communication skills training (Certified by PITB, Pakistan).
• 2010 - PMP (Completed Training from Oranet, Pakistan).

Technical Skills:

Languages/Tools: SQL, DB Visualizer.

Testing tools: Mercury Test Director, JIRA.
RDBMS: MS SQL Server and MS Access.
O/S: MS-DOS and Windows NT, Windows XP/98/95/2000/Vista.
Hardware: HP 9000, IBM PC Pentium, Dell desktop PC.

Experience

Client: Invocode
Team Size: 1
Duration: February 2011 till present
Role: Quality Assurance/Testing provider

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Working as a QA/test Engineer, compiling test cases, test scenarios of mobile
application designed for blackberry and android phones.

Client: odesk
Team Size: 1
Duration: November 2010 till present
Role: Quality Assurance/Testing provider, Project planner

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Working as a project support officer for an Indian client, making project plans and
keeping it updated with the ongoing work.
• Working as a QA/tester for an Israeli client, providing them feedback on their existing
system, reporting the bugs in their defect tracking system and also providing
suggestions/improvements.

Client: Elance
Team Size: 1
Duration: April 2010 till Present
Role: Freelance Quality Assurance/Testing provider

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Completed web research project for an Australian client, doing research on critical
path methods and old cars restoration.
• Ongoing project for technology consultant, working on CRM for customization as per
client requirements.

Client: Kualitatem (private) limited

Team size: 6
Duration: February 2010 till May 2010
Role: Quality Assurance Manager

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Supervising the QA process, incorporating process changes, also supervising the
documentation process regarding test planning, test cases and project estimates.
• Actively involved in client communication, handling tight deadlines with effective and
efficient completion of committed deliverables.
• Organizer of the QA team in terms of daily task assignment, status reports.

Client: Innovative (private) limited

Team size: 3
Duration: August 2007 till February 2010
Role: Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer (SQA)

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for running the existing test cases for the my card place (MCP) module
and updating the existing Functional Specifications (FS)
• Recording the test case results in Mercury’s Test Director.
• Running daily test cases on cardholder website as well as cardAdmin website of
MCP.
• Updating the team lead and project manager of the latest changes in the test case
documentation.
• Testing of Report Module, including the existing reports, java based ETLs.
• coordinating the effort between developers and QA for analysis of reports and making
them more effective.
• Conducting interviews of candidates as selected by Human Resource department.

Client: Simply wireless, VA, USA

Team size: 10
Duration: November 2005 till February 2006
Role: Assistant Project Manager/project coordinator

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for co-ordination between the team members, the project manager
regarding the overall documentation control and change management of the website
www.simplywireless.com .
• Responsible for assisting the project manager in maintaining a track of the list of sub
projects as assigned by the client and also to keep track of the changes required in
the implementation of each of those sub projects.
• To assist the Project manager in ensuring that the project deliverables are fulfilled in
 accordance with the assignment specification and customer project contract.

Client: Abacus consulting, Lahore, Pakistan

Team size: 10
Duration: July 2004 – March 2005
Role: Quality Assurance Incharge / Assistant Project manager

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the data analysis/report generation regarding the project of motor
insurance. This project was given to Abacus Consulting by Consumer Intel
(www.consumerintel.com) a British company, which specializes in consumer-based
data analysis.
• Responsible for report generation and statistical analysis for the project using MS
Excel. MS SQL Server was used as backend database. My duties also included
report generation using Crystal reports with MS SQL Server.
• Responsible for conducting interviews and also to give an active opinion in the
management decisions.
• Responsible for everyday management decisions regarding change in requirements
from the client and/or expansion in the team as per the project needs.
• Responsible for carrying out meetings/presentations between the project manager
and the other designations of the IT department regarding the project status, the
tasks still under progress and the achievements as per statistics.

Client: Cranium Soft (Private) limited

Team Size: 4
Duration: October 2003 – April 2004
Role : Junior Software Engineer

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ongoing project work on pharma, inventory and cotton

systems.
• Responsible for Database handling, form design and stored procedures.

Client: Nishat Textile Mills Limited

Team size: 5
Duration: June 2002 – January 2003
Role: Programmer

Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for working on the Oracle system developed for supporting the
yarn, cotton and inventory system of Nishat Mills Limited (NML).
• Worked in depth with the stakeholders in order to customize the existing
systems as per their needs, also adding new reports to the system.

Curemd Practice Management System (PMS)

Client: Curemd, Lahore, Pakistan.
Team size: 6
Duration: November 2001 - June 2002
Role: SQA Engineer

Tasks / Responsibilities

• Responsible for developing test cases, also to maintain track of the test cases with
respect to the changes as requested for each sub-module of the project
(www.curemd.com).
• Responsible for stress test and to maintain the track of the results/statistics as
deduced from the reports
• Managed other testers, and the tasks they performed on a daily basis. Also to make
sure of the effective management I devised reports so that the test engineers were
able to co-ordinate their routine tasks.
• Used MS Project for tracking of tasks and viewing daily work status.
• Used buggit to tracking software defects for the website (www.curemd.com)