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Suhail Aga

Suhail Aga

Brussels

Summary

An Eye for Quality, Efficiency together with a Rich, Versatile Experience, I have the Willingness to walk an Extra Mile to achieve Excellence. To Spearhead Test Management, Agile Coaching and Scrum Master Roles to new heights of success while driving Continuous Improvements within the Delivery Model.

  • 11 Years work experience in Belgium as a Test Manager.
  • 5 Years work experience in Agile Coaching, Transitions.
  • 4 Years work experience as a ScrumMaster.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Agile Coach and Test Manager

Euro Clear
01.2023 - Current


  • EuroClear is a leading Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI), that offers expert transaction settlement, asset servicing and collateral management, as well as a wide range of services for issuers. Assets includes bonds, equities, funds and derivatives
  • As a Test Manager for EasyWay application for EuroClear, I am responsible for the Test Planning, Test Strategy Preparation, Test Reporting, Tooling Setup, Cost Control, Continuous Monitoring and Identifying and Application of continuous Improvements.
  • As an Agile Coach for the Cross-Tribe setup, I am responsible to assist Individuals, Teams, and Tribe organizations in better Understanding, Adopting, and Adhering to Agile practices and principles.
  • Team Size : 50 members (20 Onsite, 30 offshore)

Program Test Manager, Scrum Master

Colruyt Belgium
01.2020 - 12.2022


  • Colruyt Group is a Belgian Retail corporation that is managing the Colruyt supermarkets and other subsidiaries such as OKay, Bio-Planet, DATS 24, DreamLand, DreamBaby, and more.
  • As a Program Test Manager at Colruyt Group, I was responsible for the successful delivery of the New Pricing Platform that ensures the best price Guarantee for the customers of Colruyt Group.
  • Responsible for setting up the Test Strategy and Defect Management Process for All phases of Testing including Regression, Automation, End to End, Performance, User Acceptance Tests for all the Project in the Pricing Chain.
  • Responsible for Test Planning for each Release, Continuous Inputs to the 3 year Roadmap, Team Coaching, Cost Control, Alignment with all Project Managers and identification and application of Continuous Improvements.
  • As a Scrum Master, I was responsible to facilitate Scrum to the larger team by ensuring the Scrum framework is followed. Was committed to the scrum methodology, Agile principles, and best practices and also remain flexible and open to opportunities for the team to improve their workflow.
  • Team Size : 45 members (15 onsite, 30 offshore)

Program Test Manager, Scrum Master

Allianz Benelux
06.2015 - 12.2020
  • Allianz is a German multinational financial services company with core businesses in Insurance and Asset management. Allianz is one of the world's largest insurers and financial services groups. It is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.
  • Was responsible Program Test Manager for the Benelux One Program with a 5 years road map that was responsible from the Digital Transformation from Legacy to ABS platform for Non-Life Insurance Policies across Benelux.
  • As a Single Point of Contact for the Testing COE, was responsible for Test Strategy, Test Planning, Continuous Monitoring, Cost Control, Offshore Supplier Management and Continuous Improvements of All phases of Testing within the Program.
  • As a Scrum Master in a developing Agile setup I was responsible for base lining the Agile Principles together with the Agile Coach. I was responsible to ensure that the Culture Change within the Teams has a smooth transition while clearing our the impediments the team faced on its way to complete the Agile Transition successfully.
  • Team Size : 70 members (20 Onsite, 50 offshore)

Program Test Manager

Telenet Belgium
07.2012 - 05.2015
  • Telenet Group N.V. is the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium. Its business comprises the provision of Analog and digital cable television, fixed and mobile telephone services, to Residential and Businesses all across Belgium and in Luxembourg.
  • As a Single Point of Contact for the Transition of Testing as a Service from Incumbent supplier I was responsible to ensure the Testing Team is Setup, Acquires Knowledge, Performs necessary Shadowing with active teams and enters Steady State within an challenging timeline of 3 months.
  • As a Program Test Manager, I was responsible for the Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test Reporting, Tooling, Cost Control, Continuous Monitoring and Continuous Improvements of all the Releases in the Road Map.
  • Key Projects include, Transition of Prepaid Billing platform with scope of 22k test cases to be executed in about 4 months. Also, One Day Mobile Number Porting with regulatory compliance delivered withing 1 month and many more.
  • Team Size : 35 members (10 Onsite, 25 offshore)

Test Lead

KPN Netherlands
05.2012 - 07.2012


  • For the KPN NL ZSmart Project was responsible for Test Management, Co-ordination and Execution for ZTE POC Work Stack for KPN Netherlands.
  • Working together with the stakeholders from all involved business units to finalize a Test Approach.
  • Responsible for managing and coordination of the full testing life cycle of an IT Release (multiple projects across applications, platforms) within planned timelines and budget.
  • E2E Responsibility of Order Management, Billing, Assurance and KPI Monitoring Module.

Test Lead

Liberty Global Partners (Unity Media)
02.2011 - 04.2012


UPC & Unity media started a large program to integrate UPC Derby platform into Unity Media IT landscape. as this was an enabler to give business continuity and meet new market and technology requirements.


As a Test Lead at a Client facing position I was involved in:

  • E2E Functional Testing, Defect identification and Test Reporting to relevant stakeholders.
  • Knowledge sharing session with team members and building up a very strong customer support and communication structure.
  • UAT Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test Preparation and Acceptance criteria for OSS Consolidation of UPC, NL and Unity Media, Germany.

Senior Test Analyst

Go Telecommunications
03.2010 - 02.2011

GO Telecommunication OSS/BSS testing an IT Quality Analysis Project for Atheeb Telecommunications, Riyadh, KSA. This involved Test Planning and execution i.e. E2E System Integration / Functional / Regression Testing for Java based web portals, Oracle 10g based database system, BMC Remedy, ERP, UIM and BRM Billing system.

As a Senior Test Analyst I was involved in:

  • Test Planning and Test Case preparation for Java based web portals, Oracle 10g based database system, BMC Remedy, ERP, UIM and BRM Billing system.
  • Component Testing and System Integration Testing.
  • E2E Functional/Regression Testing on System Integrated Test (SIT) Environment and UAT(User Acceptance Testing) Environment.
  • Test Case Execution and Automation.
  • Defect Logging and Verification on defect tracking tool JIRA and QC.

Developer and Test Analyst

British Telecommunications
01.2007 - 02.2010


Indirect Channels (IC) is that arm of BT which manages sale of BT Products by third-parties. These include Partners, Distributors and Resellers.BT has identified and authorized Partners to promote and sell BT Products. In turn, BT pays them commissions for the business generated by them for BT.

As a Developer and Test Analyst I was involved in:

  • E2E Functional/Regression Testing of Dot Net Web portals and Oracle Database on System Integrated Environment.
  • E2E Defect Identification and verification.
  • Test Planning and Test Case preparation for all System Integration, Regression and Functional Tests for Dot Net based Web Portals and Oracle 10g based database systems.
  • Preparation of Automation Test Scripts and execution.
  • Defect Logging and Verification on defect tracking tool HP QC 10.0.
  • Development and Testing of Dot Net Windows and Web based work packages and Oracle Packages and procedures.
  • Requirement gathering, writing the User Stories,Test Use Cases, Preparation of High Level Design document and Low Level Design document.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics And Telecom

Goa University
Goa, India.
07.2006

Skills

  • Test Management
  • Agile Coaching
  • Scrum Master
  • Jira
  • MS Azure Cloud
  • Confluence
  • HP ALM
  • Selenium
  • Cucumber
  • GitLab, GitHub
  • REST API
  • SaaS, PaaS
  • Finance
  • Telecom
  • Insurance
  • Retail
  • Databases : Oracle, PL/SQL, DB2
  • Programming Languages : Java, JavaScript, Dot Net, C#, C, VBNet, ASP, Embedded C, C, Unix

Languages

English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Dutch
Upper intermediate (B2)
French
Beginner (A1)

Nationality

Belgian

Certification

  • ISTQB Certified.
  • CSM Certified.
  • Agile Project Leadership : PMI Certified
  • Agile Project Management using Jira : PMI Certified
  • Scrum Master Certified by PMI.
  • Oracle Certified Associate on Oracle 10g.

Key Project Details

  • Euro Clear : Easy Way I.T. Server Upgrade and MQ migration from Windows to Linux.
  • Colruyt Group Retail Pricing : SCP 4.0 Pricing Platform
  • Allianz Insurance I.T. Transformation : Belenux One Migration from Legacy to ABS Platform.
  • Telenet (Formerly BASE Company) : 1 Day Mobile Number Porting, Replcaement of the Prepaid Billing Platform.

Trainings

Agile Silver Workshop: Allianz internal training, Duration:2 Days Customer Centricity: Allianz internal training, Duration:1 Day ISTQB: Tech Mahindra Limited internal training, Duration:2 Days Data and Digitalization Bronze Training: Allianz internal training, Duration:2 Days Oracle Certified Associate for Oracle 10g: Oracle Corporation ASP Dot Net: Tech Mahindra Limited internal training, Duration:5 Days Agile Overview: Tech Mahindra Limited internal training, Duration: 1 Day Real Time Embedded System: Cranes Software International Limited, Duration:6 months C: Tech Mahindra Limited internal training, Duration: 6 days Unix: Tech Mahindra Limited internal training, Duration: 10 days JAVA: Tech Mahindra Limited internal training, Duration: 16 days SQL: Tech Mahindra Limited internal training, Duration: 6 days PL/SQL Oracle 8i: Tech Mahindra Limited internal training, Duration: 9 days VV&T: Tech Mahindra Limited internal training, Duration: 3 days

Timeline

Agile Coach and Test Manager

Euro Clear
01.2023 - Current

Program Test Manager, Scrum Master

Colruyt Belgium
01.2020 - 12.2022

Program Test Manager, Scrum Master

Allianz Benelux
06.2015 - 12.2020

Program Test Manager

Telenet Belgium
07.2012 - 05.2015

Test Lead

KPN Netherlands
05.2012 - 07.2012

Test Lead

Liberty Global Partners (Unity Media)
02.2011 - 04.2012

Senior Test Analyst

Go Telecommunications
03.2010 - 02.2011

Developer and Test Analyst

British Telecommunications
01.2007 - 02.2010

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics And Telecom

Goa University
Suhail Aga