1. Project Description and Responsibilities
NCB , ATC Saudi
Arabia and
Daman Insurance
UAE
Worked as a Program Manager-Testing for the below projects across geographical locations for over a
period of 14 months
• Nextgen Banking Transformation Program for National Commercial bank Saudi Arabia
• IT PMO Program Manager for Service Facility Projects Daman Insurance UAE
• Test Consulting for Al Ahli Takaful Insurance Company Saudi Arabia
Responsibility: E2E delivery and Signoff; Risk Analysis, Change Management including Impact Analysis ;
Metrics Collection & Maintenance – Process, Product & Project; Status Reporting
American
Express USA, UK
and Australia
Worked as a Program Manager-Testing for the below projects for American express across geographical
location for over a period of 4+ years
• Pegasus India Singapore Corporate Cards Migration ( 1500 functional requirements , 80+ impacted
systems)
• Legal Entity Restructuring-SEPA Program - AEPSL, AESEL and SPAIN
• Multi-currency Global Expansion Program – GMFS I, GMFS II and MCCY Japa Region ( 5 countries )
Responsibility: E2E Test delivery and Signoff; Risk Analysis, Change Management including Impact
Analysis, Gap Analysis, Change Request Life Cycle & Prioritization; Metrics Collection & Maintenance
– Process, Product & Project; Status reporting; Quality Process Compliance & Audit preparation;
Effort Estimation, Defect Management, Test metrics collection and Maintenance; Risk based testing
Facilitation and Sign-off.
Standard
Chartered Bank
India
Citibank
Germany
Worked as an E2E Test Manager for the migration of PeopleSoft HRMS 8.3 to 9.1 for standard chartered
bank. Entire project was executed in client premises & Test Manager for Wealth Mgmt UAT for Citibank
Responsibility: SOW Preparation & Sign-off; Overall Test delivery management and Signoff
Status Reporting ; Quality Process Compliance; Audit preparation; Preparation of Effort Estimation, Run
plan and Execution plan; Team management (Planning, Monitoring & Tracking);Defect Management; Test
metrics collection and Maintenance.
Syed has 14+ years of IT experience with major
emphasis on Banking products; Seasoned
Management professional with expertise in
Delivery management and handling Large Business
Accounts
He has strong core banking knowledge , Proficiency
in Finacle .Also handled assignments that involved
products PeopleSoft, Siebel, B@ncs, Vision Plus,
Systematics & Intellect core
Strengths
• Expertise in Core; Retail; Private; Investment
Banking & Wealth Management.
• Experience in handling programs involved
projects that follow different SDLC
methodologies(Waterfall, Agile)
• Widespread global familiarity including long-
term assignments in United Kingdom, Australia,
United States and Middle east
• Proven track record of setting up and growing
high performing teams integrating continuous
improvement
Has strong academic background and holds a
Masters degree in Information Technology
Technical and Domain Skills:
•Core Banking
•Cards and Payments
•HP ALM
•Program Management
•Test Management
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Syed Abdulquader PRINCE2P,CSM, ITIL
(Program Manager)Professional Experience
Testing Tools
• HP ALM
• Rational Suite
• Caliber RM