
Zainab Rehman
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Toptal member since July 13, 2022
Zainab is a project manager, certified Agile Practitioner (PMI-ACP), and Scrum Master (PSM 1). With a background in computer sciences and over three years of experience in software development, she is keen on working with mobile development, eCommerce, and B2C solutions. Zainab excels in implementing Agile processes and handling conflict resolution, stakeholder management, and progress measurement with different metrics.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Certified Practitioner
- Agile Project Management
- Azure DevOps
- Business Analysis
- Estimation & Planning
- Jira
- Kanban
- Scrum Master
Work Experience
Scrum Master
Fieldforce
- Led collaborative efforts across cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, customer success, product, engineering, and quality assurance for successful product launches and to deliver value directly to customers and end users.
- Defined product scope based on customer needs, drafted the business requirements, bridged gaps, and took sign-off from all stakeholders before kick-off.
- Performed relationship management with squad teams which included developers, product owners, and quality assurance, aligning expectations, sharing customer needs and pain points, and managing dependencies for in-time deliveries.
- Managed all sprint ceremonies, including sprint planning, demos, testing, acceptance criteria, unit test cases, retrospectives, and story point estimates.
- Performed daily stand-ups and coordination with geographically distributed teams.
- Worked on extensive documentation on initiatives, epics, and story levels using Jira and Confluence.
Scrum Master
Telenor Group
- Trained a development team of nine members on scrum roles, metrics, artifacts, and events.
- Facilitated the daily scrum and sprint planning, review, and retrospective.
- Created 20+ user stories with a clear statement and acceptance criteria.
- Coached the product owner regarding scrum principles, assisting him in prioritizing and managing the product backlog.
- Introduced Planning Poker as an effective means to estimate user stories.
- Generated a dashboard on Azure DevOps for measuring and monitoring different metrics like velocity, burn-down charts, CFDs, etc.
- Facilitated and coached the team to become a self-empowering, fully agile, cross-functional team.
Agile Project Manager
Systems Limited
- Introduced Agile process to development teams comprising 15+ members.
- Developed project scope and objective of Telenor's Supply chain management system, franchise lifecycle management system, biometric verification system, and Apollo App (for retailers) with all relevant stakeholders.
- Implemented Kanban approach to resolve support tickets timely by limiting Work In Progress (WIP).
- Optimized Definition of Done (DoD) and Acceptance criteria with the product owner and team.
- Consolidated stakeholders' requirements and created user stories/solution documents.
- Measured and improved the progress and performance of the team by using Burn Down charts in Azure DevOps.
- Led 15+ roadmap planning sessions, sprint demos, and retrospectives.
- Encouraged discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across three cross-functional teams (Apollo, Supply Chain, and BVS).
- Insured 100% of Agile activities were tracked, kept up-to-date, and reported on Azure Dev Ops.
- Collaborated with the product owner and external stakeholders to prioritize and refine features.
Scrum Master
Visionet Systems
- Evaluated business requirements and generated user stories for Coach Outlet (international).
- Led a geographically distributed team of five members in planning, stand-up, and retrospective meetings.
- Reported daily and Sprint-wise status to the offshore lead project manager.
- Led requirement gathering sessions with the team and stakeholders.
- Collaborated with the product owner to prioritize and groom features from the product backlog.
- Constructed user stories with the help of the team and product owner.
- Supervised critical functional and UI testing of the landing page, detail page, cart, and checkout page.
- Performed end-to-end testing of an eCommerce website using Sales Force Commerce Cloud.
- Created Sprint-wise QA estimations using Affinity sizing and Planning Poker method.
- Administered reports. Tracked and managed bugs that are reported on Jira.
Quality Assurance Engineer
TechVista Systems Pvt
- Conducted quality assurance testing of 30 sprints.
- Administered bug tracking and reporting using Jira for 100+ defects.
- Performed API testing using Postman and performance testing using JMeter.
- Developed 500+ test plans and test cases, including performance test plans.
- Performed manual integration and end-to-end testing of the iOS and Android apps.
- Collaborated with the development team of five members for risk analysis and mitigation.
- Reviewed more than 50+ user interfaces for both the iOS and Android apps.
- Conducted user acceptance testing with the offshore team and stakeholders.
Project History
Apollo Revamp | Android App for Retailer
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tracker.sed.dms.app&hl=en&gl=USManaged several releases and sprints of critical B2C modules.
• Managing 10 team members, including developers, QA specialists, and a UX designer
• Coaching the product owner on scrum practices and processes
• Creating user stories for sprints
• Facilitating sprint planning, daily scrum, scrum review, and retrospective
• Reporting tasks and measured sprint progress using metrics like burndown charts and velocity
Telenor Tracker
Shifted 15+ team members from a waterfall to an agile work approach.
• Introducing the agile process to development teams comprising 15+ members
• Developing the project scope and objective of Telenor's supply chain management system, franchise lifecycle management system, and biometric verification system with all relevant stakeholders
• Implementing the Kanban approach to resolve support tickets timely by limiting the work in progress (WIP)
• Optimizing the definition of done (DoD) and acceptance criteria with the product owner and team
• Consolidating stakeholders' requirements and creating user stories and solution documents
• Measuring and improving team progress and performance by using burndown charts in Azure DevOps
• Leading 15+ roadmap planning sessions, sprint demos, and retrospectives
• Encouraging discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution across three cross-functional teams—Apollo, Supply Chain, and BVS
• Ensuring 100% of agile activities were tracked, kept up-to-date, and reported on Azure DevOps
• Collaborating with the product owner to prioritize and refine features and with commercial sales and logistics teams to incorporate timely feedback
• Identifying early risks and creating risk mitigation plans with the team and stakeholders
Tapestry | COACH Outlet
Led five QA team members to release deliveries using Salesforce Commerce Cloud.
• Evaluating business requirements and generating user stories for the COACH Outlet international with the business analyst
• Leading a geographically distributed team of five members in planning, stand-up, and retrospective meetings
• Handling daily and sprint-wise status reports with the offshore lead project manager
• Leading requirement gathering sessions with the team and stakeholders
• Supervising critical functional and UI testing of the landing page, detail page, cart, and checkout page
• Performing end-to-end testing of the eCommerce website using Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Performing tests of critical sales promotions using the Storefront toolkit administered report, and tracking and managing bugs reported on Jira
• Creating sprint-wise QA estimations using Affinity Estimation sizing and the Planning Poker method
• Working closely with the offshore project manager, engineering teams, and QA in a team lead capacity to maximize the output
Abu Dhabi Smart App
https://appadvice.com/app/abu-dhabi-smart/1438249223Performed quality assurance testing for an iOS and Android urban planning app.
• Conducting quality assurance testing of 30+ sprints
• Defining more than 30 user stories with requirements and acceptance criteria
• Administering bug tracking and reporting using Jira for 100+ defects
• Developing 500+ test plans and test cases, including performance test plans
• Performing manual, integration, and end-to-end testing of the iOS and Android apps
• Collaborating with the development team of five members for risk analysis and mitigation
• Reviewing more than 50+ user interfaces for the iOS and Android apps
• Conducting user acceptance testing with the offshore team and stakeholders
Fieldforce
http://www.getfieldforce.comLed collaborative efforts across cross-functional teams, including sales, marketing, customer success, PMO, product, engineering, and quality assurance for successful product launches and to deliver value directly to customers and end users.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) - Islamabad, Pakistan
Certifications
Professional Scrum Master Level I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Skills
Tools
Jira, Salesforce, Postman, Excel 2016, Apache JMeter, Slack, Confluence
Paradigms
Agile, Azure DevOps, Kanban, Agile Project Management, Scrum, B2C, Agile Leadership
Platforms
Android, iOS, Azure
Other
Agile Certified Practitioner, Scrum Master, Business Analysis, Conflict Resolution, Stakeholder Engagement, Estimation & Planning, Project Scoping, Salesforce Commerce Cloud (SFCC), QA Testing, eCommerce, Supply Chain, Web UI, Manual QA, QA Automation, QA Leadership, Website QA, Stakeholder Management, Teamwork, Microsoft Teams, Distributed Team Management, Functional Testing, UX Testing, Mobile App Testing, Native Mobile Apps, Urban Planning, Regression Testing, Status Updates, UI Testing, Capacity Planning, User Stories, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospectives, Business to Consumer (B2C), Mobile Applications, Telecom Equipment & Solutions, SAP, SaaS, SaaS Product Management, Software as a Service (SaaS)
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