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Mahmoud SahmaouiMS

Mahmoud Sahmaoui

QA Lead Automation & Agile Delivery Manager

€611/day
Paris, FR
8-15 years
QA testing
Functional Acceptance
Scrum
Project Management
Team Management

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About Mahmoud

Quality Analyst Lead with over 13 years of experience in quality management, test automation, and Agile project management. ISTQB Test Manager certified with expertise in testing tools such as Selenium, QTP/UFT, and JIRA. Proven experience in team leadership and test process improvement.
Technical Skills:
- Testing Tools: Selenium (C# and JAVA), QTP/UFT, HP-ALM, JIRA, Jenkins
- Programming Languages: C#, JAVA/J2EE, Python, SQL
- Methodologies: Agile, Scrum, ITIL V2
- Test Automation: Cucumber, SpecFlow, Ranorex

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • ENGIE Global Energie Management
    QA LEAD – Automation Engineer | RELEASE MANAGER | Scrum Master
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    January 2020 - Today (6 years and 5 months)
    Courbevoie, France
    Responsible for acceptance testing for the WattsOn project, an automated web portal allowing major industrial clients to precisely manage their energy budget (consumption, billing, real-time data).

    Test Automation & QA Leadership:
    - Definition of test strategy and creation of automated scenarios with a team of 2 testers
    - Update of non-regression tests and management of test environments
    - Direction of functional test automation (Selenium/C#) with a 30% improvement in efficiency
    - Execution of test campaigns, identification and assignment of bugs
    - Optimization of test plans, test suites, and data
    - Capitalization and closure of tests according to ISTQB standards

    Quality Promotion:
    - Training and supervision of new team members
    - Proposal of continuous improvements validated at 80%
    - Functional validation of developments
    - Close collaboration with business, architects, and development teams
    - Regular reporting to management and strategic recommendations

    Release Management & Scrum Master:
    - Facilitation of Agile ceremonies (Daily, Retrospectives)
    - Securing deployments (preparation, dependencies, Sanity Checks)
    - Multi-environment deployments and DevOps collaboration
    - Management of non-production databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL)

    Technical Environment:
    Microsoft Azure, Azure DevOps, BDD, Git, SpecFlow, Selenium (C#), MySQL/PostgreSQL

    Key Achievements:
    ✅ Automation of 500+ critical tests
    ✅ 25% reduction in bug resolution times
    ✅ Stable delivery of 12 annual releases
    ✅ 15% improvement in customer satisfaction
    QA testing Team Management Project Management
  • PARIBAS
    QA LEAD – Automation Engineer | RELEASE MANAGER
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    October 2017 - December 2019 (2 years and 2 months)
    Levallois-Perret, France
    Dual key role: Test Manager at the TEC expertise center (guarantor of quality for several simultaneous projects) and Release Manager for 40 business applications (guaranteed weekly delivery).

    Test Strategy and Management:
    - Design and organization of test schedules aligned with the global strategy
    - Definition of scopes, resource allocation, and means optimization
    - Management of testing activities and knowledge capitalization
    - Facilitation of test committees for effective collaboration

    Qualification and Continuous Improvement:
    - Risk management and communication on non-quality issues
    - Implementation of good testing practices (ISTQB standards)
    - Proposal of improvements based on feedback
    - Verification of prerequisites and definition of test environments
    - Development of comprehensive test plans (including critical scenarios)
    - Automation of non-regression tests (UFT/QTP)
    - Optimization of test plans, test suites, and data

    Release Management:
    - Weekly delivery of 40+ applications with continuity and reliability
    - Coordination of releases and securing deployments (dependencies, risks)
    - Representation of business teams during deployments with Fcare/ITS
    - Centralized tracking of deliverables (reports, acceptance tests, GO/NO-GO)
    - Supervision of nightly batch processes
    - Main point of contact for ITS/Fcare teams
    - Proposal of process optimization areas

    Technical Environment:
    ServiceNow, Splunk, UFT/QTP, HP-ALM, Web Services, Batch, Agile

    Key Achievements:
    ✅ 100% of weekly deliveries successful (40 applications)
    ✅ 35% reduction in production incidents due to enhanced testing
    ✅ 40% improvement in delivery cycle times
    ✅ Standardization of test and release processes
    Automation
  • SACEM
    QA LEAD - Automation Engineer
    CULTURE
    November 2014 - September 2017 (2 years and 10 months)
    Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
    Project management for the OCTAV test project, a key IT modernization program for work, aggregates, and contract documentation, aiming to optimize processes and enhance overall performance.

    Project Management & Test Strategy:
    - Complete test planning (approaches, resources, costs, risks)
    - Definition of KPIs to evaluate efficiency and quality
    - Dynamic adjustment of schedules for continuous optimization
    - Creation of test plans compliant with organizational strategies
    - Collaboration with stakeholders for test case writing
    - Transparent client reporting via acceptance test reports

    Team Management:
    - Identification of skill needs and participation in recruitment
    - Mentoring and personalized training of team members
    - Definition of individual objectives and regular mission reviews
    - Facilitation of Daily Meetings and Agile retrospectives

    Testing & Automation:
    - Analysis of requirement testability for optimal coverage
    - Bug qualification and prioritization
    - Script execution and anomaly reporting
    - Preparation of test data and load simulation
    - Test automation via QTP/QC (40% efficiency gain)
    - Review and contribution to test plans

    Administration & Tools:
    - Management of releases, test cycles, and user authorizations

    Technical Environment:
    HP-QC, QTP/UFT 12.53, Jenkins, JIRA, Oracle SQL, Shell, Agile, TDD/BDD

    Key Achievements:
    ✅ 80% of tests automated via QTP/QC
    ✅ 30% reduction in testing times through optimization
    ✅ 25% improvement in test coverage
    ✅ Successful delivery of the modernized solution
    Automation Team Management QA testing Functional Acceptance
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Education

  • Master 2 Applied Computer Methods for Business Management
    University Paris 1
    2012
    Master 2 Méthodes Informatiques Appliquées à la Gestion de l'Entreprise
  • Master 2 Information Systems & Knowledge (SIC)
    IAE of Paris
    2012
    Master 2 SI & Connaissances (SIC)

Certifications

  • ISTQB Foundation
    ORSYS
    2017
  • ISTQB Test Manager
    ORSYS
    2017

Skill set

Testing and Quality Assurance
Performance Optimization
CI/CD Management
Test Environment Management
Scripting Automation
Batch Processing
Database Management (e.g., SQL, NoSQL)
Agile Ceremonies Facilitation
Agile Project Management
Agile Team Coaching
Change and Transformation Management
Automation
IT Support
Back-End Development
Production Monitoring

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