Hicham EL ABNINE
Senior QA Lead
35 years old
Driving License
Vélizy-Villacoublay (78140) France
Professional Status
Employed
Open to opportunities
About Me
I am a QA Lead passionate about software quality, test strategy, and test automation. I lead QA activities across international teams and ensure strong collaboration among all project stakeholders.
I am actively exploring the use of AI in testing, both to support and improve my daily QA activities and to better understand and test AI-based systems such as chatbots and other intelligent applications.
I am actively exploring the use of AI in testing, both to support and improve my daily QA activities and to better understand and test AI-based systems such as chatbots and other intelligent applications.
Experiences
Senior QA Lead
Renault Group
Since June 2023
Consultant
TCR Guyancourt
- Leading the overall QA and testing strategy across the project lifecycle.
- Leading the overall QA and testing strategy across the project lifecycle.
- Managing and mentoring a team of QA engineers on a daily basis, including test planning, prioritization, workload management, and coaching.
- Managing and mentoring a team of QA engineers on a daily basis, including test planning, prioritization, workload management, and coaching.
- Leading the test automation strategy and promoting QA best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Leading the test automation strategy and promoting QA best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders across multiple countries including France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.
- Coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders across multiple countries including France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.
- Ensuring strong collaboration between QA, development, product owner, business analysts, deployment and business teams to guarantee high-quality deliveries.
- Ensuring strong collaboration between QA, development, product owner, business analysts, deployment and business teams to guarantee high-quality deliveries.
- Facilitating Go/No-Go meetings and contributing to release readiness and production deployment decisions.
- Facilitating Go/No-Go meetings and contributing to release readiness and production deployment decisions.
- Supporting the QA team in adopting AI-powered testing approaches and modern QA practices.
- Supporting the QA team in adopting AI-powered testing approaches and modern QA practices.
- Contributing to the validation and testing strategy of AI-based systems, including an internal chatbot platform.
- Contributing to the validation and testing strategy of AI-based systems, including an internal chatbot platform.
- Monitoring quality metrics, test coverage, defect tracking, and overall QA reporting.
- Monitoring quality metrics, test coverage, defect tracking, and overall QA reporting.
- Stack & Tools : Jira, Xray, Playwright, Cypress, RestAssured, Bruno, Postman, Insomnia, Playwright MCP, playwright-cli.
Senior QA Engineer
Dassault Systèmes
June 2018
to June 2023
Full-time
Velizy-Villacoublay
France
- Develop/improve a testing strategy in line with the company’s projects and needs
- Ensure the appropriate planning and management of the automation team
- Determine the priority for test scenarios and create execution plans to implement them
- Build test automation frameworks
- Define and write acceptance criteria, test plans and associated datasets
- Design, develop and execute test automation scripts
- Follow and analyze the test results
- Increase the test coverage for the most critical features of the applications
- Enhance the test execution and results analysis time
- Improve the quality & robustness of the scripts
- Stack tools : Selenium(Java), SoapUI, Squash TM, RestAssured, Intern.io/leadfoot, Git, Postman,Yest(Smartesting), SahiPro, Cucumber(BDD framework)
QA Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions
October 2015
to June 2018
Full-time
Grenoble
France
- I have worked for the following clients : AccorHotels, SoftBank Robotics, Dalkia
- Intervene for above clients on test campaigns aimed at verifying the proper functioning and compliance of applications with functional needs, in the context of functional acceptance, non-regression and end-to-end testing.
- Analyze and clarification of requirements with the customers and the business analysts
- Define the test cases and review them with the business analysts in order to make sure that all the requirements are properly covered
- Plan the process of testing
- Conduct functional testing
- Share the testing results with all stakeholders
- Discuss defects with developers and re-test ones fixed
- Track the life cycle of errors
- Maintain the test documentation
- Mobile and Web test automation
- Stack tools : HP QC, TestRail, HP UFT, Appium(Java), SoapUI, Git, Pytest, Selenium(Java)
Test Automation Engineer
Orange
March 2015
to September 2015
Internship
Grenoble
France
- Comparative Study of Automated Testing Tools
- Determine the scope of test automation
- Document test plans, test designs, and test strategies
- Define the automation framework and develop the test scripts
- Set up the test environment
- Execute the automated scripts
- Analyze and generate the test reports
- Share the execution results with all stakeholders
- Stack tools : HP QC, Selenium(Java), SoapUI, Git, Cucumber(BDD framework)
Certifications
This master's objective is to build highly trained engineers capable of delivering good quality and trustworthy software systems to meet industry needs. The course combines theory and practice, and it is based on detailed knowledge of advanced technology and professional skills sought after by employers.
The specialized master "Networks and system" is interested in training students on networks and computer systems by providing them with skills and know-how in the fields of business engineering, networks as well as distributed systems and applications.
Skills
Computer Science
- Selenium, SOAPUI, , HP UFT,TESTNG, Git, Sahi, Leadfoot/intern.io, Java, Maven, Appium, Pytest, Cucumber, Gherkin, Playwright (MCP, CLI), Bruno, Insomnia
- Squash TM, TestRail, HP ALM, Jira, Xray
- SQL, J2EE
- Windows
- Microsoft Office : Word /Power Point/Excel
Testing
- Static/Dynamic testing
- BDD Testing
- Acceptance, System and Integration testing
- Software Verification & Validation
- Page Object Model (POM)
- Mobile/Web/API test automation
Management
- Scrum methodology
- MSProject, Project Planning
Langues
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English
Advanced
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Arabic
Expert
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French
Expert
Interests
Travel
- Morocco
- Europe
- Asia
Sport
- Football
- Swimming