Expériences — Hicham EL ABNINE

Experiences

- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

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)

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)

Company website

https://www.cognizant.com/

Hicham EL ABNINE