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Sima Khaleque

Quality Assurance / Customer Service Rep

Summary

An independent and driven professional with a successful track record at managing multiple priorities with a positive and versatile attitude. Offering excellent communication and good judgment. Highly dependable, ethical and reliable, as well as a leader that blends advanced organizational, technical and business acumen. Works effectively with cross-functional teams in ensuring operational and service excellence. Driven Quality Assurance leader or Customer Support Resource with experience as primary point of escalation for high-level client questions, needs, wants and complaints. Strong interpersonal skills with talents for relating and empathizing with individuals of varying personalities and walks of life.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
3
3
Certificates
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Customer Support Representative

NexRep
08.2021 - 09.2022
  • Handled complaints calmly and professionally, providing appropriate solutions to promote continued customer satisfaction using Zendesk, Kustomer, Sprout and Facebook
  • Knowledge base tools used Guru, Nexcellation and OneNote
  • Utilized Xadmin/Solidus tools to manage customer account t requests, orders, refunds, and credits
  • Use of Adobe Connect/Skype as collaboration team tools

Key accomplishment:

  • Customer support rep of the month certificate

Customer Support QA/Resource Specialist

NexRep
07.2020 - 08.2021
  • Adobe Connect leveraged to assist and coach agents during customer calls as well as responsible for email escalations
  • Conducted quality appraisals to communicate learning opportunities, and successes and improvements
  • Managed agent schedules and expectations to ensure adherence
  • Prepared agent KPI dashboard and QA Score/Client dashboard/reports
  • Fosdick and Shopify tools used for order management
  • Maintained product and process knowledge base
  • Developed training videos and quizzes using Google forms
  • Slack utilized to communicate with client technical teams

Senior Quality Assurance Lead

J.C. Penney
Plano, TX
07.2010 - 09.2014
  • Collaborated with global teams to schedule and perform regression
  • Participated in quality assurance meetings to discuss current projects and developments
  • Training of relevant groups on how to leverage HP's Quality Center for defect tracking as well as use of JIRA
  • Guided test effort for Purchase Order Management, Receipt Forecasting Report and Trade Matrix Merchandise
  • Oversaw testing resources with Supply Chain business unit with budget of $1.5 million
  • Involved in simplification of existing technologies and applications, and transition to Oracle COTS applications including budget of $6 million
  • Determined ROI of automation processes and tools

Key accomplishments:

  • Promoted to senior lead after one year
  • Team Award

Snr Quality Assurance Manager

BMC Software
Plano, TX
12.2003 - 07.2010
  • Participated/documented design of system acceptance, smoke, regression, functional and UAT testing including Section 508 compliance
  • Guided processes for Software as a Service (SaaS) offering
  • Implemented agile-driven processes
  • Scrum Master managing local and global development and Quality Assurance personnel
  • Managed development and QA teams to release I18N & L10N versions
  • Organized global partner forums in Dallas, Texas, and Dublin, Ireland
  • Oversaw automation and performance testing processes resulting in $1 million annual savings and 40% reduction in customer defects

Key accomplishments:

  • Outstanding Woman Award at BMC
  • Certificate of Appreciation for DreamForce Event for Cloud Software
  • Drive-to-5 Star Award
  • Team Award for Excellence

Quality Assurance Manager

Network Associates (McAfee)
Santa Clara, CA
04.1999 - 12.2003
  • Led high-performing quality assurance teams
  • Designed/outlined QA strategy for test plans, test matrices, and checklists
  • Trained and mentored US based staff
  • Conducted reviews, 1:1 supervision and performance appraisals with staff
  • Manually tested release of first web-based solution
  • Participated in testing effort on MS SQL and Oracle back ends
  • Actively involved in preparation of testing environments/testing
  • Engaged in direction and design of functional aspects of core software
  • Setup operations in India as well as actively involved in preparation of environments and management of offshore teams

Key accomplishments:

  • Transferred from UK office to USA office due to product expertise
  • Promoted to Team Lead within months and then promoted to Manager
  • India Launch Team Award

Education

BSc (Hons) - Information Systems Management

Bournemouth University
United Kingdom
08.1989 - 06.1993

Skills

    Technical aptitude

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Certification

Coaching for Contribution

Timeline

Customer Support Representative

NexRep
08.2021 - 09.2022

Customer Support QA/Resource Specialist

NexRep
07.2020 - 08.2021

Senior Quality Assurance Lead

J.C. Penney
07.2010 - 09.2014

Snr Quality Assurance Manager

BMC Software
12.2003 - 07.2010

Quality Assurance Manager

Network Associates (McAfee)
04.1999 - 12.2003

BSc (Hons) - Information Systems Management

Bournemouth University
08.1989 - 06.1993
Sima KhalequeQuality Assurance / Customer Service Rep