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Hicham El AbnineHE

Hicham El Abnine

Senior QA Lead

€550/day
Vélizy-Villacoublay, FR
8-15 years
Playwright
Atlassian JIRA
artificial intelligence
QA testing
Project Management

Average response time: 1 hour

About Hicham

Senior QA Lead avec 12 ans d'expérience dans la qualité logicielle et l'automatisation des tests.

Disponible en soirée et le week-end, j'interviens sur des missions ponctuelles à forte valeur ajoutée pour identifier les risques, améliorer la qualité de vos livraisons et optimiser vos pratiques QA : dashboards Jira & KPI, audit QA, revue de frameworks d'automatisation, maintenance de tests automatisés et tests exploratoires.
Hotel industry
Digital and IT Services
Automotive supplier
Consulting and Audits
Energy and Electricity

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Vélizy-Villacoublay (up to 20km)

Experience

  • Renault Digital
    Senior QA Lead
    AUTOMOBILE
    June 2023 - Today (3 years)
    Guyancourt, France
    - 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 owners, 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.
    Playwright Xray Atlassian JIRA Bruno Postman
  • Dassault Systèmes
    Senior QA Lead
    SOFTWARE PUBLISHING
    June 2018 - June 2023 (5 years)
    78140 Vélizy-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)
    Selenium SoapUI Postman Squash TM Cucumber
  • Cognizant Technology solutions
    QA Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    October 2015 - June 2018 (2 years and 8 months)
    - 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)
    HP ALM TestRail SoapUI Selenium Selenium WebDriver UFT Appium Git Pytest
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Education

  • Master 2 Professionnel en ingénierie des systèmes et management de projet, Qualité et sûreté de fonctionnement logiciel
    Université D'Angers
    2015
    Master 2 Professionnel en ingénierie des systèmes et management de projet, Qualité et sûreté de fonctionnement logiciel
  • Master 1 Spécialisé Réseau et Systemes
    Université Ibnou Zohr-Agadir
    2014
    Master 1 Spécialisé Réseau et Systemes

Certifications

  • ISTQB Test Manager Certification v3.0
    GASQ
    2025
  • ISTQB CT‑GenAI v1.0 (Testing with Generative AI)
    GASQ
    2026
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Skill set

Selenium
Selenium WebDriver
Automatisation des tests
SoapUI
Squash TM
Java
Recette fonctionnelle
Recette technique
Cucumber
JavaScript
Cypress
HP ALM
UFT
Postman
restassured
intern.io
Git
Yest
BDD
TestRail
Appium
Pytest
Sele
Test Environment Management
Testing and Quality Assurance

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