Saba Khan

• Managing the technology roadmap, guiding the company through digital transformation and accelerating product development cycles.
• Leading a talented team of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning.
• Translated business goals into technical strategies, resulting in efficiency improvements, and product innovations.
• Played a pivotal role in launching the Financial Hardship and Collections products, contributing to market share for the business.
• Collaborated with the executive team to align technology strategies with business objectives.
• Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
• Developed and initiated projects, managed costs, and monitored performance.
• Conducting trainings, demos, creating and implementing processes and best practices
• Use data and insights gathered to drive strategic decision-making.

Developed and launched Kizyr, a phenomenal savings platform, with a social impact.

• Determined business plan, identified and qualified customer needs and created business canvas and product roadmaps based on that.
• Mapped income generating strategies to grow revenue.
• Product Management - Validating product opportunities and crafting an influential product strategy.
• Managed marketing, new product development, decision-making and strategy planning, forging productive relationships with industry leaders in Fintech..
• Negotiated terms of business partnerships to increase business base and solidify market presence.
• Interviewed, supervised and motivated offshore team members to achieve optimal productivity.
• Created and updated company digital presence to enhance Kizyr’s marketing through professional website and optimized social media profiles.
• Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.

• Researched and designed new UX designs to make website more user-friendly, resulting in 90% increased user satisfaction.
• Applied both qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continuously improve end-user experiences.
• Performed manual testing on UX design elements and complete UX designs, authoring feedback reports for use in future updates.
• Collaborated with IT and Marketing personnel to create holistic UX vision and strategies.
• Devised diagrams to outline system interactions and sequences underpinning interfaces.

Maksymsol was a boutique software development firm working with entrepreneurs, startups, and enterprises to build custom softwares.

• Designed & Built innovative consumer products, core internal systems & mission-critical applications from Strategy To Launch.
• Collaboration & Leadership responsibilities entailed building the development team from the ground up.
• Managed the technical development process: strategy, infrastructure, software development teams, outsourcing contracts
• Conducted meetings with clients to determine project intent, requirements and budgets.
• Organized and attended trade shows and special events to showcase products, network with other businesses and attract new customers.
• Conducted target market research to scope out industry competition and identify advantageous trends.
• Created organization's mission and vision statements for use by employees.
• Developed key operational initiatives to drive and maintain substantial business growth.
• Formed senior leadership team through rigorous interviews and extensive candidate research.

• iWave Software(acquired by EMC), was a provider of enterprise storage and private cloud automation software.
• Devised cohesive test plans for projects using advanced testing technologies.
• Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
• Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
• Conducted load, stress and performance tests using Jmeter to simulate realistic user activities.
• Tracked, prioritized and organized defects with Zephyr, working with the development team to facilitate timely corrections.
• Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
• Acted as the liaison among product, IT, and sales teams to understand customer demand for new features and new potential markets to move into.

• Developed software for desktop and web applications.
• Collaborated on stages of systems development lifecycle from requirement gathering to production releases.
• Introduced automated testing protocols, shortening software validation timeframes 60%.
• Communicated and explained business requirements to team members to understand and implement functional demands.
• Collaborated with upper management to drive strategy and implement new processes.
• Conducted thorough reviews of operations to devise and deploy improvement strategies.
• Compiled research data and gave professional presentations highlighting findings and recommended optimizations.

i2cinc is a leading Payment Processing platform provider that provides card issuers with the tools to create their own future of payments.

• Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet customer requirements for functionality, scalability and performance.
• Managed the change requests, configurations, releases and shipments for the leading product MyCardplace.
• Coordinated efficient large-scale software deployments.
• Implemented Subversion for version control across the organisation and trained the cross-platform teams to use it effectively.
• Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
• Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
• Worked with customers for needs analysis and to determine vendor costs.
• Integrated third-party tools and components into applications.
• Identified and documented project changes with proactive budget oversight.
• Provided guidance and mentored less-experienced staff members.
• Tested methodology with writing and execution of test plans, debugging and testing scripts and tools.
• Participated in architecture, design and implementation of back-end features
• Provided direction and guidance to process improvements and established policies.