
Kalthoum Mbarek
Senior Product Owner | Agile & Test Management
Salary / Daily rate
Ben Arous, Tunisia
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Certified Product Owner with 10+ years in tech, specializing in AI-powered platforms and agile delivery. Led digital transformation projects achieving 60% efficiency gains and 40% productivity increases. Expert in stakeholder management, backlog prioritization, and translating customer needs into successful product features.
Work experience
Product Owner
YaiGlobal
Oct 2021 - Present
5 years 1 month
Sulayman, Tunisia
∠Leading the development of an AI-powered website platform designed to support libraries in digitizing and managing their document collections. ∠Leading the development of a cloud solution for managing data annotations to help customers training and deploying machine learning models. ∠ Contributed to the creation of the product vision and alignment with strategic priorities with stakeholders. ∠ Engaged with customers and stakeholders and translated customer requirement into defined features and user stories. ∠ Managed the backlog of features and prioritized them into sprints for the Dev team to develop according to project timelines. ∠ Worked closely with development team to ensure understanding of product vision and requirements ∠ Developed key automation for reporting resulting in improved pay slip closing cycle by 60 percent ∠ Conducted workload assessments and devised new operational processes that led to a 40 percent of increase in productivity. ∠ Communicate product status and updates to stakeholders and business teams ∠ Guided user research and usability testing to ensure that products are intuitive and easy to use ∠ Continuously look opportunities to improve the product by gathering feedback, and analyzing competition Key : Scrum, Agile, Jira, Confluence, AWS Cloud, Figma, Miro
SAGEMCOM
Jun 2011 - Oct 2021
10 years 5 months
Mégrine, Tunisia
QA Project Manager
May 2015 - Oct 2021
6 years 6 months
Mégrine, Tunisia
∠ Directed the project-based test team to ensure the highest standard of testing processes and services are provided. ∠ Defined the test policy and test strategy, and kept an eye on testing activities in relation to the budget and quality criteria that have been set. ∠ Worked closely with the project manager, development teams and other stakeholders to manage risks and issues ∠ Ensuring the quality of products for telecom providers Proximus, TDC, GVT, KPN, TFN, Telia, and TIM ∠ Reported progress to management, customer and Manage defects ∠ Investigated any testing deficiencies and documented and analyzed the test results ∠ Respected the commitments of costs, quality and deadline ∠ continuously improved the testing and quality practices already in place to obtain a better outcome Jira Xray Confluence Process KPI 5 Whys Agile projects Waterfall projects Team
Software QA Engineer
Jun 2011 - May 2015
4 years
Mégrine, Tunisia
∠ Created test plans and test procedures based on user requirements and product specifications ∠ Turned product requirements into test requirements ∠ reviewed test cases and test plans with members of a cross-functional team (Engineering, Product Management, Product Design) ∠ Documented, and communicated defects and issues discovered during test execution ∠ Contributed to test process improvements and refinement of QA practices ∠ Verified that the validated outcome complies with the functional and design requirements. ∠ Executed automatic tests throughout Jenkins ∠ mentoring, assisting young engineers, and providing training Testlink bugzilla Jenkins Voip IPTV TCP/IP Linux
HP
Oct 2009 - May 2011
1 year 8 months
Sulayman, Tunisia
Remote Support Account Advocate
Dec 2010 - May 2011
6 months
Sulayman, Tunisia
∠ Verify that Service Level Agreements (SLA) requirements from external businesses and end users are met. ∠ Create and build a solid rapport with your customers. ∠ Achieve the highest possible levels of client satisfaction
HP Mission Critical Support Engineer
Oct 2009 - Dec 2010
1 year 3 months
Sulayman, Tunisia
Customer support AIRBUS, BNP PARISBAS, AIR FRANCE, SNCF ∠ Customer assistance and guidance for HP end-to-end solutions ∠ Monitor and keep track of infrastructure issues and fix hardware technical problem
Server Support Engineer
Sellbytel
Jun 2006 - Oct 2009
3 years 5 months
Support servers, storage, and solutions for HP EMEA clients.
Education
INSAT - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie
2000 - 2006
7 years