
Majd Mansour
Senior Digital Product Manager | Banking
Salary / Daily rate
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Digital banking product manager with 8+ years delivering innovative solutions across UAE & Saudi Arabia. Led development of first-of-its-kind business banking apps, digital credit cards, and private banking platforms with SAMA compliance expertise. Specialized in end-to-end product lifecycle, agile methodologies, and driving user experience through data-driven personalization.
Work experience
Product Manager
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank through Halian
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 10 months
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
Digital Product Manager
Banque Saudi Fransi
May 2022 - Mar 2024
1 year 11 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
➤ Leading the Product, Design & Engineering teams delivering an innovation solution for Private banking department helping Them: ➢ Solve the current pain points & offer elevating features within a digital app ➢ Competitor analysis and benchmarking ➢ Customer analysis ➢ opportunity scoring using the RACI method ➢ Assist & lead the delivery of the app ➤ Launching a Digital Credit card app by placing a heavy emphasis on personalization thru data analysis and predictions, rather than a one-size fits all approach: ➢ Follow the SAMA regulations to be complianed while aiming to build onboarding, instant card application and swift customer care ➢ Prioritization & Road mapping: Proficient in prioritizing features and creating strategic product roadmaps that align with business objectives and user needs. ➢ End-to-End Ownership: From ideation to market release, I am dedicated to overseeing every phase of the product lifecycle, ensuring a successful and seamless journey.
Product Owner
E20.
Oct 2019 - Aug 2022
2 years 11 months
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
- Work directly with other product owners, system engineers, program managers, developers, testers, and customers to define features and technical user stories for E20. project. (first of its kind in the UAE) - Delivered the application on iOS and android. Application is fully capable of generating an IBAN number for the customer within 10 minutes of onboarding a customer while performing all the necessary KYC checks in the background -Support an Agile Software Development process, working in conjunction with end users/stakeholders and technical delivery team to ensure product vision is understood and translated into a product backlog in the format of user stories and acceptance criteria. - Responsible for interfacing with the Enterprise Architecture Steering Team to make sure the development plans/roadmaps align with the business strategy and execution plans. - Manage the release plans for the scrum team including developing and gaining acceptance for yearly sprint cadence. - Work closely, as a partner, with the scrum teams and architecture team throughout the product life cycle. - Conduct regular backlog grooming sessions with the scrum team. - Develop quarterly metrics on the progress for the scrum team and present to Sr. Management. - Good Communication and Interpersonal skills with a clear understanding of business logic. - Hands-on software tools like JIRA, Confluence,Miro , Ziplin and Trello
Emirates NBD
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
4 years 5 months
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
Leading Quality of testing in E20. digital business bank
Dec 2019 - Oct 2020
11 months
Nahwa - Aturrah - Sharjah - United Arab Emirates
• Lead testing for E20. Digital Business Bank (first of its kind in the UAE) •Support the product owner creating the User Stories • Collaborated with stakeholders effectively across the business and geographies in order to Testing and deliver the first iteration of a working app within 5 months • Hands on UI/UX , System testing on all mobile platforms using design systems • Test Backend APIs ,System integration for all downstream core system by doing Shift Left Testing and Decoupled Testing in TDD fashion. • Provides usability suggestions, which would make the app more user friendly • Good Communication and Interpersonal skills with clear understanding of business logic • Actively participated in static testing activities such as design review and requirements inspections to • identify ambiguity and inconsistency in requirements in addition to improving UI\UX Design of bank software products. • Analyzing the requirements from customers and breaking down to user stories and use cases to work on each Sprint • Concentrates to identify and define tests that would maximize coverage resulting in better user experience • Performing crowd sourced functional exploratory testing on various mobile and web applications Hands-on software tools like JIRA With zephyr,Confluence and Visual Studio TFS
Senior Software Test Engineer
Jun 2016 - Oct 2020
4 years 5 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
− Acting as a Project Product owner for ENBD online and mobile banking; leading the team and assigning testing work to team mates − Provides usability suggestions, which would make the app more user friendly − Good Communication and Interpersonal skills with clear understanding of business logic − Actively participated in static testing activities such as design review and requirements inspections to identify ambiguity and inconsistency in requirements in addition to improving UI\UX Design of bank software products. − Analyzing the requirements from customers and breaking down to user stories and use cases to work on each Sprint − Concentrates to identify and define tests that would maximize coverage resulting in better user experience − Participated in translating online and mobile banking apps to Arabic language as per the business needs (e.g. KSA) − Performing crowd sourced functional exploratory testing on various mobile and web applications − Hands-on software testing tools like JIRA and Visual Studio TFS − Working in Agile development Environment − Actively participated in daily standup meetings as a member of the Scrum team, sharing project timelines as part of status meetings, retrospective meetings and iteration review − Develop test SQL scripts for data creation and testing − Good Java background to ease the communication with the develops and better understand the requirements from a technical perspective
Emirates Islamic
Dec 2014 - May 2016
1 year 6 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Software Quality control Engineer
Dec 2014 - May 2016
1 year 6 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
• Ensure the project requirements are executable, testable, complete and unambiguous. • Develop test cases, test procedures, and test scripts for the software builds. • Identify test data. • Execute smoke and ad hoc testing when needed. • Execute functional and non-functional test cases and scripts, analyze and report results. • Testing mobile apps with the following platforms (Samsung phones , Samsung Tables, iOS phones, iOS tables, Black berry ) • Identify, analyze, document and track errors/faults/failures and bugs that are inconsistent with the stated requirements and design specifications. • Set the bugs’ severity and assist in prioritizing bugs for resolution in coordination with the project team. • Verify and follow-up on bugs fixes. • Report testing progress and results at regular basis. • Create User Acceptance Checklists. • Conduct User Acceptance Test when needed. • Conduct client training when needed. • Assist in the identification, recommendation and implementation of testing tools and processes to enhance the effectiveness of quality control and testing strategies.
UAT Specialist
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
2 months
Dubai - United Arab Emirates
Quality Control Engineer
SSSProcess
Dec 2011 - Dec 2014
3 years 1 month
Developing and implementing test plans − Exclusively involved in various types of testing like System Testing, Regression Testing, User Interface Testing, Re-Testing and Database Testing − Expertise in Manual Testing concepts − Designing appropriate test cases to provide optimal test coverage − Performed Gray box testing using extensive SQL statements executed to verify the data in the database − Identified all the possible defects, logged them in the defect logging tool − Design test plans, procedures, scenarios, and scripts to accurately assess new products or software updates according to customer requirements and company policies − Executed the test cases given and performed Exploratory Testing
Education
Al-Balqa Applied University (BAU)
Bachelor's degree
2006 - 2011
5 years 1 month
al shamleh
Regular/General High School/Secondary Diploma Program
2004 - 2006
2 years 1 month