Ahmed Azhar

Solutions Engineer | Ex-Citibank | McGill Alumni

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

Experience

  • The UK Job Institute (London Area, United Kingdom)
    • Head of Marketing
      Jan 2025 - Jan 2026 · 1 yr 1 mo

      I directed and produced digital content for Instagram to educate international students on how to land their dream UK job. I primarily focused on building scalable marketing systems to publish content on Instagram, consistently. I was able to amass a following of 35,000+ on Instagram and generate 2M+ views everything month for The UK Job Institute.

    • Head of Student Experience
      Apr 2024 - Dec 2024 · 9 mos

      I make sure students who join The UK Job Institute get supported in the best way possible so they land their dream UK jobs in 90 days 🚀

  • Citi (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
    • Application Support Analyst
      Jul 2023 - Apr 2024 · 10 mos

    • Software Analyst 2
      Jul 2022 - Jul 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Responsibilities: • Maintained JIL files and AutoSys jobs needed for monthly production release • Developed SQL scripts to maintain data integrity across all environments - UAT, SIT, PROD • Designed testing suites for the GBSGateway project using JUnit testing framework and Java

    • Software Analyst 1
      Jul 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Achievements: • Marketed Release Automation (RA), an internal deployment tool, to 20+ teams internal across Citibank's Global Spread Product (GSP) department • Lead presenter for Release Automation. Demo-ed Release Automation to multiples teams internally • Release Automation was listed among the top noticed tech products by VPs at Citibank • Successfully onboarded 11 teams from GSP on to Release Automation • Main point of contact and Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Release Automation • Enhanced the deployment cycle by 85% for GSP applications via Release Automation Responsibilities: • Built the Release Automation (RA) tool for the GSP DevOps team that automates the deployment cycle • Reduced up to 85% of the manual overhead while deploying applications across departments • RA automated pre-release shell jobs, application deployment and post-release checkouts • Provided tech support to users for RA and prepared detailed technical documentation for RA features • Assisted production support teams with end-to-end release cycles via RA

  • Solutions Engineer at Sales Academy of Technology
    Jan 2023 - Oct 2023 · 10 mos

  • Software Analyst at Nuance Communications
    May 2020 - Aug 2020 · 4 mos

    • Optimized runtime for test automation for Ninaweb web-client by 80% for Quality Assurance • Built a highly efficient automated testing suite for Ninaweb web-client • Developed JUnit tests in Java, used Selenium web driver and Gradle build framework • Actively used the Agile Scrum methodology for the development process

  • Software Quality Assurance Analyst at Haivision
    May 2019 - Aug 2019 · 4 mos

    • Member of the Quality Assurance Team in Test Automation worked with Agile Scrum methodology • Automated testing procedure of Haivision’s embedded system -Makito Encoder/Decoder • Built a Python dictionary as a database for MIB files associated with the Makito, saving time on MIB object searching • Tested validity of 1000 MIB objects in under 2 minutes • Developed an efficient testing suite with SNMP protocol and Pytest written in Python 3.6.8 to test the Makito device • Saved up to 75% in test execution-time. Reduced testing from1 month of manual testing to 1 week of automated run-time • Automated testing of Network File System (NFS) server. Script tested storage of Makito-produced video/pictures on NFS server. • Script optimized NFS server test-execution by 80%. Reduced testing time from 5 hours to 1 hour