Amr Atya
Program Lead · Quality Engineering Lead
+49 176 73947838
Hamburg, Germany
Technical Program Manager and Quality Engineering Leader with 14+ years building the operational backbone of complex SaaS programs — CI/CD compliance pipelines, release governance, and AI-driven orchestration tooling. At SAP, owns SDX Product Standards implementation and exception cycle, drives release decisions with senior Engineering and Product leadership, and delivers infrastructure that makes programs predictable and auditable at scale.
Experience
SAP SE
11.2021 – PresentProgram Lead & Quality Engineering LeadHamburg, GermanyDual role spanning technical program management and quality engineering — owns the compliance pipeline foundation, release governance, and AI-first tooling for GT & SDX across SAP’s SuMa organization.
CI/CD & Compliance Engineering
- Designed and delivered the end-to-end CI/CD compliance pipeline for GT & SDX on Jenkins (GCP) and GitHub Actions: automated evidence collection across 19 pipeline slots (test results, SonarQube, SAST, SBOMs), OPA policy-as-code validation, and upload to GCS buckets read by Hyperspace Portal.
- 7-gate pre-release quality gate enforcing green status across main pipeline, SAST, full test run, SonarQube pre-release scan, and Cumulus upload before any release candidate is tagged.
- Own the centralized Product Standards compliance evidence hub (ps-compliance) across 12+ SAP requirement domains (FC, SLC, SEC, PERF, DPC, ACC+), plus the developer pipeline documentation site (pipeline-workflow-docs).
- Integrated DORA metrics tracking (deployment frequency, lead time for changes) into the main pipeline via GitHub Actions, giving management visibility into delivery performance.
Process & Delivery
- Technical release manager for GT & SDX: defined the release process aligned with SAP Product Standards and set release quality criteria; facilitate weekly release decision meetings with Lead PMs, Engineering Leads, and senior stakeholders, translating pipeline status into executive-ready reporting.
- Quarterly SAP Product Standards exception cycle at SuMa level: coordinates cross-functional exception review with fellow Program Leads, tracks remediation commitments, and reports status to senior leadership — owning the program from identification through resolution.
- Mentored engineers and Scrum Masters on conflict resolution and career growth; contributed to hiring pipelines and cross-team retrospectives.
- Built gt-orchestrator, an AI-driven program management toolkit: multi-phase ticket pipeline, PSR compliance deep-dives, and a "/orchestrate release" skill that auto-generates the weekly release digest, publishes decision wikis to Confluence, and sets Sirius status — collapsing a multi-hour process into one command.
Contorion GmbH
12.2017 – 10.2021Software Quality Assurance EngineerBerlin, Germany- Led QA for Contorion’s Elasticsearch-powered product search, ensuring high relevance and stability in customer-facing results.
- Built and maintained automated test suites supporting CI/CD pipelines running 5–10 deployments per day.
- Contributed to hiring — CV screening, technical interviews, onboarding, and mentoring of new team members.
- Championed quality practices in Agile ceremonies; acted as delegate Scrum Master and Product Owner to bridge technical and product perspectives.
PaxLife GmbH
08.2017 – 11.2017Software Quality Assurance AnalystPotsdam, Germany- Designed and maintained manual test cases to support rapid iterations in a fast-moving startup environment.
- Collaborated closely with developers and product owners to maintain test coverage as features evolved.
IBM
06.2016 – 08.2017Test SpecialistCairo, Egypt- Designed test strategies from business requirement documents, prioritizing coverage by risk.
- Built a Power BI QA reporting dashboard linking defects to test cases, improving defect traceability and accelerating decision-making for project stakeholders.
TEData
09.2012 – 06.2016QA SpecialistCairo, Egypt- Led design and automation of dashboards for IT process audits, improving audit visibility and reducing manual effort.
- Aligned IT processes with ITIL standards including Network and InfoSec protocols; supported KPMG-led general IT compliance audits.
Skills & Expertise
Leadership & AgileProgram management, release management, engineering team enablement, mentoring, stakeholder alignment, cross-team facilitation, hiring & onboarding, conflict resolution, Agile transformation
Quality EngineeringTest planning & strategy, test automation (API, E2E, integration), CI/CD pipeline design, release quality gates, OPA policy-as-code, compliance evidence automation, SonarQube, SAST, DORA metrics, SAP Product Standards compliance
AI & AutomationLLM-assisted development, agentic workflow orchestration, multi-agent systems, AI-powered tooling, workflow automation
Tools & FrameworksGitHub Actions, Jenkins, GCP (Cloud Storage, Cloud Build), Jira, Confluence, Git, OPA/Rego, CycloneDX, Rest Assured, Postman, Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, Codeception, Power BI
LanguagesArabic (native) · English (fluent) · German (intermediate)
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Computer and Systems EngineeringAkhbar El Yom Academy, Cairo, Egypt2005–2010