Amr Atya

Program Lead · Quality Engineering Lead

amratya01@outlook.com
+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

  1. SAP SE

    11.2021 – Present
    Program Lead & Quality Engineering Lead
    Hamburg, Germany

    Dual 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.
  2. Contorion GmbH

    12.2017 – 10.2021
    Software Quality Assurance Engineer
    Berlin, 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.
  3. PaxLife GmbH

    08.2017 – 11.2017
    Software Quality Assurance Analyst
    Potsdam, 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.
  4. IBM

    06.2016 – 08.2017
    Test Specialist
    Cairo, 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.
  5. TEData

    09.2012 – 06.2016
    QA Specialist
    Cairo, 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

  1. Bachelor of Science in Computer and Systems Engineering
    Akhbar El Yom Academy, Cairo, Egypt
    2005–2010