Philosophy

At Kualitatem, QUALITY is a state of mind, it's an attitude. Where our clients lack it, we complement it.

Kualitatem believes in providing standardized, experienced and multidimensional technical support to our clients. Our flexible and seamlessly integrated frameworks make us the quality growth partners providing completely independent and unbiased measures of quality. We are poised to provide highest level of client satisfaction. Our constant struggle for enhancing our pool of knowledge and expertise is the key behind our success. We have developed research and development alliances with different organizations and institutes to build upon our resources. This helps us provide a quick response to the client problems resulting in efficient and quality solutions.

Roots of the word quality are derived from the word qualitatem in Latin. This reflects upon our philosophy of prioritizing Quality before any other parameter.

Strengths

We have learnt from number of mistakes our clients made. You have a chance to learn from us. At Kualitatem, our cardinal is Lead by Education. Our key strengths include:

• Singular platform for entire software QA lifecycle service
• Provides fastest conversion from code to product
• 100% Testing Focus in HR Intake
• Ongoing R&D on Benchmarks, Standards and Processes
• Rich Service Frameworks, Tools and Partner Ecosystem
• Multiple and Seamless Ways to Engage & Serve Customers
• Use of Open Source Technologies to reduce cost and minimize inefficiencies

Value Addition for Clients

Kualitatem believes in client satisfaction as a key to business growth. We closely work with our clients to thoroughly understand various project goals, milestones and deliverables to generate successful outcomes with guaranteed quality.

• Singular platform for all their QA needs
• Independent testing environment from production environment
• Highest Client Visibility and Control
• educed time to market with a specialized testing team

Advisors

Mr. Abdul Razzak Dawood

Mr. A. Razzak Dawood is the Chairman Pakistan Business Council and Managing Director of Descon Engineering Limited and six other private companies. He has worked as Managing Director of Lawrencepur Textile Mills and Dawood Hercules Chemicals Limited. He is also a Director of United Refrigeration Industries (pvt) Limited. He was a visiting professor of Department of Business Administration at the University of Punjab, Management Association of Pakistan; Member Syndicate, the University of Punjab as well as member Senate, University of Punjab; Member, Board of Studies, Institute of Chemical Engineering and Technology and Director of Pakistan International Airlines. He was also the Federal Commerce Minister for four years in the first cabinet of General Pervez Musharraf. Mr. Razzak Dawood has been an active philanthropist and at present he is the Rector, Lahore University of Management Sciences to which his family has donated generously; Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, National Management Foundation; Member, Board of Governors, Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital and Research Centre. Mr. Dawood is a BSc. Mining Engineering from England and MBA Columbia University, USA.

Mr. Jamal Arif
MBA, University of Oregon USA

Jamal Arif has a career spanning over 30 years in the field of marketing and sales of electronics and hardware in USA. He has worked with top brands like Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu Electronics, Hynix, Mitsubishi Electronics, AMI and National Semiconductors and Hitachi Electronics. His roles included identifying market opportunities, developing and executing marketing and sales strategies, recruiting and working with channel partners and developing business partnerships. He has a track record of significantly boosting unit sales in fiercely competitive and down market through his strategies. Mr. Arif currently lectures at Lahore University of Management and Sciences as a visiting professor. He holds an MBA from University of Oregon USA, business diploma from Curtin University Australia and undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from UET Lahore. Mr. Arif was also a visiting scholar at Harvard University, USA.

Mr. Waleed Iqbal
LLM, Harvard Law School USA

Waleed Iqbal graduated from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (B.S.Econ.), University of Cambridge (M. Phil.), University of Punjab (LL.B.) (Gold Medalist) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.). Before joining the firm, Walid Iqbal worked at two leading international law firms, Sullivan & Cromwell (from 1997 to 2001) and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer (from 2001 to 2004). He specialises in corporate and project finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. He is admitted to practice in New York and Pakistan, and is also admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of England and Wales. He is also a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators (AIPN). He is currently advising Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in Deutsche Telekom's multi-currency, multitranche global debt offering of US$ 14.6 billion; advising International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in the project financing of the wireless telecommunications service provider Sonic Duo; advising Groupe Danone in its acquisition of Chock & Rolls Company, the Russian manufacturing subsidiary of Chupa Chups S.A., through a combined share and asset acquisition; and advising the Yukos Group in its acquisition of a majority shareholding in Arctic Gas Company from Benton Oil and Gas Company.

Mr. Zahoor Hassan
PhD, Stanford University

Dr. Hassan has played a pivotal role in developing LUMS from an infant to a world class prestigious institute. His research interests include Information systems development methodologies, global software development, information technology utilization effectiveness, and management of technology. He is a strong supporter of new entrepreneurial ventures bringing innovative technology for use of masses. He has an MS, PhD and a management degree from Stanford and is currently acting as a Vice Chancellor of LUMS.

Leadership

Muhammad Jamil A. Goheer
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
jamil[at]kualitatem.com

Muhammad Jamil A. Goheer founded Kualitatem in 2006 and has played a key role in taking it from a startup to an award winning software QA services enterprise. Prior to Kualitatem, Jamil was involved in a speech technology startup and a social enterprise where he developed the ideas into business models and strategically made them sustainable. He has also worked on different projects with organizations like Nike Inc, United Nations Development Program, GTZ, Canadian International Development Agency, Responsible Business Initiative, The Foundation for Development Cooperation Australia etc. He was a pioneer research team member with Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (www.crulp.org) where his work in speech and signal processing was credited in international conference and journal publications. Jamil is a fellow with Diplo Foundaton where he has completed a course work and policy research in the area of Internet Governance. He holds an undergraduate degree in software and a graduate degree in information systems management. He is also a certified information system auditor (CISA), a certification by Information Systems Audit and Control Association, USA (ISACA). Jamil is passionate about technology entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship and Internet governance.

Khurram Javed Mir
Co-Founder and Chief Marketing Officer
khurram[at]kualitatem.com

Khurram Javed Mir is leading the marketing and QA team with his extensive QA expertise. He has worked as a QA expert for more than 6 years with a wide portfolio in quality assurance activities. He has successfully completed various projects of assuring quality of web and mobile applications and has experience of known problems and dilemmas faced by QA departments. His skill set spans from requirement verification and validation, design time controls and test plans, writing test cases, generating test reports and bug reports and conducting audits. He is also trained on CMM and CMMi level implementations and QA. Mr. Mir has done his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from FAST and his MBA from LUMS. He has also attended conferences conducted by National Institute of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Pakistan) and Harvard University (USA).

Walter Croce
VP Business Development, North America
walter.croce[at]kualitatem.com

Walter Croce is leading the business development and corporate communication in North America. Walter has experience in the semiconductor industry, in the areas of technology research, design, applications support, business development and marketing management. He has spent last 12 years on inbound and outbound semiconductor IP licensing, working for companies like LSI, Infineon, Virage Logic and MoSys. He participated in the negotiation and closing of multi-million dollar agreements with Infineon, Nintendo, Fujitsu and TSMC. He spent a year with Zilog as a DSP Product Line Director. He also spent 17 years with National Semiconductor Corporations, in various positions in Latin America and the U.S. He is also the Owner of Cognitive Consulting.

Partners

Lahore University of Management Sciences
The Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) is a national university, established by sponsors belonging to the country's leading private and public sector corporations. The goal of the sponsors was to develop an institution, which would provide rigorous academic and intellectual training and a viable alternative to education comparable to leading universities around the world. While turning into a leading academic institute LUMS is striving to be the pre-eminent academic institution, serving as a catalyst for economic prosperity and social development with a focus on management of resources. LUMS support their students to take initiatives that can result in a meaningful contribution towards society and nation.
Visit LUMS Website: www.lums.edu.pk

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences is sponsored by Foundation for Advancement of Science and Technology (FAST) established in 1980. It is registered with the Government of Pakistan as a charitable institution. In 1985, it selected higher education as a vehicle to pursue its objective of producing scientists and technologists of the highest caliber. FAST pioneered the development of IT industry in Pakistan by offering the country's first undergraduate program in Computer Science. Today, this University, sponsored by FAST, stands recognized as the leader and trend-setter in this field in Pakistan.
Visit NU's Website: www.nu.edu.pk

National University of Science and Technology
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) was established by the Government of Pakistan in 1991 for the promotion of higher scientific education in the country, especially in the field of sciences and technology, by providing stable and disciplined academic environment together with a need based research opportunities pertinent to our industrial requirements. NUST is the first model university established by the Ministry of Science and Technology like KAIST of Korea. The university was granted the Charter in 1993. Besides covering a wide variety of engineering disciplines, the horizon of NUST covers (but does not limit to) information technology, medical, management sciences and basic sciences.
Visit NUST's Website: www.nust.edu.pk