SOHAIL FAROOQ
QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER
Extremely focused and result oriented QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER offering more than 20+ years exclusive experience on factory management in apparel industry.
Experience
QA inspector
Li and Fung (Singapore ) Pte. Ltd
July 2002 – April 2005
- Responsible for Assuring quality of Garments (Knits/Woven) according to the system conducting and maintaining fabric inspection, shade band’s record, GSM record, shrinkage record, P.P meetings, Inline and Final Inspection, Compiling quality reports and Communication.
Quality Inspector
Karstadt Quelle (Far East) & Co.
Dec 1999 – June 2002
- Responsible for Assuring quality of Garments (Knits/Woven/Nylon), Home Textile (knits/woven), bath robe, towel, leather jackets, socks Inline and Final Inspection, Compiling quality reports and Communication.
Production In charge
AFS Apparel
November 1997 – November- 1999
- Handling all activities in sewing departments.
Senior Quality Assurance Supervisor
CFL Enterprise Ltd.
15-Jan-24 – 28-Feb-25
- Evaluate every sample before sending to HK office or direct to customer during sample evaluation train sample related staff how to make Zero defect samples.
- Fabric bulk shade approvals for denim and non-denim both.
- Sewing inline inspect ions and upload reports on company portal.
- During sewing inline train operators, checkers, end checkers, sewing quality & production supervisors & managers according to the styling.
- Finishing inline and upload reports to company portal.
- Conduct final inspection for every style every P.O before shipments.
- Attend VC meetings usually with HK office merchandisers, Technical team & Wet processing team and quality team for work related matters.
Quality Assurance Manager
A.R Apparels
1-Mar-2025 – 31-Jan-26
- Evaluate existing quality system.
- Find out lacking areas of existing quality system.
- Made suggestion report to make comprehensive quality assurance system.
- Started implementation of comprehensive quality assurance system.
Quality Assurance Manager
JMS TEXTILE & APPARELS
May- 2005 – Mar -2008
- Completed quality training from turkey & Turkish buyer authorized me for final audit internally and we are only one suppliers who was doing internal audits out of 148 suppliers that’s why this is my most important responsibility to do final audit internally, also buyer conceders us his gold category during two years.
- Responsible for giving all approvals of lab dips, bulk fabric, accessories, all kind of samples.
- Responsible for all quality aspects fabric inspection to finished goods pre- final and final audit
- Responsible to train all quality team as per customer’s quality standards.
- Responsible for evaluation of previous quality system and implementing new system with new designed formats;
QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER & Technical Manager
PANACHE Hong Kong (LTD)
April-2008 – Feb-2014
- To develop new products for early development stage sample engineering in order to formulate the final product type.
- Special training of quality team as per international quality standards also according to the relevant factories behaviors & cultures.
- During pre-production meeting clearly describe to the factory relevant peoples what type of customer we are going to start and what are the quality standards customer need, which A.Q.L customer required, all necessary information about customer and awareness regarding product transfer in initial stage to achieve common goal build up impressive reputation in front of customer.
- Finally conduct final or pre-final inspection to satisfaction of our own review and record if any discrepancy found about customer quality standard provide very clear instruction to the concern factory how many discrepancies they have to segregate and sorted out during rescreening of the goods if required and after segregation if result will be satisfactory then release or offer to third party inspection.
QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER
BAY CITY
Mar-2014 – April-2018
- Manage all quality matters in production of all over Pakistan for Lahore & Karachi . Individually handle all activities without QUALITY team, Products looking after as below:
- A) Knitted jackets & jerseys. B) Denim & non denim pants. C) Leather Jackets.
Quality Assurance & Technical Manager
INDUS APPAREL
Oct-2018 – 14-Jan-24
- Evaluate running quality system and according to finding create system evaluation report.
- After evaluating existing system make lacking areas and suggestion report for making quality system flawless and comprehensive.
- Conduct meetings with business managers and director to elaborate regarding existing system analysis & suggestion report.
- Conduct meetings with both business managers and their teams separately about system new requirement and support from merchandising end.
- Evaluate existing factories quality system and conduct meetings with factory higher management and give them professional guidelines how many areas have flaws and how to make your quality system flawless.
- Designed (vendor’s process assurance quality policy) and signed that document with all vendors.
- All kind of technical issues communicate with all customers’ technical team on emails and video conference calls.
- Always attend all customers’ (VC) meetings regarding all technical and social compliance matters.
Education
University of Karachi
B.com, Commerce
Karachi Board
F.Sc, Physics, Maths, Chemistry
Karachi Board
S.Sc, Science
Skills
Professional SkillsQuality assurance management · Technical management · Time & motion study and manufacturing · Industrial law · Patterns understanding & correction ability · Product safety · Development, production & finishing · Compliance management · Factory management · Productivity improvement · Client relationship command
Apparel Quality Manager
Languages
English · Fluent (Read, Write & Speak)Urdu · Fluent (Read, Write & Speak)Panjabi · Fluent (Speak only)Bengali · Fluent (Speak only)