Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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References
Additional Role & Responsibilities
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SAAD AHMED

Karachi,Pakistan

Summary

Experienced Software QA Engineer with over 5 years of experience specializing in creating efficient and reliable automated test scripts for Web, Mobile, and API Automation using frameworks such as TestNG and BDD. Proficient in Java, JS, C#, Php, and Python languages, ensuring seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines. Recognized for enhancing software quality and reducing testing time through strategic automation practices. Collaborative team member who easily adapts to changing project requirements, dedicated to identifying and resolving potential issues proactively. Strong communication skills and a commitment to continuous learning drive passion for ensuring the highest quality software products.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Pixeldge
05.2023 - Current
  • Working within a team of 20+ engineers distributed in two Scrum teams across the globe including a team of 7 QA engineers.
  • Ensuring the overall quality of ETL-based applications for the supply chain domain.
  • Validation of extracted data and data integration pipelines.
  • Validating a mobile app (Android or IOS) for its functionality and usability before it released publicly.
  • Writing and execution of the test cases on Selenium with Java and BDD framework.
  • Writing and execution of the test cases on SpecFlow for the DotNet framework based projects.
  • Sign-off Owner for every release cycle and quality guardian of every running environment.
  • Created and optimized complex JMeter test scripts for load, stress, endurance, and capacity testing also automated tests for CI/CD pipelines.
  • Designed, developed, and implemented end-to-end RPA solutions for various business processes, including data entry, invoice processing, and report generation.
  • Requirement analysis, discussion with the design team, and mock validation before handover to the development team.
  • Integrated automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps.
  • Additional Role - As Experience Analyst, helping PO/PM in the smooth execution of the scrum process, conducting dailies/retros, and resolving dependencies/conflicts if any within teams.
  • As QA Lead of my team, Handling release Sign-offs, Managing Customer queries, and participating in War rooms for production issues.

Test Automation Engineer

Northstar
01.2021 - 04.2023
  • Building Selenium (TestNG) framework with Java and Integrated Jenkins for CI/CD.
  • Automated tests for Smoke, Feature and Regression testing. And also automated tests for Performance testing on JMeter.
  • Initiated different quality measures i.e., effectively used Jenkins to execute automation scripts which helped in reducing manual efforts.
  • Desktop application automation on Robot framework using UiPath.
  • Collaborating with the client's QA team and helping them to understand the flows.
  • Manual testing for web application along with its mobile app to ensure application quality.

Junior SQA Engineer

Symmetry Groups
01.2020 - 12.2020
  • Conducted functional and regression testing of web applications using manual and automated tests by tools such as Testim/Cypress.
  • Developed and executed test cases, test plans, and test scripts, and reported defects using bug-tracking tools like JIRA and GitLab.
  • Contributed to the development and maintenance of automated testing frameworks and test suites using Selenium WebDriver with Java and Maven along with TestNG framework.
  • Created and maintained test data sets, and performed database testing using SQL queries and tools such as MySQL Workbench and DBeaver.
  • Conducted exploratory testing and user acceptance testing (UAT) to ensure that software products meet user requirements and expectations.
  • Continuously improved testing processes by identifying and implementing enhancements to improve testing efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of software products.

Education

Bachelors - Software Engineering

Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology
Karachi, SD
01.2020

Skills

  • Good Communication Skills
  • Organized and Proactive
  • Excellent Conceptual and Analytical Skills
  • Effective Interpersonal Skills
  • Critical Thinker and Quick Learner
  • Problem Solving and Team Player
  • Selenium
  • SQL
  • Agile methodology
  • Load and performance testing
  • Experience with JIRA
  • Cross-browser testing
  • Comprehensive testing frameworks
  • Proficient in Java, C#
  • Debugging
  • Version control systems
  • Object-oriented programming
  • CI/CD Jenkins
  • Appium
  • Rest Assured
  • Postman
  • TestNG, BDD
  • Black Box Testing
  • Cypress
  • Playwright

Certification

  • Lean Six Sigma & RPA Dynamics
  • 10Pearls Selenium certified
  • IELTS (2022)

LANGUAGES

English
Urdu

References

References available upon request.

Additional Role & Responsibilities

  • Training junior SQA resources, and mentoring them to set up and achieve their short-term and long-term goals.
  • Research and planning of OKRs for the QA vertical.
  • Training and conducting Mock tests for junior QA resources for Client Interviews.
  • Actively participating in the QA hiring process i.e. shortlisting candidates, conducting QA interviews, and onboarding new resources.

Timeline

Senior Test Automation Engineer

Pixeldge
05.2023 - Current

Test Automation Engineer

Northstar
01.2021 - 04.2023

Junior SQA Engineer

Symmetry Groups
01.2020 - 12.2020

Bachelors - Software Engineering

Sir Syed University of Engineering & Technology
SAAD AHMED