Quality is a craft,
not a checklist.
I'm Usama — a Senior SQA Engineer from Rawalpindi. Five years of shipping quality across desktop, web, and mobile products.
Career Journey ,
and Growth
From intern to team lead. Manual to automation. Desktop to mobile to multi-stakeholder web. Delivering products that actually matter
Senior SQA Automation Engineer — Team Lead
Leading a team of four across three concurrent web platforms. Owning release management, client comms, and mentorship.
- Led end-to-end QA efforts across multiple modules of Blue Ocean and ProCon, ensuring high-quality deliverables across web applications.
- Collaborated closely with developers and stakeholders to ensure requirement clarity, testability, and defect prevention in early stages.
- Validated scope-of-work extraction, analytics dashboards, and real-time tracking features in Blue Ocean for accuracy and performance.
SQA Engineer - Senior
Promoted into a senior SQA track covering complex projects. Moved from pure manual into a hybrid manual+automation role.
- Owned end-to-end QA on cross platform projects — Jira + ClickUp as system-of-record for a distributed team.
- Created and maintained manual and automated test cases based on detailed requirement specifications.
- Managed end-to-end defect lifecycle including reporting, tracking, and reproduction for faster resolution.
- Executed automation testing using Cypress, enhancing regression testing speed and reliability.
Junior SQA Engineer
Experienced in mobile and desktop products. Exploratory testing, Test-driven Testing, lots of bug-report craft.
- Contributed early in the development lifecycle to ensure testability and quality of requirements.
- Performed comprehensive functional and database testing to ensure system integrity and data accuracy.
- Wrote the team's first QA onboarding doc — still in use.
Software Test Engineer
Where it started. Giving my servies as SQA Engineer to clients on Upwork
- Manual QA on a desktop and mobile applications
- Maintaining testcases documents and following bug life cycle in STLC technique
Not a resume checklist. A self-honest map of where I operate day-to-day, where I reach for help, and where I'm actively leveling up.
Testing Craft Core
- Manual & exploratory QA95
- Test planning & scoping90
- Bug report craft95
- API testing (Postman)85
- Automation (Cypress / Playwright)82
- Mobile QA (Android / iOS)80
Leadership & Delivery Working
- Team leadership85
- Release management90
- Client & stakeholder comms88
- Agile / Scrum facilitation85
- Mentorship & coaching82
- Change & risk management80
Tools on the desk, daily.
The ones I reach for without thinking — across test authoring, API, CI/CD, databases, and the front-end I read to write better tests.
What I'm actually doing this month.
- Leading QALantro Tech
- Automating use-casesCypress · CI/CD
- Handling release managementweekly client 1:1s
- Open to new rolesSenior / Lead
Off-the-clock fuel.
- WatchingTv Series, Movies
- PlayingDota 2 / CS:Go
- Art & CraftSketches, Doodling
- Games & chainon-negotiable
Building something that has to work?
I'm open to Senior / Lead SQA roles — full-time, contract, or advisory. Especially interested in teams where QA is treated as a craft and not a gate at the end of the sprint.