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KASHI SAGIRI

Leeds

Summary

Experienced and detail-oriented Senior QA Automation Engineer with over 14 years of expertise in manual and automated software testing across Agile environments. Adept at building scalable automation frameworks, managing end-to-end testing processes, and leading quality assurance initiatives. Strong management skills in mentoring QA professionals and effectively managing both onshore and offshore teams. Known for being proactive, technically strong, and a collaborative team player with a passion for innovation and process improvement.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Sky Plc
08.2021 - Current
  • Writing and maintaining gauge specifications, with step implementations written in Java, for integration and end-end test pipelines.
  • Define QA strategies, automation methodologies, tools, and best practices to drive test efficiency and reliability.
  • Organize QA Chapterships across 4 teams to discuss challenges, share knowledge, and improve testing strategies.
  • Build, execute and maintain test suites on Postman / Insomnia / Bruno tools for back-end API testing.
  • Being part of in-hours and out of hours support team for incident resolution.
  • Collaborated with development teams to identify and prioritize test cases based on risk and impact.
  • Spearheaded regression testing and analyzed test results, ensuring timely defect identification and resolution.

Lead QA Engineer

FinancialForce (now Certinia)
03.2018 - 07.2021
  • Lead quality initiatives, creating how-to guides and best practices documentation for team adoption.
  • Develop and maintain end-to-end test automation scripts across product portfolios, ensuring robust test coverage.
  • Automate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins/BlueOcean), monitor daily builds, and ensure immediate resolution of failures.
  • Write Groovy scripts to set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines, ensuring seamless test integration.
  • Collaborate with development teams, writing Apex and JavaScript code.
  • Participate in architecture meetings with Engineering Managers & Tech Leads to prioritize technical debt and backlog.
  • Organize QA forums to discuss challenges, share knowledge, and improve testing strategies.
  • Contribute to the Quality Council, proposing and implementing new quality initiatives.
  • Evaluate and propose new testing tools, conducting trials, creating guides, and presenting findings.
  • Lead Tester Scrum of Scrums, ensuring consistent QA practices across 7 teams within one product.
  • Oversee release management, preparing test runs, coordinating teams, and ensuring on-time delivery.

QA Automation Engineer

FinancialForce (now Certinia)
10.2010 - 02.2018
  • Attending daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
  • Performing manual and automation testing using salesforce platform.
  • Testing third-party client side UI called Sencha using Selenium webdriver.
  • Participating in tester scrum of scrums, writing and encouraging agenda and following up with actions and ensuring they are met with target dates.
  • Webservice and API Testing using Soap UI.
  • Ability to raise defects and issues confidently with the team, understand root cause where possible and follow the defect through to resolution.
  • Driving quality deliverables through automation including tools, process, measurement, environment and data.
  • Designing and writing automation scripts, for system tests in Apex and frontend UI tests in Java using Selenium Webdriver.

Software Engineer

EpiGenesys (University of Sheffield)
09.2008 - 01.2010
  • Company Overview: EpiGenesys, a student-run company at the University of Sheffield that delivers Agile software solutions.
  • I worked at EpiGenesys, a student-run company at the University of Sheffield that delivers Agile software solutions. As part of the team, I contributed to the ELTC (English Language Teaching Centre) project, developing an online timetable system for the Department of English Language.
  • Developed and maintained web-based applications using PHP, MySQL, and the Trax MVC framework.
  • Analyzed business and technical challenges, proposed strategic improvements, and ensured seamless technology implementation.
  • EpiGenesys, a student-run company at the University of Sheffield that delivers Agile software solutions.

Education

Master - Advanced Software Engineering

University of Sheffield
01.2011

Bachelor of Engineering -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universtiy
05.2007

Skills

  • Test Automation
  • Automation Framework Design
  • Team Leadership & Mentoring
  • Agile/Scrum Methodologies
  • CI/CD Integration
  • Test Cases & Reports
  • Regression testing
  • API Testing
  • Release & Quality Management
  • Debugging & Defect Tracking
  • Cross-Browser & Cross-Platform Testing

Certification

  • ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing
  • Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Master

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Sky Plc
08.2021 - Current

Lead QA Engineer

FinancialForce (now Certinia)
03.2018 - 07.2021

QA Automation Engineer

FinancialForce (now Certinia)
10.2010 - 02.2018

Software Engineer

EpiGenesys (University of Sheffield)
09.2008 - 01.2010

Master - Advanced Software Engineering

University of Sheffield

Bachelor of Engineering -

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological Universtiy

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