Samir Jamil
Enfield
Summary
Experienced in steering quality assurance, with focus on implementing robust testing strategies and a shift-left mindset.
Capable of driving product excellence and reliability through comprehensive QA testing and process refinement.
Skilled in automating tests, problem-solving, and collaborating cross-functionally to meet stringent quality standards.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Senior QA Engineer
Foundry
London
01.2022 - Current
- Took full ownership of testing pre-production software used by global entertainment industry leaders, ensuring quality, reliability and performance is up to standard.
- Helped build and maintain quick and reliable front end and back end automated testing frameworks that drastically reduced manual testing
- Adopted a shift-left mindset and introduced testing earlier using CI/CD tools
- Continuously sought to improve all QA methodologies by leading various innovation meetings and documenting all processes
- Collaborated with wider engineering and product management teams to gather comprehensive requirements, ensure alignment on a features acceptance criteria and improve overall software quality
QA Engineer
Mkodo
London
06.2018 - 05.2021
- Tested across complete life cycle of a project, from design to delivery and release, collaborating with both front end and back end development teams
- Manual and automated testing of iOS and Android apps
- Testing bespoke API funneling middleware, which includes functionality such as Geolocation, blacklisting, whitelisting, action messages and analytics
- Cross-platform testing across a wide variety of operating systems and devices
Technology Analyst
Accenture
London
03.2017 - 07.2018
- Working with a variety of international clients, involved in Integration and System Testing phases ⋅
- Tested software used by several governmental organisations
- Helped transition mostly manual testing focused projects towards more automated processes
- Responsible for training new team members to integrate seamlessly into the team.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computing & ICT
The Open University
09.2012 - 06.2015
Skills
- Front End Automation Testing: Playwright, Cypress
- API Testing: Postman
- CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, Google Cloud Build
- Manual Testing: Exploratory, Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing
- Project Management Tools: Jira, Redmine
- Test Management Tools: TestRail
- Agile: Scrum, Kanban
- General QA Skills: Test case discovery and writing, Bug reporting and triage, Customer support, Leading QA focused meetings
Timeline
Senior QA Engineer
Foundry
01.2022 - Current
QA Engineer
Mkodo
06.2018 - 05.2021
Technology Analyst
Accenture
03.2017 - 07.2018
Bachelor of Science - Computing & ICT
The Open University
09.2012 - 06.2015
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