Awais I.

I’m a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 8+ years of experience in Manual Testing, Test Automation, API Testing, CI/CD, and quality engineering. I also build Python backend and AI-powered applications, which allows me to understand and test products from both the development and QA side. I work with startups and established teams to build reliable, scalable, and maintainable software — from test strategy and manual testing to automation frameworks, API validation, performance testing, and CI/CD integration. ### 🔹 QA & Test Automation • 7+ years of experience in Software QA, Manual Testing and Test Automation • Playwright, Pytest, Behave, Selenium, Cypress, WebdriverIO and Reqnroll/SpecFlow • Python, TypeScript and C# • UI, Functional, Regression, Integration, System, End-to-End and Exploratory Testing • Test planning, test case design, test scenarios and risk-based testing • Smoke, Sanity, Acceptance and Compatibility Testing • REST API testing and automation • Postman, API validation and automated API test suites • Request/response validation, status codes, headers, authentication and authorization testing • Positive, negative, boundary and edge-case testing • Frontend, backend and end-to-end application testing • Database testing and data validation using SQL • Cross-browser and responsive web testing • Mobile application testing and device/browser compatibility testing • Performance, load and stress testing with JMeter and Locust • Basic security testing with OWASP concepts, Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap and API security testing • WebSocket and real-time application testing • Network troubleshooting using logs, traces, HTTP/network inspection and packet-level analysis • VoIP/SIP testing concepts including SIP signaling, RTP, call flows, DTMF, call failures and media issues • CI/CD test automation with Jenkins, GitHub Actions and Bitbucket • Docker-based test environments and automation • Allure reporting, test result analysis and failure investigation • Flaky test identification, debugging and stabilization • Defect lifecycle management and root-cause analysis • Jira, TestRail and Agile/Scrum methodologies • Page Object Model, BDD, reusable test components and maintainable automation architecture ### 🔹 Python Backend Development I also develop backend applications and APIs using Python, including: • FastAPI, Django and Flask • REST APIs and backend services • API authentication, validation and integrations • MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB • SQL queries and backend data validation • Pandas, NumPy and data processing • Background jobs, automation scripts and API integrations • Docker-based development and deployment • Backend debugging, logging and error handling ### 🔹 AI & LLM Applications I have hands-on experience building and testing AI-powered applications, including: • LLM-powered chatbots and AI applications • LangChain and conversational AI • RAG-based applications • Structured LLM outputs and response validation • AI application testing and evaluation (Evals) • Prompt testing and response quality validation • Hallucination, consistency and relevance testing • AI response accuracy and regression testing • Functional testing of AI workflows and conversational systems • Machine Learning and Deep Learning • TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, Pandas and NumPy ### 🔹 What I Can Help You With ✔ Build a maintainable automation framework from scratch ✔ Design practical QA strategies and test coverage ✔ Automate UI and REST APIs using Python, Playwright and Pytest ✔ Test and validate backend APIs, integrations and databases ✔ Create BDD-based automation frameworks ✔ Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines ✔ Investigate and eliminate flaky automation tests ✔ Perform functional, regression, exploratory and integration testing ✔ Perform API, database and backend testing ✔ Perform performance and load testing with JMeter and Locust ✔ Test web applications across browsers and devices ✔ Perform basic security and API security testing ✔ Test real-time, WebSocket and communication-based applications ✔ Test and troubleshoot VoIP/SIP-based applications ✔ Test AI/LLM applications and evaluate output quality ✔ Build Python APIs and backend services with FastAPI/Django ✔ Debug application, automation and environment-related issues ✔ Improve overall application quality, reliability and test coverage I focus on practical solutions, clear communication, maintainable automation and risk-based testing. My goal is not simply to increase the number of automated tests, but to build **reliable quality processes that catch real defects and provide meaningful coverage**. If you need someone who understands both **software development and quality engineering**, I can help.