Ali Raza

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Lahore, Pakistan·9 years experience

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About

Ali Raza is a Senior QA Automation Engineer and Test Architect with extensive experience in designing scalable automation strategies and frameworks. He possesses over 9 years of expertise in enterprise web, API, desktop, fintech, airline, crypto, and SaaS products, specializing in test architecture and QA leadership. He is adept at owning quality initiatives from test strategy to framework implementation, driving significant improvements in testing efficiency and coverage. He seeks challenging roles where he can leverage his comprehensive QA expertise to enhance product quality and streamline

Experience

QA Automation Consultant

Nov 2024 – Oct 2026 · 1 yr 11 mos

Crunchafi

Led framework architecture for Python, Selenium, Playwright, and Requests automation.
Designed reusable automation workflows and deployed execution infrastructure on Linux servers.
Trained and mentored 2 senior resources on framework setup and workflows.

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Mar 2023 – Oct 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

Calrom

Automated airline booking workflows with Selenium, SpecFlow, and C#, reducing manual effort by 60%.
Developed Cypress/TypeScript automation with mocked APIs, reducing execution time by 40%.
Streamlined Azure Pipelines test execution, reducing deployment time by 35%.

SQA Automation Engineer

Oct 2019 – Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Developers Studio

Built reusable Selenium/C# frameworks with NUnit, reducing manual testing effort by 60%.
Automated financial API operations with REST Assured, increasing API validation coverage by 50%.
Developed Selenium automation using Cucumber for fintech and crypto-wallet products.

SQA Engineer

Feb 2017 – Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Zultron Consulting

Built Cypress automation frameworks, reducing UI and API regression time by 70%.
Developed Selenium/TestNG frameworks with REST Assured, improving testing efficiency by 60%.
Performed functional, regression, and API testing across web and service workflows.

Skills

DevOps & Cloud

CI/CDCloudInfrastructure

Automation & Testing

Automation architectureUI AutomationMobile AutomationCross-browser testingAPI TestingService TestingContract testingConsumer-driven contract testing

Test Strategy & Leadership

Test ArchitectureQA LeadershipTest strategyRisk-based testingQuality gatesRelease readinessMentoringStakeholder communicationQA process improvement

Test ArchitectureQA LeadershipAutomation ArchitectureCI/CDAPI TestingUI Automation

Languages

English (Professional working proficiency)

Education & Certifications

B.S. in Electronics and Communication Engineering

The University of Lahore

Playwright Automation Testing from Scratch with Framework

Next Level API Testing: Contract Testing for Microservices

JMeter Performance Testing

REST API Testing with REST Assured Java

Cucumber with Java

Selenium WebDriver with Java

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