QA Lead · India · Open to new roles

Jackson
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Someone who

12+ years building automation frameworks from scratch, leading QA teams, and shipping production-grade test infrastructure across fintech, marketplace, and SaaS, with a strong focus on using AI in a practical way to improve decision-making, strengthen quality strategy, and help teams move faster with clarity.

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flow-e2e — playwright test

Playwright TypeScript Selenium REST Assured Apache JMeter GCP GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions Cloudflare Workers JSONata Docker Team Leadership Microservices Playwright TypeScript Selenium REST Assured Apache JMeter GCP GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions Cloudflare Workers JSONata Docker Team Leadership Microservices

By the numbers

Impact at a glance

Real metrics from real work — not buzzwords.

Years in QA & Engineering

From Junior QA to leading 5-person teams and shipping solo frameworks — across fintech, restaurant tech, real estate, and marketplace.

Platforms in Flow

58+ active migration listings validated by the E2E framework — catalog actively growing.

Req/sec Peak Load

JMeter load tests — 3 bottlenecks found, all sub-200ms at peak.

Reduction in Manual Testing

Hybrid automation framework at Explorex Technologies — drove a 25% increase in release frequency alongside the reduction.

API Test Coverage

50+ critical defects caught pre-release — 40% fewer production incidents.

Sprint Velocity Boost

Daily standups for 20+ engineers — 20 → 26 story points/sprint over 3 months.

Regression Testing Time Reduced

Selenium POM framework at Explorex — test execution efficiency improved by 85%, enabling faster regression cycles across every release.

Automated Tests (Regression)

247 tests, 0 failures in full regression suite — TestNG + CI/CD integrated.

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SOA Migration Performance Gain

35% infrastructure cost reduction, zero data loss, 100% backward compatibility — validated via Rest Assured CI/CD.

Tech & Tools

What I work with

Across automation, leadership, API testing, cloud, and DevOps.

Leadership

Team Leadership Team Building Mentoring Onboarding Perf Management

Automation

Playwright Selenium (Java) TypeScript TestNG Cucumber / BDD

API Testing

Rest Assured Postman Microservices

E2E Design

Page Object Model PW Fixtures Schema-Driven Gen Delta Validation SFTP Automation

Cloud / DevOps

GCP GitLab CI/CD GitHub Actions Cloudflare Workers Docker

Tools

Apache JMeter Power Automate

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Career highlights

Work that shipped

Real projects across LinkToAny, Explorex, Broker Network, and Housing.com — each tied to measurable outcomes.

Flow Marketplace E2E

LinkToAny · TypeScript · Playwright

38 platforms · 58+ listings

Built from scratch — schema-driven contract testing via Zod with live JSONata rule validation.

Dual migration paths: file-based CSV + S3 and API-based OAuth sync, auto-selected by source config.

Slack bot on Cloudflare Workers — on-demand + scheduled GitLab CI triggers with per-channel access control.

PayPal Payout Validation

LinkToAny · TypeScript · Financial QA

100% KPI accuracy contract

Independently recalculates all expected KPIs — fees, debit/credit aggregation, per-merchant rollups.

Before/after delta validation: captures KPI snapshots pre-upload, asserts net change matches CSV-computed delta.

Clover ↔ Shopify Sync

LinkToAny · Webhooks · HMAC

HMAC signed webhook tests

Generates and injects HMAC-signed payloads from both platforms to simulate real production events.

Covers control-plane (health checks, retry, initial sync) and data-plane (items, customers, inventory, orders).

SOA Migration Testing

Explorex · Rest Assured · Java · CI/CD

2× performance improvement

Led ~1 year migration testing effort — zero data loss, 100% backward compatibility, 35% infra cost reduction.

Automated Rest Assured API test scripts integrated into CI/CD — ran on every deployment.

Selenium Java Framework

Explorex · Selenium · Java · TestNG

85%

85% regression time reduced

POM architecture — built QA team from 0 to 5, cut manual effort 60%, released 25% more frequently.

247 regression tests, 0 failures — covering Inventory, Digital Dine-In, and Partner Portal.

JMeter Load Testing

Explorex · Apache JMeter · Performance

5,000+ req/sec peak load

Identified 3 major bottlenecks under simulated peak traffic — all resolved to sub-200ms response times.

Load, stress, and spike testing across critical backend API surfaces.

Android App QA

Broker Network · Android · Device Lab

✓ Android 9

✓ Android 12

✓ Android 15

30+ devices in device lab

Tested app across 30+ devices and 10+ Android OS versions — varying screen sizes and network conditions.

500+ test cases covering functional, performance, security, and usability — reduced defects by 20%.

Housing.com · Ops Leadership

Operations Team Lead · Real Estate Platform

15%

20%

15+ analysts led · Mumbai

Led a 15+ member ops team — streamlined property listing workflows, cutting processing time 15% and error rates 20%.

Transitioned into the tech team as QA Engineer — automated property activation workflows and applied ops domain knowledge to quality processes.

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