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Faizan Qureshi

Senior QA / Automation Engineer

Pune, India • +91 98220 64709 • faizan.qureshi.qa@hey.com • linkedin.com/in/faizan-qureshi-qa • github.com/faizanq

Portfolio: www.eliorexa.com/portfolio/qa-automation-engineer-mid

Professional Summary

Automation engineer with 5 years owning test coverage for SaaS and fintech products. Builds and scales Cypress, Playwright and Selenium frameworks, drives API testing with REST Assured, and integrates suites into CI/CD so regressions never reach production. Balances manual exploratory testing with automation, manages defects end to end in JIRA, and mentors juniors on test strategy. Measures success in escaped defects, release speed and flake rate.

Skills

Automation frameworks: Cypress, Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Pytest, WebdriverIO

API & performance: REST Assured, Postman, API testing, JMeter, k6, Contract testing

CI/CD & tooling: GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Docker, JIRA, Xray / Zephyr, Allure reporting

Practices: Test strategy, Risk-based testing, BDD (Cucumber), Agile/Scrum, Code review, Mentoring

Core Competencies

Selenium · Cypress · Playwright · test automation · API testing · REST Assured · JIRA · CI/CD · test strategy · regression testing · BDD · mentoring

Work Experience

Senior QA Automation Engineer — Klariti Payments (Series B fintech)

Aug 2022 – Present

Pune

  • Own the automation framework (Playwright + TypeScript) for the merchant dashboard, growing end-to-end coverage from 22% to 78% across 340+ scenarios.
  • Cut the regression cycle from 2 days of manual effort to a 35-minute automated run in CI, accelerating the release cadence from monthly to weekly.
  • Caught 210+ defects pre-release in the last year, reducing production escapes 64% and saving an estimated ₹18L in incident and rollback costs.
  • Built a REST Assured API suite of 120 contract tests gating every deploy, and slashed suite flakiness from 11% to under 2% with smart waits and retries.
  • Mentor 3 junior testers on test strategy and the Page Object Model, and run the team's defect-triage and JIRA workflow.

QA Automation Engineer — Brightwave SaaS

Jul 2020 – Jul 2022

Remote

  • Migrated a brittle Selenium suite to Cypress, reducing average test run time 47% and eliminating the team's top source of CI flakiness.
  • Introduced a BDD layer with Cucumber so product and QA shared living specs, lifting requirement coverage and cutting clarification cycles 30%.
  • Automated cross-browser smoke checks on every pull request via GitHub Actions, blocking 40+ regressions from reaching staging.

Projects

FlakeGuard — test stability toolkit — −80% false reds

Internal utility that quarantines and reports flaky tests across CI runs.

  • Authored a flake-detection script that tags intermittent failures and trends them, cutting false-red builds 80% and protecting team trust in CI.

Tech: Playwright, CI/CD, Test strategy

Interactive 3D Portfolio

WebGL portfolio built on Eliorexa, linked from this résumé.

  • Reactive three.js hero with scroll-driven sections, lazy-loaded and reduced-motion safe — and covered by its own Playwright visual checks.

Tech: three.js, Playwright, Performance

Education

B.Tech Information Technology

2020

Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune

First Class

Certifications

  • ISTQB Advanced Level — Test Automation Engineer — ISTQB (2023)
  • Certified Selenium Professional — Simplilearn (2021)