SHAHARYAR AMJAD

QA Automation Engineer

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Professional experience

UK Work Experience Placement

• •Built a Cypress UI automation framework from scratch for an Electronic Medical Records platform, covering critical patient-data workflows, using JavaScript, BDD/Cucumber, and Page Object Model.
• •Improved test maintainability and reusability across the suite by refactoring to modular Page Objects, Step Definitions, and Feature Files, using Git-managed environment configurations.
• •Enabled automated QA reporting by building Power BI dashboards for test coverage and defect metrics, using Power Query and DAX on Excel-sourced test data.

Managed automated testing operations for multi-module web applications, focusing on building and scaling UI frameworks and CI/CD pipeline integration.

• •Designed a scalable Cypress UI automation framework using JavaScript, POM, and Cucumber, resulting in a 40% increase in regression test coverage.
• •Developed and executed over 100 automated UI test cases across functional, smoke, integration, and E2E testing, reducing manual testing effort by 30%.

Reported to the quality assurance lead within a development team environment. Performed manual and automated user interface testing while verifying backend service integration and supporting continuous integration workflows.

• •Validated core functional workflows by creating and executing manual and automated UI test cases using Selenium in 2022.
• •Verified backend service integration correctness by performing REST API testing and endpoint validation using Postman during the 05 to 10 months.
• •Shortened defect resolution cycles by supporting Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and logging issues through JIRA.

Executed software quality assurance workflows inside remote engineering squads, maintaining testing frameworks and continuous integration pipelines for distributed web applications.

• •Increased regression test coverage by 40% through designing a scalable Cypress UI automation framework for multi-module web applications using JavaScript, POM, and Cucumber.
• •Reduced manual testing effort by 30% by developing and executing 100+ automated UI test cases across functional, smoke, integration, and E2E testing.
• •Accelerated release validation by integrating automated suites into Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD pipelines, using JIRA and TestRail for defect tracking and root cause analysis.

• •Validated core functional workflows by creating and executing 50+ manual and automated UI test cases using Selenium.
• •Verified backend service integration correctness by performing REST API testing and endpoint validation using Postman.

Projects

Optimized CI/CD efficiency by architecting a reusable Cypress framework with data-driven and parallel test execution across multi-module business workflows. Improved coverage clarity by authoring Gherkin feature files and handling advanced UI interactions (popups, alerts, iframes), using BDD step definitions.

Improved extraction accuracy by running Regex, pre-trained NLP models (spaCy, StarPII), and a RAG+LLM pipeline in parallel per module, using Python and the Together.ai API. Ensured safe evidence processing by building a pre-extraction malware/virus sanitization layer, using Python and BeautifulSoup.

Education

Cyber Security and Digital Forensics

• Master’s in Cyber Security and Digital Forensics – Distinction (Grade: A) Huddersfield, UK

Computer Science

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science Karachi, Pakistan

Certifications