Open to opportunities Islamabad, Pakistan

Quality
Assurance
Engineer

QA Engineer with 6+ years across manual testing, test case design, and defect management — translating requirements into thorough test coverage and tracking bugs through to resolution, in close collaboration with developers.

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Syeda Malka
6+
YEARS
Syeda MalkaIslamabad, Pakistan
[ 01 ] About

I test software before it reaches your users — so what ships is something people can rely on.

Six years across four teams — from a Rawalpindi startup to a US-remote SaaS platform — moving between manual test design and Cypress/Playwright automation as each project needed. Comfortable owning quality end to end: reading requirements, writing the test cases, running the regression cycle, and following defects through to a verified fix.

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Six years, four teams

Manual and automated QA across startups and a US-remote SaaS platform, in close collaboration with developers and product.

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Finds what others miss

Cross-module and network-resilience testing — throttling, API blocking — to surface integration failures before release.

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Automation that lasts

450+ Cypress/Playwright cases running daily against production and staging, wired into CI/CD.

[ 02 ] Experience
Where I've worked تجربہ

Dec 2025 — Sep 2026
SearchAtlas · United States (Remote)
Quality Assurance Engineer
  • Designed and maintained a Cypress and Playwright e2e suite — 450+ cases, 150+ negative tests — running daily against production and staging.
  • Translated business and functional requirements into automated test scenarios, documenting test logic and expected behavior for product and dev teams.
  • Ran cross-module and network-resilience testing (throttling, API blocking) across a 9-tool white-label platform to surface integration risk.
  • Wrote and fixed TypeScript/React code directly, shipping verified Git merge requests.
  • Correlated defects with Sentry/Grafana metrics; integrated automated suites into GitHub Actions and GitLab CI.
Sep 2024 — Oct 2025
DataHub · United States (Remote)
Quality Assurance Engineer
  • Prepared and executed manual test cases from user stories and requirements, ensuring accurate coverage for assigned modules.
  • Ran sanity and smoke testing, logging and tracking defects while working closely with developers to verify fixes.
Apr 2022 — Sep 2024
Red Buffer · Pakistan
Quality Assurance Engineer
  • Designed test cases directly from user stories and requirements, working with developers in Agile sprints to verify fixes before release.
Jul 2020 — Mar 2022
NIW (Pvt) Ltd · Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Quality Assurance Engineer
  • Built and maintained test plans and cases in Agile environments — functional, regression, and system-level testing.
  • Performed manual testing to identify and report bugs, collaborating with developers to verify fixes.
[ 03 ] Projects
Selected work

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BUILT FROM SCRATCH
Black-Box Automated QA System
QA Engineer — Test Architecture

A Playwright test system covering API, UI, database, and end-to-end suites — 322+ cases — built with no codebase access, working entirely against production through credentials and read-only DB access. A custom reporter classifies every failure as app bug, test bug, flaky, or infra, with severity attached.

PlaywrightBlack-box QACustom reporting
/ 02 ◈
PRODUCTION QA
LLM Visibility Dashboard QA
QA Engineer

Ongoing production QA on a tool that tracks brand presence in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Filed and verified structured bug tickets for data-integrity issues — inconsistent scores across widgets, aggregate-vs-detail discrepancies, and credit-consumption anomalies.

Data integrityDashboard QALinear
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COMPLIANCE QA
White-Label Platform QA
QA Engineer

Branding-compliance and integrations QA on a white-label SaaS surface built from a larger parent platform. Traced recurring branding leaks to their root cause upstream and proposed a release-review process to catch them earlier.

ComplianceIntegrations QAStakeholder comms
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PUBLISHED · GOOGLE PLAY
Habit Tracker — Android
Developer · ★ 5.0 (17 reviews)

Built and published an Android habit-tracking app end to end, then rebuilt it from scratch in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose after losing the original project to an SSD failure. Weekly/monthly/yearly views, home-screen widgets, and custom categories.

KotlinJetpack ComposeGoogle Play
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PUBLISHED · GOOGLE PLAY
DietPlan — Android
Developer · ★ 5.0 (16 reviews)

A 13-day structured meal-planning app with daily meal suggestions, a categorized shopping list, and a food-substitution guide — works fully offline with no account or data collection.

AndroidOffline-firstGoogle Play
[ 04 ] Skills
Craft & tools مہارت

Manual testing

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Test case designFunctionalRegressionIntegrationSystemCross-moduleSanity / smoke

Bug tracking

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Defect identificationTrackingResolution verificationRoot-cause analysisStructured reports

QA process

03
Requirements analysisTest scenario docsAgile / Scrum

Automation

04
CypressPlaywrightSeleniumTypeScriptJavaScriptGherkin / BDD

Languages & tools

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SQLPythonGitPostmanJMeter

"A good tester finds bugs. A great one prevents them."

[ 05 ] Education
Education تعلیم

🎓2017 — 2020
Master's in Computer Software Engineering
University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar · GPA 3.78/4
Thesis: Sentiment Analysis Based on Abbreviations in a Text
🎓2013 — 2017
Bachelor of Computer Software Engineering
University of Engineering & Technology, Peshawar · GPA 3.26/4
CERTIFICATIONS
  • Google Advanced Data Analytics Professional Certificate Google · Coursera · Nov 2024
  • Data Analytics and Business Intelligence DigiSkills · Virtual University Pakistan · Jul 2024
  • Artificial Intelligence, Data Science & Blockchain NAVTTC · Dec 2024
  • Machine Learning Stanford University · Coursera · Jul 2023
IELTS Overall: Band 7.5 · CEFR C1
Listening
8.5
Reading
7.0
Writing
6.5
Speaking
7.0
SPOKEN LANGUAGES
UrduPashtoPersianEnglish
[ 06 ] Contact
Let's build something reliable.

Looking for a QA engineer who treats your product like her own? I'm currently open to new roles — my inbox is always open to talk about how I can help your team ship with confidence.