Hassan A.

IT Consultant

Düsseldorf, Germany

Experience

Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 9 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

IT Consultant

ALDI Germany

DevOps and SRE:

  • Supported the DevOps team with the Terraform-managed, multi-region AWS infrastructure to achieve environment parity.
  • Developed end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy to automate builds and deployments.
  • Maintained pre- and post-deployment scripts to automate critical tasks such as database schema migrations and sanity checks.
  • Implemented a CI/CD flow specifically for hotfixes using separate Git branches, managing back-merge activities from feature branches to release branches to ensure code integrity through automated conflict resolution.
  • Deployed a lightweight sanity-check application, hosted cost-effectively on Azure Container Apps, to run automated integrity and basic functionality checks as a post-deployment activity triggered via a pipeline.
  • Responsible for investigating production issues through code changes or AWS CloudWatch logs.
  • Coordinated the integration of Dynatrace APM and APIs for monitoring purposes.

Test Automation & Team Leadership:

  • Full-stack QA strategist for a high-traffic e-commerce platform based on a layered architecture for backend testing, particularly the order management system (OMS) in the Zed and Glue layers.
  • Managed automation activities, test processes, and refactoring practices.
  • Responsible for framework migrations, setup, and training for new automation frameworks.
  • Promoted a shift-left approach within the QA team and developed the test strategy.
  • Participated in meetings with IT managers, business owners, product owners, and team members.

Tech Stack: Docker - Java - PHP - Go - Python - SQL - Redis - RabbitMQ - AWS - Dynatrace - GitLab - Codeception - Playwright - Terraform

Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
1 year 6 months
Leipzig, Germany

Head of Software QA

Twinner GmbH

Team Lead & Automation Architect:

  • Led overall quality assurance for an ERP migration project to SAP S/4HANA, focusing on ensuring data integrity and functional compliance.
  • Designed and executed complex integration and regression tests within the SAP S/4HANA environment to validate core business functions in the SAP FI and MM modules.
  • Defined and planned test scope and effort per release.
  • Managed automation, testing, and best practices for optimal efficiency and quality.
  • Mentored team members and fostered collaborative problem-solving across all QA functions.
  • Defined and planned test scope and effort per release.
  • Managed automation, testing, and best practices for optimal efficiency and quality.
  • Mentored team members and fostered collaborative problem-solving across all QA functions.
Oct 2018 - Sep 2020
2 years
Leipzig, Germany

Test Automation Engineer

Twinner GmbH

  • Built and maintained the entire test automation framework from scratch.
  • Developed and automated regression test suites.
  • Automated API tests in Postman and/or by writing Groovy scripts in SoapUI.
  • Assisted in bug tracking and reporting.
  • Responsible for developing automation strategies for GUI frameworks, API tests, end-to-end tests, and stress tests in the cloud.
  • Designed and implemented automated integration tests to validate end-to-end data flow in our microservices ecosystem and the Apache Kafka streaming platform, ensuring message schema integrity and serialization consistency.
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
2 years 5 months
Lahore, Pakistan

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Sofodynamix Solutions

  • Participated in creating and executing test cases according to system requirements.
  • Participated in bug tracking and reporting.
  • Participated in GUI, functional, regression, and system testing.
  • Designed and developed test cases for automated tests using a data-driven framework.

Summary

English Version 🇺🇸:

As an AWS-certified and ISTQB-certified professional with 9+ years of experience in cloud, software development, software quality, and test automation, I always feel excited to collaborate and share ideas with talented people.

I am an IT consultant with expertise in cloud consulting, front-end and back-end development, test automation, test management, and manual testing of applications and systems. From microservices and web application automation to performance testing and creating automation frameworks, I bring a wealth of knowledge to any team with diverse experience in API and UI automation testing and setting up CI/CD pipelines for projects using tools like GitHub Actions and Jenkins, along with Docker containers.

With experience in channel integration testing and a TDD approach, I bring a holistic perspective to UI and API automation. I have built a test automation framework from scratch with Selenium WebDriver, TestNG, Cucumber, Cypress, Postman, SoapUI, JMeter, and Rest Assured API automation testing in various projects.

German Version 🇩🇪:

As an AWS-certified and ISTQB-certified professional with over 9 years of extensive exposure and hands-on experience in cloud, software quality, and test automation, I am always excited to collaborate with talented people.

I am an IT consultant with expertise in cloud consulting, front-end/back-end development, test automation, test management, and manual testing for mobile and web applications. In various projects, I have built a test automation framework from scratch with Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, and Rest Assured API automation tests.

Overview:

  • Master’s in data science and networks from Germany.
  • AWS Certified and ISTQB Certified.
  • Experience in all phases of SDLC, bug life cycle, and Scrum.
  • Expert in Java and PHP.
  • Expert in integration tests, functional, regression, black-box, unit tests, UI tests, UAT, browser compatibility tests, smoke tests, and non-functional tests.
  • Expert in developing Java Selenium WebDriver test scripts and frameworks with TestNG and Cucumber.
  • Expert in automation with the Codeception framework using PHP.
  • Experience in writing SQL queries to extract data from various source tables for database tests.
  • Expertise in defect tracking/management using Jira, Xray, and TestRail.
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills with the ability to work independently and lead a team.
  • EU citizen.

Languages

English
Native
German
Advanced

Education

Hochschule Mittweida

Master’s Degree · Data Science (Machine Learning) in Networks · Mittweida, Germany

University of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor of Science · Electrical Engineering (Computer Science) · Lahore, Pakistan

Certifications & licenses

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Amazon Web Services

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level

International Software Testing Qualifications Board

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