Hassan Amjad

IT Consultant

Düsseldorf, Germany

Experience

Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 4 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

IT Consultant

ALDI Süd (Albrecht's Discount)

  • DevOps & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE):
  • Responsible for the full lifecycle of GitLab CI/CD pipelines, including development, maintenance, and support.
  • Responsible for investigating and resolving major incidents through code changes or AWS CloudWatch for monitoring and troubleshooting.
  • Test Automation & Engineering:
  • Responsible for driving and completing the testing process, including developing, executing, and maintaining automated tests with PHP and Codeception.
  • Requirements Gathering & Analysis:
  • Responsible for conducting thorough requirement gathering to understand user needs, make them testable, and map them to business requirements.
  • Collaborate with product owners and architects to translate business requirements into detailed technical specifications and create the test concept.
  • Responsible for promoting a shift-left approach to quality assurance within the team.
  • Framework Management:
  • Responsible for framework migrations, setup, and training for new automation frameworks.
  • QA & Team Leadership:
  • Manage and mentor QA resources as QA Lead, lead automation activities, increase test coverage, and implement refactoring practices.
  • Streamline QA processes, improve test coverage, efficiency, and overall software quality.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Participate in meetings with IT managers, business owners, product owners, and team members to ensure alignment and smooth project execution.
  • Train and coach new team members on business requirements, best automation practices, and test script execution.
  • Tech Stack: Docker - JAVA - PHP - Symfony - SQL - Redis - RabbitMQ - Amazon Web Services (AWS) - New Relic - GitLab - Codeception - Software Development
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
1 year 6 months
Leipzig, Germany

Software QA Team Lead

Twinner GmbH

  • Test Management:
  • Plan test scope, lead and manage resources.
  • Create the test plan, traceability matrix, and reporting.
  • Automation Leadership:
  • Implement QA processes and automated tests for all products.
  • Continuously improve automation strategy and framework.
  • Represent QA in meetings with IT and business stakeholders.
  • Responsible for reviewing the automation framework.
  • Train BAs on the latest Gherkin concepts.
Oct 2018 - Sep 2020
2 years
Leipzig, Germany

Test Automation Engineer

Twinner GmbH

  • Build and maintain the entire test automation framework from scratch.
  • Develop and automate regression test suites.
  • Automate API tests in Postman and/or by writing Groovy scripts in SOAPUI.
  • Assist in bug tracking and reporting.
  • Responsible for developing automation strategies for GUI framework, API tests, E2E tests, and stress tests in the cloud.
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
2 years 5 months
Lahore, Pakistan

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Sofodynamix Solutions

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

Summary

  • As an AWS and ISTQB-certified IT Consultant with 8+ years of experience, I have specialized in cloud consulting, full-stack development and architecture, as well as quality assurance. My expertise includes scripting, test automation, and test management for both front-end and back-end. I have worked on several frameworks and developed test automation frameworks in Java and PHP with Selenium, and Codeception, integrated with CI pipelines.
  • Expert in integration, unit, UI, functional, regression, UAT, browser compatibility, and non-functional testing in GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
  • Expert in JAVA, PHP, JavaScript, Python, and automation frameworks.
  • Expert in requirements gathering and shift-left approach.
  • Expert in TDD and BDD.
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills to lead the team.

Languages

English
Advanced
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