# Emdad Farzad

Emdad Farzad is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior SDET at Oasis, A Paychex Company, based in United States.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@emdadfarzad

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Senior SDET at OASIS, a PAYCHEX company, who built an AI testing system that cut daily test analysis to under 10 minutes.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | United States |
| Authorized to work in | United States |
| Job categories | SDET, QA Automation Engineer, Senior Test Engineer, Automation Engineer, Software Test Engineer |
| Skills | Testing Automation, Playwright, TypeScript, Selenium Webdriver, API Testing, Karate, Rest Assured, Postman, CI CD, Jenkins, Docker, Claude LLM, Model Context Protocol (MCP), BDD, Cucumber |
| LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/emdadullahfarzad |

## About

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At OASIS, a PAYCHEX company, I built an AI-driven testing system with Claude LLM and Model Context Protocol that cut daily test analysis from 3 hours to under 10 minutes. I also automate web UI coverage with Playwright and TypeScript and maintain Selenium frameworks.

Across healthcare, insurance, and fintech applications, I’ve built automation for end-to-end and API testing, including 500+ BDD scenarios and 98% API coverage of critical insurance workflows. I’ve embedded Jenkins and Docker quality gates that maintained 95% test execution reliability and used manual testing to uncover complex edge cases.
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## Experience

### Senior SDET (current)

Oasis, A Paychex Company. Nov 2019 - Present

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Automated end-to-end web UI coverage with Playwright and TypeScript, architected Selenium/Java/TestNG frameworks, and built an AI-driven testing system with MCP and Claude LLM. Embedded quality gates in Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and mentored junior QA engineers.
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Skills: Playwright, TypeScript, Selenium-Webdriver, Java, TestNG, Karate, Postman, GraphQL, Jenkins, Docker, Linux, BASH, Datadog, New-Relic, Jira, AI-Testing, MCP, Claude-LLM

### Senior Test Engineer

HCA/HealthTrust Workforce Solutions. Jan 2019 - Nov 2019

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Converted 200+ manual test cases to Selenium automation using C# and JavaScript, coordinated regression suites across 5 divisions, and reproduced system-level defects in a healthcare platform. Managed framework updates and test data.
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Skills: Selenium-Webdriver, C#, JavaScript, MSTest, Visual-Studio, Git, TFS, TestRail, HPALM

### QA Automation Engineer

CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. Sep 2017 - Dec 2018

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Built a hybrid data-driven and BDD framework with Java, Selenium, TestNG, Maven, and Cucumber, supporting 500+ automated scenarios. Developed mobile automation with Appium and performed API testing with RestAssured and Postman.
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Skills: Java, Selenium-Webdriver, TestNG, Maven, Cucumber, Appium, Rest-Assured, Postman, Jenkins, Git, Jira, SQL

### Automation Engineer

Guardian Life Insurance. Jan 2015 - Aug 2017

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Designed 300+ automated Selenium scripts with Java, JUnit, and TestNG, reducing manual regression time by 65%. Ran performance tests with JMeter and built a SoapUI framework for SOA web services.
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Skills: Selenium-Webdriver, Java, Junit, TestNG, Maven, SoapUI, JMeter, SQL-Server, HPALM

### Software Test Engineer

TD Ameritrade. Sep 2012 - Dec 2014

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Automated cross-browser testing with BrowserStack and Selenium, tested financial transaction flows manually, and extended the TestNG framework with reusable utilities. Reproduced and tracked high-priority bugs using Jira and HP ALM.
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Skills: Selenium-Webdriver, Java, TestNG, HP-Quality-Center, Jira, SQL, Oracle, BrowserStack

## Education

### NYDASA Institute of Science and Technology

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering

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Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Engineering.
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### Interview Kickstart

Machine Learning Program, Machine Learning

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Completed a Machine Learning Program.
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### Columbia University

Cybersecurity Bootcamp, Cybersecurity

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Completed a Cybersecurity Bootcamp.
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## Tech stack

- Postman
- BrowserStack
- Sauce Labs
- GitHub
- Bitbucket
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Oracle
- Visual Studio
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Jira
- Cypress
- JavaScript
- Python
- Java
- C#
- Kotlin
- JSON
- Appium
- Linux
- New Relic
- Datadog
- GraphQL
- TypeScript
- JUnit
- Cucumber
- TestNG
- Git
- Docker
- REST Assured
- SQL
- SoapUI
- TestRail
- Groovy
- Playwright
- Bash
- k6
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Selenium WebDriver

To contact Emdad, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire).

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