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Kamran Khalid

@kamrankhalid1

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Senior SDET and automation specialist optimizing test frameworks and CI/CD for reliable cloud systems.

United Arab Emirates

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What I'm looking for

I seek a senior SDET/automation role in an Agile team to build scalable test frameworks, integrate CI/CD quality gates, drive shift-left testing, and improve release reliability in cloud/high-availability environments.

I am a Software Development and Quality Engineering professional with 7+ years building and scaling test automation frameworks for APIs, UIs, and databases. I specialize in Python and C#, Selenium, Playwright, Postman, and JMeter and focus on integrating CI/CD pipelines to increase release reliability.

In recent roles I owned backend API and UI automation for production platforms, improving execution speed by 40% and expanding test coverage by 50%. I authored 300+ BDD scenarios, integrated regression and smoke suites into Bitbucket pipelines—cutting manual QA effort by 70%—and reduced defect resolution time by 30% through shift-left validation and performance testing.

I collaborate closely with developers and cross-functional teams in Agile environments, debug staging and production issues to prevent outages, mentor junior engineers, and drive test strategy, release validation, and high-availability system stability.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

SDET / QA Automation Engineer

Creed & Bear

May 2024 - May 2025 (1 year)

Owned and scaled backend API and UI automation for crypto platforms, improving execution speed by 40% and expanding test coverage by 50% while authoring 300+ BDD scenarios that reduced trade processing errors by 25%. Integrated regression and smoke suites into Bitbucket CI/CD to cut manual QA effort by 70% and identified 502 concurrency bugs preventing outages.

Python Selenium Postman)SQL JMeter Bitbucket Pipelines

Senior Software Engineer (Automation)

Software Pattern Inc.

Jul 2021 - Apr 2024 (2 years 9 months)

Led automation and release validation for an e-commerce affiliate platform, automating catalog synchronization to reduce data lag by 60% and refactoring SEO validation to increase indexing accuracy by 40%. Developed real-time monitoring for pricing/stock integrity and mentored junior engineers to improve QA processes and release reliability.

Python Scrapy Selenium Flask Monitoring

Software Engineer - Data Validation

Software Pattern Inc.

Jul 2018 - Jun 2021 (2 years 11 months)

Built 30+ GUI/CLI Selenium tools and 200+ web scrapers with embedded UI tests to ensure 99% data accuracy, optimizing test schedules and regression suites to enhance defect detection. Automated shipping-cost calculations and monitored scraper performance with Kibana to maintain data integrity for client platforms.