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Komal Alam

@komalalam1

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QA consultant at Freelance who cut retesting effort by 25% through practical TDD and BDD practices.

United Kingdom

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At Freelance, I help clients embed TDD and BDD into daily work, reducing retesting effort by about 25%. I also work with product owners to turn broad goals into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.

At Proximus, I connected business stakeholders with development teams and used Postman and MySQL to catch integration issues early. I traced recurring defects to their sources, helping reduce repeat issues by around 30%.

At Trapeze Group Canada, I took part in modernising legacy Transport for London systems and built and maintained Playwright test scripts. Earlier, I led QA automation at Nanosoft Technology and helped establish testing standards and processes across client projects.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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QA Consultant

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Freelance

Mar 2024 - Present (2 years 7 months)

Helped clients embed TDD and BDD practices, reducing retesting effort by about 25%. Planned and facilitated Agile ceremonies and managed project tracking with Jira and ClickUp.

Test Driven Development BDD Agile Scrum Kanban Jira ClickUp Confluence Miro Figma GitHub SharePoint Test Strategy Requirements Analysis Stakeholder Management

QA Analyst

Proximus

Jan 2023 - Feb 2024 (1 year 1 month)

Acted as a key link between business stakeholders and development teams, reducing requirement gaps by about 15%. Used Postman for API checks and MySQL for database testing, and cut repeat issues by around 30%.

Postman MySQL Jenkins Gitlab Jira Confluence Miro Figma Couchbase GitHub SharePoint Splunk Kibana Redux Root Cause Analysis Agile Scrum

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Trapeze Group Canada

May 2021 - Oct 2022 (1 year 5 months)

Modernised legacy TfL systems, cutting critical bugs in production by about 40%. Built automated test scripts in Playwright with JavaScript, expanding test coverage by roughly 30%.

Playwright JavaScript Postman MySQL Jenkins Azure DevOps Scrum Kanban TestRail TFS Cypress Jira Miro Confluence Figma Swagger Bitbucket Oracle SQL API Testing Database Testing CI CD

Team Lead Quality Assurance

Nanosoft Technology

Jun 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 10 months)

Led automation for multiple web applications using Selenium, improving coverage by roughly 25%. Oversaw smoke, UI/UX, functional and regression testing throughout the product lifecycle.

Selenium Automation Smoke Testing UI UX testing Functional Testing Regression Testing Root Cause Analysis Log Analysis Database Testing

Senior QA Leadership Roles

Nanosoft Technology / EDEV Technologies

Jan 2016 - May 2019 (3 years 4 months)

Built a QA department from the ground up, recruiting and mentoring testers. Introduced Redmine, Mantis, and TestLink, reducing production bugs by about 20% and shortening testing cycles by around 30%.