Naeem Akram

I'm a QA automation engineer with 13 years spent building test automation frameworks from scratch across web, API and Windows desktop applications. I care most about frameworks that stay maintainable long after the person who built them has moved on.

Right now I own test strategy and automation direction for Transcend, a retail finance platform at NETSOL Technologies. Most of that work sits where QA meets AI: I built a Windows automation stack on FlaUI, C# and NUnit, wired Claude Code and GitHub Copilot into Page Object Model development to cut script delivery time by over 40%, and wrote internal CLI tooling that exposes the UI element tree of legacy Windows applications to agentic coding tools so they can generate reliable tests. I also generate test cases directly from Azure DevOps stories using Azure MCP.

Before that, at Netwrix, I built a C# and Selenium framework from the ground up that reached full end-to-end smoke coverage for 1Secure, generated tests from user stories with Playwright MCP, and ran performance and load testing across Azure AD, Exchange Online and SharePoint Online integrations. Earlier: led a Java automation team whose performance work contributed to a 3x improvement in response time, cut verification time on complex interest-rate calculations by 4x in C#, and helped automate 40+ business-critical applications to reduce testing costs by 50%.

Day to day I work in Playwright, Selenium, FlaUI, Appium and Pytest, across C#, TypeScript, Python and Java, with CI/CD in Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions and Jenkins. I've also built a retrieval-augmented generation chatbot with LangChain and FAISS and run the full stack on Ubuntu cloud VMs with Docker and Nginx.

I've worked remotely for most of the last five years and I'm comfortable in async, written-first teams. I share what I learn: a TestGuild guest session on API testing in Playwright, and QA tutorials on YouTube. I'm looking for senior SDET or automation roles where the job is building tooling rather than maintaining someone else's legacy.