# Ovais Ali Ovais Ali is a remote worker on Himalayas, QA Automation Lead at Advantage Solutions, based in United States. Source: https://himalayas.app/@ovaisali ```text QA Automation Lead at Advantage Solutions who built five Playwright frameworks and automated production monitoring. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Looking for a job | | Location | United States | | Authorized to work in | United States | | Salary expectations | 170k+ USD | | Job categories | QA Automation Engineer | | Skills | Testing Automation, Test Strategy, Test Planning, Playwright, Backend Testing, API Testing, GRPC APIs, Microservices Testing, Performance Testing, Load Testing, CI CD, E2E Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Claude Code | | LinkedIn | https://linkedin.com/in/ovais-ali | | GitHub | https://github.com/sdetoali | ## About ```text At Advantage Solutions, I built and maintained five Playwright automation frameworks covering about 300 tests across five applications. I also automated Datadog mobile synthetic monitoring with ServiceNow incident creation and Azure Logic Apps alerts, replacing about an hour of daily manual monitoring. I used Claude Code with feature-specific knowledge files to ground generated tests in documented requirements and business logic. I also designed a multi-stage refactoring workflow and independent code review process that refactored more than 10 TypeScript files with zero regressions. At TextNow, I built Go-based backend automation for the SIM activation workflow, supporting about 500,000 active users, and developed gRPC and REST API integration tests that ran on every pull request. I containerized the test environment so the microservices stack could be started with one command. At Sidecar Health, I led five SDETs and built REST API and Android test automation frameworks; the API regression suite reached 70% test coverage. Earlier, I contributed to API and UI automation at Trimble and built automated test scripts for Rockwell Collins' Positive Train Control Back Office Server. ``` ## Experience ### QA Automation Lead Advantage Solutions. Mar 2023 - Oct 2026 ```text Built and maintained 5 Playwright test automation frameworks covering ~300 automated tests across 5 applications. Designed parallelized frameworks on Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and automated Datadog mobile synthetic monitoring with ServiceNow incident creation. ``` Skills: Playwright, TypeScript, Java, Azure-DevOps, CI-CD, Datadog, ServiceNow, Azure-Logic-Apps, Claude-Code, AI-Assisted-Refactoring ### Senior Backend SDET TextNow. Sep 2021 - Jan 2023 ```text Built Go-based backend test automation for the SIM activation workflow supporting ~500,000 active users. Developed gRPC and REST API integration tests in Go for microservices, run on every pull request through Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. ``` Skills: Go, gRPC, REST-APIs, Jenkins, CI-CD, Docker, Docker-Compose, MySQL, DynamoDB, Cucumber, Gherkin, Datadog, SQL ### Lead Backend SDET Sidecar Health. Jun 2019 - Sep 2021 ```text Led a team of 5 SDETs building and maintaining a backend test automation framework. Built a REST API test automation framework from scratch in Java and an Android native mobile test automation framework with Appium. ``` Skills: Java, Rest-Assured, TestNG, Maven, Jenkins, AWS, Appium, JMeter, InfluxDB, Grafana, API-Testing, Performance-Testing ### Specialist Senior, Systems Engineering [Deloitte](https://himalayas.app/companies/deloitte-ireland). Jul 2018 - Jun 2019 ```text Automation Lead for California Department of Public Health, extending a C# Selenium WebDriver framework and increasing automated test coverage by 25%. UAT Lead for NRG, defining business use cases for SAP-integrated applications. ``` Skills: C#, Selenium-Webdriver, Visual-Studio, TFS, UAT, SAP ### Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer [Trimble](https://himalayas.app/companies/trimble). Jan 2015 - Jun 2018 ```text Built API test automation suite for Trimble Connect public REST APIs in Java and TestNG. Developed UI test automation for 3D model viewer using Page Object Model, cutting test execution time by 90%. ``` Skills: Java, Selenium, TestNG, Cucumber, Gherkin, REST-APIs, JMeter, SQL, Jenkins, Git, EC2, WildFly, Elasticsearch ### Software Engineer in Test Rockwell Collins. Feb 2009 - Dec 2014 ```text Designed and built automated TCL test scripts on Linux for the Positive Train Control (PTC) Back Office Server. Built a reusable QTP test automation framework for the AIM transportation control platform. ``` Skills: Tcl, Linux, QTP, Microfocus-UFT, Test-Planning, Requirement-Traceability ### QA Engineer Innowave Technology. Jul 2008 - Dec 2008 ```text QA Engineer at Innowave Technology. ``` ### Software Quality Assurance Analyst Downey Savings. Jun 2007 - Jun 2008 ```text Software Quality Assurance Analyst at Downey Savings. ``` ## Education ### American InterContinental University Master of Science, Information Technology ```text Master of Science in Information Technology from American InterContinental University. ``` ### American InterContinental University Bachelor of Science, Information Technology ```text Bachelor of Science in Information Technology from American InterContinental University. ``` ## Tech stack - Amazon EC2 - Amazon S3 - GitHub - Jenkins - MySQL - InfluxDB - Visual Studio - Azure DevOps - Bazel - Java - C# - Go - Appium - Grafana - Linux - CyberSource - Datadog - Elasticsearch - Amazon RDS - TypeScript - Cucumber - TestNG - Git - Docker - NGINX - Wildfly - REST Assured - SQL - SAP - ServiceNow - Playwright - Azure Logic Apps - Claude Code - Selenium WebDriver - AWS To contact Ovais, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Navin Mishra](https://himalayas.app/@navinmishra1): Senior Quality Tester, Genesys Consulting - [Yury Gagarin](https://himalayas.app/@yurygagarin): Senior QA Automation Engineer, Penske Logistics - [Kyle Tice](https://himalayas.app/@kyletice): Staff Automation Engineer, Midwest Tape / Hoopla - [Moreed Subat](https://himalayas.app/@moreedsubat): Lead Senior Software QA Automation Engineer, TRSS - [Anthony Banks](https://himalayas.app/@anthonybanks1): Full Stack Engineer, Neato - [Shahanoor Chowdhury](https://himalayas.app/@shahanoorchowdhury): Lead Test Automation Engineer, HiTechsUSA - [Heather Anastasi](https://himalayas.app/@heatheranastasi): Software Quality Assurance Lead, Weavix - [Torrey Hull](https://himalayas.app/@torreyhull): Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Veradigm - [Paul Maez](https://himalayas.app/@paulmaez): AI Engineer, Independent - [George Ataya](https://himalayas.app/@georgeataya): Principal Engineer & Automation Architect, AI Enabled Job Search Platform