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Saran Wanjiru

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Senior QA Engineer | Automation, Mobile & Web3 Testing | CI/CD & DevOps Integration | Driving Quality at Scale

Kenya

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What I'm looking for

Seeking an automation-first QA role in an Agile/DevOps environment to lead testing strategy, expand automation, leverage AI-driven QA, and drive faster, reliable releases.

Agile Senior Software QA Engineer with 8+ years of experience in automation, manual testing, QA leadership, and process optimization. Skilled in designing scalable UI, API, and mobile automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, K6, Postman, Appium) and integrating them into CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery and improve reliability.

Proven record of leading and mentoring QA teams, implementing shift-left strategies, and leveraging GenAI tools for test-case generation, defect clustering, and regression acceleration—boosting efficiency and raising automation coverage to 85%. Contributions have cut release times by 50% and significantly reduced defect leakage and resolution cycles.

Domain expertise includes Web3 smart contract testing, mobile app automation, API validation for high-availability microservices, and performance/security testing. Dedicated to embedding automation-first QA practices into DevOps workflows to enable consistent, high-quality, and frequent releases.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Software QA Engineer

Current

AZA Finance

Mar 2022 - Present (3 years 7 months)

Led QA for web and mobile platforms, designing scalable Playwright/Cypress automation frameworks and integrating tests into AWS CodePipeline to accelerate feedback by 30% and increase automation coverage by 40%.

Playwright Cypress JavaScript TypeScript AWS CodePipeline API Testing Postman CI CD

Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

AZA Finance

May 2018 - Feb 2022 (3 years 9 months)

Designed and implemented QA processes and automation (Postman, Selenium, Cypress) that improved regression efficiency by 35% and raised requirement-to-test coverage by 25%.

Postman Selenium Cypress API Testing Appium Test Automation

Quality Assurance Support Engineer

eProd Solutions Limited

Nov 2017 - Apr 2018 (5 months)

Tested agribusiness management software with automated API and UI tests, improving test coverage by 40% and reducing regression time by 25%; maintained JIRA bug lifecycle and customer support with 90% satisfaction.

Postman Selenium Katalon Jira Manual Testing Customer Support

Business Intelligence Analyst

UNEP

Mar 2017 - Oct 2017 (7 months)

Extracted and cleaned SQL data and created Power BI and Qlik Sense dashboards, improving reporting accuracy by 15% and delivering geo-visualizations with ArcGIS.

SQL Power BI Qlik ArcGIS Data Cleaning Dashboards

Business Intelligence & Data Analyst

ICT Authority

Jul 2016 - Jan 2017 (6 months)

Cleaned and analyzed large datasets, created interactive Power BI and Tableau dashboards, and reduced PDF-to-Excel processing time by 30%.

Data Cleaning Power BI Tableau)Excel Data Analysis Reporting ETL

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

ISTQB Certified Tester – AI Testing

Professional Certification, Software Testing

Expected ISTQB certification focusing on AI testing principles and practices (expected 2025).

Kenya Methodist University

Bachelor of Science, Business Information Technology

Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology focusing on IT and business applications, with practical experience in software testing and BI tools.