Muhammad Haroon

Mobile QA Engineer

Axel Springer • Fulltime

Aug 2023 - Present • 3 yrs 1 mo

Led end to end quality assurance activities for Android and iOS applications, ensuring stable and high quality releases throughout the SDLC. Designed and maintained comprehensive test strategies, test scenarios, regression suites, and release validation plans using Zephyr. Developed and maintained mobile automation frameworks using using Javascript with Appium and WebdriverIO. Performed functional, regression, smoke, sanity, exploratory, compatibility, and usability testing across multiple mobile devices. Performed API validation by analysing JSON request and response payloads, and monitored mobile network traffic using Charles Proxy. Conducted UI and UX validation against Figma designs, ensuring design consistency and an optimal user experience across multiple devices with different versions. Supported A B testing initiatives by validating feature variations, experiment configurations, user segmentation, and tracking implementation before production releases. Participated in backlog refinement, Sprint Planning, and story estimation sessions, collaborating with Product Owners and Developers to review requirements, clarify acceptance criteria, estimate testing effort, and improve sprint planning. Recommended splitting complex user stories into smaller, testable deliverables to improve development efficiency, estimation accuracy, and release predictability. Reviewed implementation changes and Pull Requests (PRs) from a quality perspective, ensuring completed work satisfied acceptance criteria before release. Managed the complete defect lifecycle in Jira, providing detailed reproduction steps, logs, screenshots, videos, and technical analysis to support rapid issue resolution. Published release notes and maintained QA documentation in Confluence, ensuring clear communication, traceability, and release transparency across cross functional teams. Worked closely with Developers, Product Managers, Designers, QA Engineers, and DevOps teams.

QA Engineer

shyftplan GmbH • Fulltime

May 2022 - May 2023 • 1 yr

Designed and executed comprehensive test strategies, test scenarios, and regression suites using Xray, ensuring complete functional and regression coverage. Developed and maintained automated web and API test suites using the Karate Framework, improving regression testing efficiency and release confidence. Performed REST API validation using Swagger, verifying business logic, authentication, response payloads, and data integrity. Investigated production issues using Datadog, application logs, and system monitoring tools to support root cause analysis and faster issue resolution. Collaborated with Product Owners and Software Engineers during backlog refinement to review requirements, define acceptance criteria, identify edge cases, and improve feature testability. Contributed to Sprint Planning by estimating QA effort, participating in story point estimation. Validated data integrity and privacy related workflows to ensure application behaviour aligned with business and compliance requirements. Partnered with Customer Support to reproduce customer-reported issues, analyse application behaviour, and deliver timely resolutions with engineering teams.

Junior Software Tester

Koncept Solutions International • Fulltime

Oct 2019 - Mar 2022 • 2 yrs 5 mos

Designed and executed manual test cases based on business requirements and user stories. Performed functional, regression, usability, and cross browser testing to ensure application quality. Validated REST APIs using Postman, verifying response payloads and HTTP status codes. Managed the complete defect lifecycle using Jira, from identification and reporting to verification and closure. Collaborated with Developers, Business Analysts, and QA Engineers to ensure timely defect resolution and successful software releases.