Ashhar Hussain

Detail-oriented and highly motivated Manual SQA Engineer with over three years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, and defect tracking. Proficient in test case design, execution, and reporting, ensuring high-quality software delivery. Adept at working in Agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams to achieve project goals.

Senior SQA Engineer - Assurety Consulting & Solutions

(2022-11)

Led end-to-end manual testing efforts for Post Presort Mail Editor (AIMS), a mission-critical product used by USPS mailers, ensuring high standards of functionality, usability, and performance.

• Designed and maintained comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and test cases aligned with business requirements and technical specifications.
• Proactively identified, analyzed, and tracked complex software defects using industry-standard tools, driving issues to resolution with clear prioritization and impact assessment.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to troubleshoot, debug, and resolve critical issues, reducing production risks.
• Mentored team members and led knowledge-sharing sessions, particularly around critical defects, testing approaches, and best practices.
• Executed and oversaw multiple testing types including Black Box, Smoke, Regression, Sanity, and Ad-hoc testing to ensure robust release quality.
• Led API testing efforts using Postman and Swagger UI, validating data integrity and service reliability across integrations.
• Leveraged AI-powered tools to design and optimize test cases and business scenarios, improving test coverage and efficiency.
• Facilitated and actively contributed to daily stand-ups, ensuring clear communication of risks, blockers, and progress to stakeholders.
• Represented QA in deployment, demo, discovery, and requirement sessions with clients, ensuring alignment between business expectations and product delivery.

Desktop Support Executive - Bayut & Dubizzle

(2021-06 - 2022-10)

• Management of IT inventory Network & Security Systems documentation.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN links
• Providing Hardware support of all Servers and Workstations
• Software Installation Setting up user accounts, permissions and passwords.
• Training staff on new systems.

Data Validation Executive - AUA Solutions

(2019-02 - 2019-06)

As an executive my responsibility is to contact different US - Organizations to verify available data of employees and generate leads in excel sheet.

BS - Software Engineering - ILMA University (2015 - 2019)

Intermediate - Pre Engineering - Govt. Degree College Gulzar-e-Hijri (2012 - 2015)