Mubashar Ali

Passionate QA Automation Engineer with 12 years of experience building quality into software products that millions of users depend on daily. I specialize in creating intelligent test automation frameworks that not only find bugs but also prevent them from happening in the first place. Currently leading AI testing initiatives for healthcare applications, where quality literally saves lives.

What drives me: Turning chaotic testing processes into smooth, automated workflows that give team's confidence to ship faster. I have helped companies reduce testing time by 75% while actually improving quality and I love mentoring others to do the same.

QA Lead at Saudi Aramco – SIPARADIGM (Subcontractor) (2023-09 – Present)

The Challenge: Test AI-powered cancer detection systems where accuracy is not just a metric, it affects real patient diagnoses.

• Leading QA efforts for two flagship products: Fish (AI cancer detection) and NGLIS (AI-powered Lab Information System) that process 50,000+ medical images daily
• Built a micro services testing framework that catches issues before they impact the 200+ hospitals using our system, achieved 88% code coverage through smart test design
• Created an ML validation pipeline that improved our AI model accuracy from 94% to 98.5%, those 4.5 percentage points mean better diagnoses for thousands of patients
• Implemented performance testing for our Saga architecture that helped us handle 3x more concurrent users without adding servers, saved $180K in infrastructure costs
• Developed data validation frameworks using Apache Spark on AWS EMR to ensure 99.99% accuracy in our ETL pipelines processing 10TB+ of medical data daily

Lead / Senior QA Engineer at Synergy-IT (2020-02 – 2023-09)

The Challenge: Ensure flawless operation of educational platforms used by 50,000+ students across Nordic countries, where downtime means missed classes.

• Transformed testing for two major Danish education platforms (Gyldendal Denmark and MentorDanmark) from mostly manual to 91% automated
• Tackled the complexity of Azure cloud testing with Pub/Sub architecture, created event-driven test scenarios that caught integration issues others missed
• Reduced our regression cycle from 10 days to 2 days while actually improving coverage, the team could now deploy weekly instead of monthly
• Implemented security testing that found 45+ vulnerabilities before hackers could, protected sensitive data of thousands of students and teachers
• Decreased customer complaints by 40% through better UAT automation, because happy customers don't write bug reports
• Mentored 5 junior QA engineers, helping them level up their automation skills, two have since become senior engineers themselves

QA Team Lead at LMKT (2018-05 – 2020-02)

The Challenge: Lead quality assurance for enterprise workforce management systems handling millions of daily transactions.

• Led a 6-person QA team through a complete testing transformation, improved delivery quality by 55% while keeping the team motivated and engaged
• Built a QA Center of Excellence from scratch with 500+ reusable test components, what used to take days now took hours
• Introduced BDD with Cucumber, finally getting business stakeholders and developers speaking the same language about requirements
• Implemented performance testing that identified bottlenecks, improving response times by 60% users stopped complaining about the "slow system"
• Brought post-production defect rate down from 8% to 1.5% fewer midnight calls and happier customers

Software QA Engineer at TEO-International (2015-03 – 2018-05)

The Journey Begins: Started my automation journey here, working on e-commerce platforms for Nordic markets.

• Grew from manual tester to automation engineer, eventually automating 2,500+ test cases for e-commerce platforms handling $5M+ in annual transactions
• Spent 4 months learning.NET development with the dev team, best decision ever, as it taught me to think like a developer when writing tests
• Reduced manual testing effort by 80% through strategic automation, gave the team time to do exploratory testing where humans excel
• Worked directly with Danish and Swedish clients, learning the importance of clear communication across cultures and time zones

Bachelor of Computer Science in Computer Science – Federal Urdu University (2015)