Damla Ucar

Senior QA Engineer with 11+ years of software quality assurance experience across enterprise retail, healthcare, defense, and technology products. Led a 7-person QA team on a national-scale healthcare programme and owned end-to-end quality for enterprise SaaS releases. Hands-on in Playwright and Selenium automation, API testing, risk-based test strategy, UAT, and production release validation.

Known for reducing release risk through early defect detection and building automation that cuts manual regression effort.

Senior Software Test Developer at Invent Analytics (2024-10 – 2026-08)

Enterprise retail planning SaaS

• Owned end-to-end quality assurance for enterprise retail planning solutions, defining test strategy across UI, API, integration, regression and E2E layers.
• Built and maintained a Playwright/TypeScript automation suite that automated ~50% of the regression scope, reducing manual regression effort and shortening release cycles.
• Led UAT and production release validation, acting as final quality gate before go-live and performing release readiness assessments.
• Designed and executed API validation scenarios with Postman and Swagger for complex planning and forecasting workflows.
• Investigated production incidents through log analysis and root cause validation, feeding findings back into test coverage.
• Partnered with Product Managers, Developers, UI/UX Designers and Business Analysts across the SDLC to surface product risks early.
• Applied AI-assisted tools to accelerate test design, documentation and defect analysis.

Test Team Leader at TIGA Information Technologies (2023-05 – 2024-10)

Qatar Ministry of Health programme

• Led and coordinated a 7-person QA team on a large-scale national healthcare information system project.
• Owned test planning, task allocation, workload balancing and progress tracking across multiple healthcare modules.
• Established test processes, review practices and reporting standards; monitored team quality metrics and defect trends.
• Acted as primary QA contact for project managers, developers and client stakeholders, driving release decisions with risk-based input.
• Mentored team members on test design, defect reporting quality and domain knowledge.

Senior QA Specialist at Akakçe (2022-06 – 2023-05)

Price comparison platform

• Prepared test plans, scenarios and detailed test cases for high-traffic consumer-facing features.
• Executed manual UI and API testing and developed Selenium-based automation tests.
• Tracked defects in Jira/Xray and validated production deployments, monitoring post-release quality.

Test Specialist at IC Terra (2020-06 – 2022-05)

• Led customer acceptance testing and authored Quality Plan and QA Test Plan documentation.
• Reviewed test procedures against system requirements and managed nonconformity reporting.
• Worked with Jira, Selenium WebDriver, GitLab, SharePoint and Confluence.

Test Specialist at HAVELSAN (2018-03 – 2020-05)

ANTE Project — defense

• Performed system, regression, transport and load testing; prepared test definitions, execution reports and defect records.
• Supported product feature validation throughout the development lifecycle.

Test Specialist at Simsoft / ASELSAN (2017-09 – 2018-03)

ANKA Project — electronic warfare

• Tested electronic warfare software systems, including communication signal processing functionalities.
• Participated in architecture reviews and technical analysis.

Test Engineer at Verisis (2015-03 – 2017-08)

• Performed maintenance and regression testing across the release lifecycle; managed defects in TFS.

M.Sc. in Management Information Systems – Ufuk University, Ankara (2020)

B.Sc. in Mathematics – Ankara University, Ankara (2013)