Senior QA Engineer, AI-Driven Automation Portfolio at IB Croc LLC (2025-12 – Present)
- Designed and built a full E2E automation framework from scratch covering banking flows, API authentication, and security scenarios, structured so that a UI change never breaks the entire suite (17 Page Object Models)
- Directed a four-role multi-agent LLM team throughout the entire portfolio build: Claude Code as the implementer generating all TypeScript code, Claude AI as the Coach explaining concepts and guiding architectural decisions, Gemini as the independent auditor enforcing coding standards, and myself as the Architect making every architecture, plan, and decision
- Eliminated all manual test reporting by connecting GitHub Actions to Xray Cloud via REST API, so every push auto-creates a Jira Test Execution with zero human intervention
- Debugged a CI/CD pipeline failure where JUnit XML was not being generated on clean runs, traced the root cause, and fixed it so the Xray upload runs reliably on every push
Independent Trader and Digital Product Creator at IB Croc LLC (2023-02 – 2025-11)
Traded crypto markets actively for 3 years, applying technical analysis across long and short positions, day trading, and structured trade journaling. Built and trained a custom ChatGPT model to identify market patterns, liquidity movements, and high-probability setups, and created personalized indicators to support daily trading decisions.
Designed
DigitPilot (digitpilot.io), an AI-powered crypto trading education platform, prototyping the full product in Figma AI and building a live website with a waitlist, curriculum and expert blog, proving the ability to take a product from idea to launch independently.
Career Break (2016-01 – 2023-01)
Stepped away from the corporate tech world during a planned career break to focus on personal priorities and manage private business activities.
Freelance Senior QA Engineer at Self-Employed (2011-09 – 2015-12)
- Delivered end-to-end QA across e-commerce, SaaS, and early-stage startup projects for international clients, catching defects before any code reached production
- Built test plans, defect workflows, and release checklists from scratch for clients who had none, turning chaotic releases into predictable delivery cycles
- Coached junior testers and non-technical founders on QA fundamentals, test planning, and defect management, leaving every client self-sufficient after the engagement ended
Senior QA Analyst III at Fiserv (2008-04 – 2011-09)
- Owned end-to-end QA for the Fiserv Risk and Compliance Framework, a large-scale.NET financial platform used by US financial institutions, covering functional, regression, integration, and security testing across multiple release cycles
- Brought penetration and security testing into the Fiserv QA practice for the first time, applying hands-on experience from IBM to identify real vulnerabilities in financial applications before they shipped
- Wrote acceptance criteria and test estimates at the start of every sprint, catching misunderstandings between the business and dev team early
- Delayed releases when the product was not ready and escalated quality risks directly to the QA Manager, protecting the stability of platforms used by US financial institutions
- Built and maintained production-like environments from scratch including Domain Controllers, Active Directory, IIS, and SQL Server, giving the team full control to test independently without waiting on IT for setup or updates
Senior QA Engineer at IBM Internet Security Systems (2000-09 – 2008-04)
- Tested enterprise security products including antivirus, firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, and buffer overflow prevention technologies, shipped to enterprise clients worldwide, ensuring every product could survive real-world conditions
- Led a team of 6 offshore QA engineers in India through a full project cycle, trained them on testing processes and standards, and handed the project off with the team ready to own it independently
- Created test plans from functional and product requirements, ensuring full coverage across operational, performance, usability, and regression testing on multiple platforms following the full SDLC before test cycles began
- Validated IBM security products against real threats using Metasploit, live malware, and actual network exploits, not simulations, so vulnerabilities were caught internally before they could be exploited in production
- Performed kernel-level crash analysis using WinDbg and Sysinternals, identifying root causes of complex defects that standard testing could not catch
