Senior QA Lead & Test Automation Expert

JUVERIA SYEDA

Senior Associate QA Lead Senior Quality Engineering & Test Automation

Massachusetts *******.******@*****.*** +1-978-***-**** PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Results-driven Senior QA and Test Automation Leader with 12+ years building enterprise-grade quality programs from the ground up. Delivered 85%+ automation coverage across cloud-native platforms at marquee clients including PwC, Virgin Galactic, Memorial Sloan Kettering, and KeyBank — spanning healthcare, aerospace, financial services, energy, telecom and Capital Markets. Expert in Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, and WebdriverIO; fluent across CI/CD pipelines, performance testing (K6, JMeter), and API validation at scale. Proven track record leading onshore/offshore teams, owning full release lifecycles as Phase Gate and Defect Manager, and driving measurable reductions in manual effort through automation. AWS Certified and Microsoft Azure Certified (AZ-900, AI-900, MS-900).

CORE TECHNICAL SKILLS

Test Automation: Playwright (Python & TypeScript), Selenium WebDriver (Java, Python), WebdriverIO

(JavaScript), Cypress, PyTest, Jest, Cucumber BDD / Gherkin Performance & API Testing: K6, JMeter, Postman, SoapUI, Perfecto Mobile, BrowserStack Frameworks & Patterns: Page Object Model (POM), BDD/Gherkin, Parallel Test Execution, Cross-Browser & Cross-Platform Testing, Dynamic Locator Strategies, Test Fixture & Data Management Programming Languages: Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Java, SQL, C/C++, MATLAB Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps (ADO), BigQuery, Cloud Composer (DAGs), Teradata

Tools & Platforms: Jira, Rally, QMetry, Alteryx, Relativity One, HP ALM / Quality Center, PuTTY Quality Engineering Practices: E2E & Journey Testing, Framework Architecture & Design, UAT & Smoke Testing, Phase Gate Governance, Release Lifecycle Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Offshore Team Leadership, Agile / SAFe / Scrum / Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

QA Lead Senior Associate Test Automation Lead May 2022 – Present PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Key Client Engagements

1. Senior Automation Specialist QA Lead Phase Gate Manager Defect Manager

— Florida Power & Light (Energy)

• Architected a production-grade Playwright + Cucumber BDD (Python) automation framework from scratch, achieving end-to-end coverage of customer journeys across multiple integrated Salesforce applications — eliminating a manual regression cycle that previously required days of effort per release.

• Engineered dynamic locator strategies and reusable test fixtures supporting stable cross-browser execution (Chrome, Firefox, WebKit) integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

• Served as Phase Gate Manager, defining and enforcing entry and exit criteria across release phases to ensure no workstream advanced without meeting quality, coverage, and sign-off thresholds.

• Served as Defect Manager: triaged all defects, facilitated daily IR3 defect triage calls with developers and stakeholders, tracked resolution progress, enforced closure criteria, and published executive EOD and metrics reports.

• Owned end-to-end performance testing strategy for a large-scale energy platform migration — defining load scenarios, certifying environment readiness, and coordinating cross-functional sign-off before each release phase, directly reducing production performance risk.

• Governed the IR3.1 release lifecycle (pre-cutover, cutover, hypercare), enforcing automated quality gates and entry/exit checkpoints at every deployment phase across the full Salesforce IR2 and IR3 release program.

• Automated end-to-end QA reporting and live dashboard generation, eliminating manual reporting effort entirely and providing leadership with real-time test traceability and defect visibility across every release phase.

• Maintained QMetry hygiene and test management standards across all workstreams, ensuring accurate test case execution tracking and traceability; drove continuous quality improvement through Test Circuit execution and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).

2. QA Automation Analyst QA Lead – Data Migration — Verizon Telecommunications

• Built a Python automation engine to process Pelican mapping CSV files across the WLS and VBG workstreams, auto-generating structured output files per schema combination, splitting them into chunks, and removing outdated files — eliminating all manual schema mapping effort for Teradata-to- BigQuery validation.

• Performed enterprise-scale data validation across Teradata and BigQuery using SQL, ensuring end-to- end migration accuracy and data integrity.

• Monitored GCP Cloud Composer DAG workflows for execution success, participating in developer triage calls to troubleshoot and resolve pipeline failures. 3. Senior Data Analyst QA Lead — UnitedHealth Care

• Extracted and parsed structured data from PDF documents using Python (Spyder), automating data extraction workflows that previously required manual effort.

• Cleansed and transformed parsed output data using Alteryx to ensure accuracy and consistency for downstream consumption.

• Queried Bronze database layers to validate parsing output and ensure data completeness; supplemented with manual validation from Relativity One. 4. Senior Automation Lead QA Lead — AIDA Cloud Platform Launch

• Executed comprehensive quality testing across Azure and AWS platforms, covering end-to-end test cases including edge case scenarios.

• Identified and raised critical and minor defects, coordinating rapid resolution with developers through structured retesting cycles.

• Delivered the project on schedule, directly enabling production deployment and activating new revenue streams on the AWS-hosted platform.

5. Senior Testing Consultant QA Lead — KeyBank Financial Systems Migration

• Developed and executed E2E UAT automation test cases using Playwright (Java) for accounting and 2052A regulatory scenarios within the KeyBank Findur-to-Calypso financial system migration, managing test status in Azure DevOps.

• Built Python automation scripts for Pricing Model Validation and authored a comprehensive Playbook adopted by the broader testing team.

• Designed the Test Plan and testing dashboard; delivered daily status reports to the client, led daily stand-up and defect calls, and authored the Project Closure report summarizing testing scope, deliverables, and outcomes.

6. Senior Quality Engineer QA Lead — Virgin Galactic Aerospace MVP Program

• Designed and delivered a comprehensive E2E automation suite using Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, PyTest, and Jest (Python and JavaScript), providing multi-layer UI and functional coverage critical to the Virgin Galactic MVP launch timeline.

• Built and maintained GitHub Actions CI/CD automation pipelines, enabling continuous test execution on every code commit with Pylint static analysis integration.

• Developed an Enterprise Quality Engineering strategy and framework supporting the MVP release, defining the target-state QE operating model to accelerate the shift from desktop-based, on-premise manual processes to a cloud-native, automation-first architecture.

• Integrated MATLAB qSim 2.0 simulation model validation into the automation suite; maintained 85%+ component test coverage across UI and ADF (Azure Data Factory) layers and contributed to benchmarking deck and user guide preparation.

7. Performance Testing Lead — Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

• Led an onshore/offshore performance testing team to successful delivery of 17 automation scripts across three critical enterprise healthcare applications at Memorial Sloan Kettering, on time and within scope.

• Scripted frontend and backend K6 performance scenarios for MyMSK ccda, Pims, and MyMSK mobile/web; built a custom HAR-to-K6 conversion utility for MyMSK mobile to resolve script compatibility issues; scripted HealthKit mobile application scenarios and raised PRs for all 17 scripts through code review.

• Authored the performance testing playbook, project plan, and management checkpoint deck; delivered daily and weekly status reports to the client.

8. UAT Lead QA Lead — Walmart

• Led UAT and smoke testing programs, managing test planning, scenario writing, and test case execution in Jira.

• Owned defect lifecycle management: logged, tracked, and reported all defects daily via Jira dashboards, following up directly with the engineering team for resolution.

• Collaborated with business and tech workstream leads to refine data mappings, define UAT entry/exit and go/no-go criteria, and maintained the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) throughout the testing lifecycle.

Senior Development Engineer in Test (SDET) April 2021 – April 2022 KeyBank

• Architected an enterprise Selenium WebDriver + WebdriverIO + Cucumber BDD automation framework in JavaScript, covering web and native mobile (iOS and Android) for KeyBank and National Digital Bank

(NDB) applications.

• Implemented cross-browser and real-device test execution via Perfecto Mobile, ensuring consistent coverage across the full device matrix.

• Automated key customer journeys for KeyBank and National Digital Bank (NDB) including login, account opening, account summary, funds transfers, bill payments, transaction history, profile management, and end-to-end workflows involving integrated banking and Order Management (OMS) systems.

• Partnered with Product Owners, Architects, and Developers in Agile/Scrum ceremonies to translate business requirements into automated acceptance test coverage.

• Managed regression testing cycles, defect triage calls, and standardized testing artifacts across System, UAT, and Performance test phases.

QA Automation Analyst November 2017 – December 2020 DaVita Healthcare Partners

• Designed modular Selenium WebDriver frameworks in Java with Page Object Model architecture, supporting UI and backend automation for enterprise healthcare applications.

• Built comprehensive REST and SOAP API test suites with custom XML schema assertors and data banks for input/output validation.

• Authored complex SQL scripts for backend and frontend data validation, executing test cases against source and target database tables.

• Coordinated UAT with business stakeholders; produced Test Plans, Test Approach, Test Matrix, and Test Strategy documentation across multiple release cycles. Quality Assurance Engineer August 2014 – June 2017 Inception, Eindhoven, Netherlands

• Designed and executed automation and manual test strategies; maintained Requirements Traceability Matrices for full feature coverage.

• Validated RESTful APIs with custom assertions and tested SOAP/WSDL services; performed SQL- based backend and frontend data validation.

• Managed defect lifecycle using HP Quality Center (ALM), coordinating defect resolution with development teams across iterative Agile delivery cycles. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

• Certified SAFe® 6 Product Owner/Product Manager (POPM), Scaled Agile

• Cloud Business Essentials, IDC

• Microsoft Certified: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals (MS-900)

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

• Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)

• UFT One Tester Specialist, Micro Focus

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering & Science

Deccan Engineering College, Hyderabad, India

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