Germany

QA Engineer

Ain Shams

Ziad Tawfeek

Software Engineer in Test

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Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Empathy

Leadership

Analytical skills

Ruby

Swift

Google Data Studio

Java

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Led a test strategy overhaul, adopted by 70+ engineers across 8 squads, improving test automation coverage to ~91%.
Created Looker Studio dashboard for real-time monitoring of ~10K tests, providing detailed insights on failure reasons, costs, and durations.
Organized the test automation guild across the organization, facilitated ~5 guilds, and presented ~5 topics to share knowledge with ~25 engineers.
Reduced Firebase Test Lab costs by ~42% by migrating to ARM-based emulators, overcoming the speed of execution issues.
Contributed to migrating test infrastructure to local mocks, resulting in a 47% reduction in test failure rate across multiple teams.
Managed large-scale app releases across ~10 brands, reaching over ~1M users, utilizing Google Play Console and App Store Connect.

Implemented Android UI test scripts covering 30% of pre-release regression tests and mentored junior team members in script development.
Reduced production hotfixes to ~50% by advocating for technical practices like test automation, trunk-based development, and working in small batches.
Optimized CI/CD pipeline using Fastlane, GitHub Actions, and Firebase App Distribution, automating internal testing builds for 40+ users and reducing build times by 30%.
Led the refinement of scrum processes, adopted by 7+ squads and 30+ engineers, improving engineering efficiency.
Supported organization growth by hiring 5+ test automation engineers and interviewing 50+ candidates.

Picked up a working knowledge of Kotlin and Android automation infrastructure.
Wrote UI tests for new features on top of Kotlin and Espresso.

Built an Android automation framework from scratch that covered 80% of Instabug’s SDK.
Advocated for shift-left testing by mentoring 4 Android engineers to the automation framework to adopt test as you code.
Reviewed, collaborated, and shipped Instabug for Product Managers to adopt Instabug in production applications.
Authored a regression test suites document used by 9+ testers in pre-release activities.
Tested and shipped features weekly to 2B+ devices and 25K+ apps.

Developed and implemented a custom test automation framework using in-house tools, reducing manual testing efforts by 50% and improving test efficiency.
Led initiatives to decrease the time taken in regression activities by building automation proof of concept.
Worked on product features for an application that supported over 5M users.
Wrote load and performance tests to ensure high availability in test environments infrastructure.
Picked up a working knowledge of AWS and bash scripts to ship features in an internal IaaS cloud service.

Worked with engineers, testers, and mid-management to deliver high-quality software for ~11 projects.
Design, build and perform system tests with providing weekly reports to mid-management.

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