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Sarine Kizhisseri Abdul Azeez

Sarine Kizhisseri Abdul Azeez

Doha

Summary

QA Test Lead with extensive experience in manual and automation testing within the Banking domain. Proficient in Selenium WebDriver (C#), BDD (SpecFlow), API testing (Swagger) and end-to-end validation. Led offshore QA teams, reduced regression testing time by 60% and integrated automation into CI/CD pipelines. Demonstrated ability to deliver high-quality enterprise applications while managing the full testing lifecycle and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

QA Test Lead

Mphasis Limited
09.2011 - Current
  • Led QA initiatives for large transaction, high impact trading projects in the Banking and Retirement Services domain for one of the largest investment banks.
  • Strong domain expertise in Capital Markets, Banking and Investment Brokerage, with specialized knowledge in Retirement Planning Services, including 401(k) plans.
  • Demonstrated expertise in processing financial transactions such as contributions, distributions, in service withdrawals, fees and transfers involving ETFs, non-ETFs, stocks, dividends and loans.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Owner and BA to understand business requirements and translate them into clear, actionable, and testable scenarios for the QA team—ensuring alignment, efficiency, and zero defect leakage into production
  • Good Knowledge of Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) on waterfall and Agile, actively participating Sprint Planning, Daily Standup's, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives and Backlog Grooming.
  • Built and executed over 500+ manual and automation test cases, covering Exploratory, Shift left, Functional, Regression, Integration, Performance and UAT testing for web and desktop apps
  • Designed a Hybrid SeleniumWebDriver (C#) framework using POM, reducing regression testing time by 60%; integrated this with CI/CD pipelines (Bamboo) for automated nightly builds to promote maintainability and reusability of test scripts.
  • Tested 25+ REST APIs using Swagger in microservices and Angular-based UI applications using Selenium validating end to end workflows for financial transaction accuracy.
  • Performed performance, comparison and backend validations across 5+ SQL upgrades and system migrations from Delphi to .Net reducing critical production defects by 100%.
  • Monitored bug tracking, resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
  • Led automation framework committee and mentored a team of 35 QA engineers on automation best practices and framework improvements.
  • Mentored a team of 8 QA engineers on coding best practices, automation strategy and framework enhancements to improve test quality, maintainability, and team capability..
  • Generated detailed test metrics, dashboards and defect reports for understanding team performance and for stakeholders review.
  • Recently, I expanded my scope as a Software QA Analyst and AI Trainer, applying my QA expertise to AI systems—validating AI models and improving model accuracy.


Software QA Analyst- AI Trainer

Micro1-Freelance
08.2025 - Current
  • Expanded my scope as a Software QA Analyst - AI Trainer applying my QA expertise to AI systems—validating AI models and improving model accuracy.
  • Evaluated AI generated responses for factual accuracy using predefined rubrics across testing domains

Education

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Mahatma Gandhi University
Kerala, India
05-2011

12th (CBSE) - undefined

Vidyodaya School
Kochi, Kerala
03.2007

10th (CBSE) - undefined

Vidyodaya School
Kochi, Kerala
03.2005

Skills

  • Manual Testing- Exploratory, Functional, Regression, Usability, Performance, Security, UAT, Production Validation, Shift Left Testing
  • Selenium Webdriver, SpecFlow, Nunit, MSTest, PageObjectModel, Hybrid, DataDriven framework, BDD
  • API Testing, Swagger, Postman, Microservices, MS SQL
  • Agile, Waterfall, SDLC, STLC, Grooming, Planning, Retrospective Scrum
  • Product Management, Leadership, People Management, Mentoring, Training, Test Metrics and Dashboards, Cross Functional collaboration, Offshore Lead, QA Lead, Automation Tester
  • JIRA, Zephyr, Confluence, MS Test Management Tool, Team Foundation Server
  • Banking, Retirement, third party advisors, financial transactions, batch processing, Capital Markets, Dividend processing, cards, Assets, Liability
  • CI/CD, Bitbucket, Git, Bamboo
  • Net, C#,Visual Studio

LANGUAGES

English - Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Malayalam - Native or Bilingual Proficiency
Hindi - Full Professional Proficiency

Hobbies and Interests

Ailurophile, Travelling, Foodie

Affiliations

  • Mphasis Limited (09/2011 - Present)
  • Associate Software Engineer / Delivery Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer / Test Lead -QA Strategist

Hobbies

Doodling, Paint by Numbers, Traveling, Ailurophilia- Cat lover

Timeline

Software QA Analyst- AI Trainer

Micro1-Freelance
08.2025 - Current

QA Test Lead

Mphasis Limited
09.2011 - Current

12th (CBSE) - undefined

Vidyodaya School

10th (CBSE) - undefined

Vidyodaya School

Bachelor of Technology - Information Technology

Rajagiri School of Engineering & Technology, Mahatma Gandhi University

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