Available for Senior QA Automation roles

Christopher Akiki

Senior QA Automation Engineer

5+ years building scalable automation across web, mobile, and APIs — with Playwright, Katalon, and AI-accelerated workflows.

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5+
Years in QA
40%
Test efficiency lift
30%
Coverage increase
5
Companies shipped to

About

Quality is a craft, not a checkbox.

Senior QA Automation Engineer with 5+ years of experience across manual and automated testing in multiple domains. I specialize in end-to-end testing, frontend validation, backend & API testing, regression coverage, and building scalable automation frameworks with Playwright and Katalon Studio. I leverage Claude Code to accelerate the creation and refinement of Playwright tests, and I bring strong skills in test strategy, defect management, Agile/Scrum delivery, and growing QA teams through mentoring and process improvement.

Whether I'm wiring up Playwright suites that gate releases, mentoring a new tester through their first sprint, or pairing with Claude Code to scaffold a regression pack in minutes — my goal is the same: ship software the team can trust.

Career

A timeline of testing impact

Five roles across maritime SaaS, fintech, retail tech, and product platforms — always raising the bar on automation.

  1. Senior QA Automation Engineer

    Aspire Software / GTMaritime

    Aug 2025 – Present
    • Design, develop, and maintain Playwright automation for end-to-end testing across critical business workflows.
    • Leverage Claude Code to accelerate Playwright automation, generate coverage ideas, refactor scripts, and improve maintainability.
    • Validate frontend, backend, and API layers to ensure full-stack quality, integration reliability, and a consistent user experience.
    • Run functional, regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing, analyze failures, and collaborate with developers to resolve defects.
    • Support QA recruitment, onboarding, and mentoring — sharing automation best practices and improving team processes.

  2. Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

    Novelus / Yuvo

    Oct 2022 – Apr 2025
    • Conducted regression testing and analyzed automation reports, leading to a 15% decrease in post-deployment issues.
    • Logged and tracked defects in Azure DevOps and partnered with developers to reduce bug resolution time by 25%.
    • Authored detailed test plans, strategies, and cases for web and mobile apps, increasing test coverage by 30%.
    • Designed and maintained automated test cases in Katalon Studio, improving test efficiency by 40%.

  3. Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

    Equadis SA

    Apr 2022 – Oct 2022
    • Built automated test scenarios to validate API and UI functionalities.
    • Documented bugs in JIRA and coordinated with dev teams for resolution.
    • Enhanced test coverage and maintained automated suites for recurring tests.

  4. Quality Assurance Analyst

    IDS FinTech

    Sep 2021 – Apr 2022
    • Designed and executed manual test cases across fintech products.
    • Identified software issues and reported them via internal bug-tracking tools.
    • Participated in sprint planning and reviews in an Agile environment.

  5. Junior QA Engineer

    BIM POS

    Jan 2021 – Sep 2021
    • Performed functional, regression, and user acceptance testing on POS systems.
    • Developed QA documentation and executed test plans for POS workflows.
    • Reproduced bugs from client reports and communicated findings to developers.

Toolbox

Skills & tools I reach for

The stack I rely on to design, automate, and run quality at scale.

Automation & Testing

PlaywrightKatalon StudioTestRigorSikuliXPostman

Test Management

JIRAAzure DevOpsTestRailTuskr

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptGroovyPythonHTMLCSSC++C#

Practices

End-to-End TestingAPI TestingRegressionCI/CDAgile / ScrumMentoringClaude Code

Impact

Numbers that moved because of better QA

Selected outcomes from automation work, test strategy, and team collaboration.

15%
Fewer post-deployment issues

Through deeper regression coverage and automation report analysis.

25%
Faster bug resolution

Tight defect tracking in Azure DevOps and dev collaboration.

30%
Increased test coverage

Detailed test plans and strategies for web and mobile apps.

40%
Better test efficiency

Designed and maintained automated suites in Katalon Studio.

Background

Education & languages

Education

  • Notre Dame University – Louaize (NDU)

    Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

    2015 – 2019

  • L'Athénée De Beyrouth

    Lebanese Baccalaureate — General Sciences

    2000 – 2015
Languages
  • ArabicNative
  • EnglishFull Professional Proficiency
  • FrenchFull Professional Proficiency
Interests
Formula 1FootballGaming

Contact

Let's build something reliable together.

Open to senior QA automation roles, consulting, and conversations about scaling test practices.

christopherakiki@hotmail.com+961 76 647 481LinkedIn profile
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