QA Engineer & Test Automation Specialist — building toward DevOps & Platform Engineering

📍 London, UK  •  LinkedIn  •  Email

I'm a QA Engineer with 3+ years' experience building automated test suites and CI/CD-integrated quality gates for large-scale open-source platforms (ownCloud, OpenProject/Nextcloud integration). I've worked across the full test lifecycle — functional, regression, API, and pre/post-release validation — and I care a lot about catching problems before they reach production.

What I love most about that work is the automation itself — pipelines, tooling, making releases faster and more reliable. That's what's pulling me toward DevOps: I've been building hands-on personal projects with cloud, containers, and Infrastructure as Code (AWS, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD) to work closer to the systems my tests run against.

MSc Software Engineering. Currently in London on a Graduate Visa (valid to Nov 2028) — open to roles in London or Telford.

• Test Automation / QA Engineer roles — where I can bring proven, production experience from day one
• Junior DevOps / Platform Engineer roles — where I can grow into infrastructure and delivery, backed by real automation instincts and self-directed cloud projects

Test Automation Engineer — JankariTech, Nepal · Dec 2021 – Jan 2025

• Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Drone CI) automating test and release validation for the ownCloud and OpenProject integration with Nextcloud open-source platforms
• Ran automated application/environment checks to verify release readiness, catching defects before deployment
• Developed deployment and test scripts to make release validation consistent and repeatable across environments
• Optimised pipeline performance through caching and parallelisation, cutting build times and speeding up feedback loops
• Investigated and resolved pipeline/environment issues across distributed Agile teams

Test Automation & QA

CI/CD & Automation

Cloud & Infrastructure — self-taught, project-based

Languages & Web

Self-directed projects where I'm applying my automation background to infrastructure and delivery.

• gitops-k3s-aws — End-to-end GitOps pipeline on AWS: Terraform provisions the infra, Ansible bootstraps K3s, GitHub Actions builds/scans/pushes images via OIDC, and ArgoCD auto-deploys the app, with Prometheus/Grafana monitoring on top.
• shipflow-gitops — GitOps delivery workflow using ArgoCD for automated, auditable deployments.
• aws-infras-terraform-1001 — Modular AWS network setup (VPC, subnets, security groups) with an S3 + DynamoDB remote-state backend.
• ansible-aws-webapp — Multi-tier app on AWS EC2 (Nginx, Node.js/Express, MySQL), provisioned with Ansible and gated by a GitHub Actions CI pipeline.

Writing: Containerising a web app with Docker Compose

Open to Test Automation, QA Engineering, and junior DevOps/Platform Engineering roles in the UK.