Shoaib Ahmed Quraishi

Lead Test Engineer & SDET Architect

I build enterprise-scale automation platforms, AI-powered QA solutions, and scalable testing frameworks that accelerate software delivery while improving quality.

About Me

Architecting Bulletproof Continuous Quality

I'm a QA Architect and Lead SDET with over 12 years of experience leading test automation strategy and building the frameworks that let engineering teams ship faster with confidence. I design the Web, API, and Mobile automation architecture that automation teams build on, not just the test cases that run inside it.

My focus is turning slow, unreliable regression cycles into fast, dependable ones: parallelizing execution, standardizing framework design across teams, and integrating automation into CI/CD from the ground up. Most recently, that's meant applying the same rigor to AI-assisted testing workflows, using tools like Model Context Protocol (MCP) to extend what automation can validate.

12+

Years Experience

75%

Regression Runtime Cut

Enterprise

Automation Frameworks

Work Experience

Professional Timeline

ACX

Lead Test Engineer

Designed a Java + Playwright automation framework for Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) email validation. Built a proof-of-concept email audit engine that checks HTML structure, links, CTAs, and broken images, with axe-core accessibility scans integrated into the pipeline.

Jan 2026 - Present
QNT

QA Architect & Lead SDET

Architected a C#/.NET Selenium framework for web and an Appium + Sauce Labs framework for mobile. Parallelized execution to cut full regression runtime from 8 hours to 2 hours (75% faster), and reduced mobile regression time to a third by running across all 3 Sauce Labs device licenses in parallel. Also containerized the automation stack with Docker and integrated it into GitLab CI/CD.

2019 Aug - 2026 Jan
FCT

Automation Engineer

Automated backend and REST/SOAP service testing for FactSet's OnDemand product using Python and ReadyAPI, including the Python Dev Toolkit and R Plugin interface, cutting the manual verification work needed before each release.

2018 Aug - 2019 Aug
TCS

Software Engineer (QA & Automation)

Built Selenium and Java automation scripts covering Web, Mobile, IVR, and backend job interfaces for enterprise clients including Western Union, with structured defect tracking in ALM and service virtualization via CA Lisa to keep releases moving without waiting on dependent systems.

2014 Jan - 2018 Aug

Checkout My Latest Work

Custom Tooling, Core Framework Engines & Automation Labs

AI Evaluation Research Lab

LLM Evaluation & Safety Lab

A self-driven project exploring LLM evaluation and AI guardrail testing. Used Promptfoo and DeepEval to evaluate a locally hosted LLM for SQL generation, testing safety guardrails, identifying syntax edge cases, and comparing automated evaluation results with deterministic validation.

Promptfoo DeepEval Ollama Python Pytest LLM Evaluation AI Guardrails
AI Agents Active Lab Repo

Playwright MCP Server

A Java-based MCP server that lets an AI agent drive a real Chromium browser: record a user's clicks and form fills, play the session back with self-healing waits, and auto-generate a full Cucumber BDD test framework (feature files, step definitions, page objects) from what it recorded.

Java Playwright Cucumber BDD Model Context Protocol
Validation Architecture Production Engine

Email Audit Engine

Automatically catches broken marketing emails before they go out: dead links, missing images, and malformed HTML across screen sizes. Built with Java and Playwright to replace manual, click-through email QA with a repeatable automated check.

Java 17 Playwright HTML Validation
Full-Stack App Web Application

QuizMaster

A full-stack quiz and assessment platform: admins author quizzes and manage their lifecycle, students attempt them and get instant auto-scored results. Built end-to-end with a React frontend, a Spring Boot/JWT-secured API, and PostgreSQL, including CSV-based bulk question import.

React 19 Spring Boot 3 PostgreSQL JWT Security
Cloud Utilities Enterprise Tooling

SFMC Automation Harness

A reusable test harness for Salesforce Marketing Cloud: execution modules and configurable runtime parameters that let a QA team validate SFMC payloads and API responses without rebuilding setup for every campaign.

Automation Testing Salesforce Cloud API Assertions

Technical Proficiencies

Core Architectural Skill Matrix

Automation Engineering

Framework design across Web & Mobile

Playwright Selenium Appium SpecFlow / BDD Parallel Execution

Programming & API

Languages & service-layer testing

Java C# / .NET Python Rest Assured RestSharp / Refit

DevOps & Cloud

CI/CD pipelines & device cloud

Docker GitLab CI/CD Jenkins Azure DevOps Sauce Labs

Quality Engineering

Accessibility & MarTech validation

axe-core / WCAG Salesforce Marketing Cloud JMeter SQL Agile / Scrum
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Let's Connect

Interested in scaling up automated framework lifecycles, optimizing test executions, or discussing custom AI agent testing server architectures? Reach out through any of the channels below.