I build companies and run delivery. By day I'm the Technical Project Manager at Platformz — running three client platforms with a 30+ person cross-functional team — with full QA ownership and CEO/CTO/CFO/CMO & board reporting. I'm also the Founder & CEO of AZAI Labs, where we build with agents, not headcount.
Before that: six years of QA, automation, and reliability engineering for Mastercard, Kintsugi (AI tax compliance, SF — Sr. SDET), Grameenphone (MyGP), Kinetik (NYC healthcare), and global insurance clients — plus 23 Upwork jobs, every one rated ★5.0 (Top Rated).
- 🚚 Delivered a 12-month 3P hybrid EDI program in ~60 days (Amazon, Walmart, Target, Chewy)
- 🏪 FUR4 live on Chewy, Amazon, Walmart, eBay & Macy's — 5 portals on a Magento core
- 🧪 Built the complete backend automation framework for MyGP (Bangladesh's largest operator) from zero
- 💥 Ran chaos engineering on payment-critical systems at Mastercard
| Venture | What it is |
|---|---|
| 🤖 AZAI Labs | Build with agents, not headcount — AI products, services & augmented AI talent |
| 🎓 AZADEMY | Learning meets earning — practical AI & tech courses, real interviews, remote-career training |
| ✦ Personal Brand Studio | Premium personal-brand websites, built for you — live work: azantor.xyz · sharif-abid.xyz · timothymunroroberts.com |
| 🎙️ AZA Execution Podcast | Ideas are cheap. Execution is everything. |
| 📚 Listen2AZA | Audiobooks people press play on |
| 🌱 SSAS Foundation | Scholarships, mentorship & Quran education — in honor of my father |
How to read this: 🥇 = expert, my daily drivers — hire me for these. 🥈 = advanced, ship-to-production strength. 🥉 = solid working knowledge.
| Priority | Domain | What I actually do | Tools & tech |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥇 | Technical Program / Project Management | Run delivery end-to-end: roadmaps, sprint & release management, cross-team coordination of 30+ people, stakeholder reporting, risk & scope control — compressed a 12-month EDI program into ~60 days | Jira · Confluence · QASE · Kanban flow metrics · release gates · RAID logs |
| 🥇 | QA & Test Automation Engineering | Architect automation frameworks from zero (web, mobile, API), set QA strategy & release gates, lead QA teams — built MyGP's complete backend framework, run FUR4's 5-portal QA | Playwright · Selenium · Cypress · Appium · REST Assured · Postman · TestRail · Allure · BrowserStack — full QA arsenal ⬇ |
| 🥇 | AI Engineering & Agents | Build custom AI agents & agentic workflow automation (AZAI Labs), LLM apps on Claude & OpenAI APIs, MCP integrations, AI-powered QA (self-healing tests, visual AI), and teach it all via AZADEMY | Claude API · OpenAI API · MCP · AI agent frameworks · Claude Code · Applitools · prompt engineering |
| 🥈 | Software Engineering | Full-stack feature delivery: typed backends, REST/GraphQL APIs, React frontends, e-commerce (Magento) — feature lead at an AI tax-compliance startup | TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Java · Node.js · React · Next.js · GraphQL · Magento · MongoDB · MySQL |
| 🥈 | Performance & Load Engineering | Load, stress, soak & spike testing with CI-integrated thresholds — payment-critical and telecom-scale systems | k6 · JMeter · Locust · LoadRunner · Gatling |
| 🥈 | Security Testing | OWASP-based security testing, vuln scanning, pentest-style assessments as part of release QA | OWASP ZAP · Burp Suite · Kali Linux |
| 🥈 | DevOps, Cloud & CI/CD | Pipelines that gate on quality, containerized test infra, IaC | AWS (Lambda · SQS · S3 · EC2) · Docker · Terraform · Jenkins · GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Bitbucket Pipelines |
| 🥉 | Reliability & Observability | Chaos engineering on payment-critical systems (Mastercard), dashboards & alerting | Prometheus · Grafana · InfluxDB · chaos experiments |
| 🥉 | Design & Content | Design collaboration, 3D/interactive web, podcasting & video production | Figma · Three.js · Tailwind · YouTube/podcast production |
Every QA discipline I practice, in one place — 6+ years across payments, healthcare, telecom, insurance & e-commerce.
| QA Discipline | Skills & tools |
|---|---|
| 🧠 Test Strategy & Types | Test planning · test-case design · risk-based testing · exploratory testing · functional · regression · smoke & sanity · UAT coordination · cross-browser & cross-device · shift-left testing |
| 🌐 Web UI Automation | Playwright (TypeScript/Python) · Selenium WebDriver · Cypress · Page Object Model · data-driven frameworks · self-healing locators · parallel execution grids |
| 📱 Mobile QA | Appium (iOS & Android) · BrowserStack · AWS Device Farm · Xamarin Test Cloud · real-device & emulator labs · app release testing |
| 🔌 API & Integration Testing | Postman · REST Assured · Swagger/OpenAPI validation · GraphQL testing · contract & schema testing · service mocking & stubs · webhook testing |
| 📦 EDI & Supply-Chain Testing | X12 documents (850 · 810 · 856 · 997) · AS2 · 3P/marketplace integration QA (Amazon · Walmart · Target · Chewy) · order-to-invoice flow validation |
| ⚡ Performance & Load | k6 · JMeter · LoadRunner · Gatling · Locust · load, stress, soak & spike testing · CI-integrated thresholds · InfluxDB + Grafana result dashboards |
| 🔐 Security Testing | OWASP Top 10 · OWASP ZAP · Burp Suite · Kali Linux · auth & session testing · payment-flow security (Mastercard) |
| 👁️ Visual & Accessibility | Applitools visual AI · visual regression · WCAG accessibility checks · responsive/viewport testing |
| 🥒 BDD & Test Frameworks | Cucumber/Gherkin · TestNG · JUnit · PyTest · Jest/Mocha · fixtures & factories · keyword-driven design |
| 📋 Test Management & Process | TestRail · QASE · Jira/Xray-style workflows · Allure reporting · defect triage · release gates · QA metrics (escape rate, flake rate, coverage) |
| 💥 Reliability & Chaos | Chaos engineering on payment-critical systems · failure injection · monitoring-driven QA (Prometheus/Grafana) |
| 🤖 AI-Assisted QA | Self-healing test suites · AI test generation · visual AI · agentic QA workflows (AZAI Labs) |
| 🏭 Domain Expertise | E-commerce (Magento, 5-portal marketplace ops) · payments/fintech · healthcare (NYC) · telecom (Bangladesh's largest operator) · insurance · civic tech (OpenCRVS) |
- Build agents that do real work — custom AI agents & multi-agent workflows for QA, ops, and business automation (AZAI Labs: build with agents, not headcount)
- LLM application engineering — Claude & OpenAI APIs, MCP servers/integrations, prompt engineering, evals
- AI-powered quality — self-healing test suites, visual AI testing (Applitools), AI test generation
- AI-assisted delivery — agentic coding workflows (Claude Code) baked into real production teams
- Teach & train — AI courses, workshops and real interview prep via AZADEMY
- 📘 qa-roadmap — the complete QA curriculum (Manual · Automation · AI · API · Performance · Security): a gamified site from zero to Sr. QA, with real examples, an AI + MCP capstone, and my AZADEMY courses
- 🎮 my-portfolio — azantor.xyz: gamified 3D portfolio (XP, achievements, living résumé)
- 🧪 playright-qa-automation---industry-grade — industry-grade Playwright framework
- 📈 Fur4-Load-Testing-K6 — k6 load-testing suite for the FUR4 platform
- 🐳 playwright-e2e-docker-aws — EcomTestPilot: Playwright E2E in Docker on AWS
| 🏅 Badge | Top Rated |
| ✅ Jobs completed | 23 |
| ⭐ Rating | 5.0 on every single job — no exceptions |
| 🌍 Clients | US, UK & global — healthcare, fintech, e-commerce, telecom, insurance |
| 🔗 Hire me | upwork.com/freelancers/~01b1ba72ba57683f43 |
| Service | What you get |
|---|---|
| 🧭 Fractional TPM / Delivery Lead | Roadmap prioritization, cross-team coordination, stakeholder reporting — chaos in, shipped products out |
| 🧪 QA & Automation Consulting | Manual + automation strategy, framework builds, API/security/performance testing, release-gate setup |
| 🤖 AI Agents (AZAI Labs) | Custom agent development & agentic workflow automation for quality and operations |
| 🎤 Instruction & Speaking | AI & tech courses, podcast guesting/hosting, event MC, interview coaching |
| 🧑💼 Hiring & Technical Interviews | Technical screening, hiring scorecards, interview-prep coaching |
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