Ismael Niada
QA Automation Engineer | SDET | Automation, API & UI Testing | Python & SQL | CI/CD | U.S. Army Veteran
- Role
- Qa Automation Engineer at Cisco
- Location
- Fairfax, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ismael Niada
Senior QA Engineer with 9+ years of experience across manual and automation testing, delivering quality solutions in healthcare, retail, and financial systems. I design test strategies, write test cases, lead exploratory/regression/UAT, and build scalable automation frameworks with Selenium, Cypress and PlaywrightSkilled in embedding quality into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps), validating UI, API, backend, and ETL workflows, and ensuring cross-browser/device reliability with BrowserStack and LambdaTest. Experienced with SQL and Python for data validation and process automation, ensuring end-to-end data accuracy across mainframe, DB2, and cloud systems.Core strengths:• Manual QA: Test planning & strategy, exploratory & regression, UAT facilitation, defect triage (Jira/Xray/TestRail).• Automation: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium/WebdriverIO, REST Assured, CI/CD integration.• Data Validation: SQL/Python, ETL checks (staging to final tables), DB2 to SQL to API to UI consistency.• Collaboration: Partner with Dev/Product early to build testable features, mentor QA/SDETs, publish quality metrics.Wins: Reduced manual regression effort by 30–40%, cut post-deployment issues by 35%, and lifted sprint delivery confidence by 25%.Expanding expertise in data engineering practices (Azure, AWS, Databricks, dbt, Airflow) to strengthen hybrid QA + Data Engineering contributions.U.S. Army Veteran — disciplined, calm under pressure, and mission-focused bringing adaptability, and accountability to high-impact QA and hybrid QA+DE roles.
Experience
Qa Automation Engineer
Jan 2026 — Present · Raleigh, NC, US
Contract role supporting Cisco engineering teams through Actalent.
Education
University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Bachelor's degree, Economics
2005
Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
Master's degree, Accounting and Finance
2015
University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Master's degree, Economics
2006
Northern Virginia Community College
Associate's degree, Business Administration and Management, General
2011
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