Jawad R.

Experience

1. Lead Software Test Engineer

   Qci. More Than Technology. Understanding

   Jul 2024 — Present

   Wrote and maintained comprehensive unit, integration, and functional test suites using pytest, increasing code reliability and catching regressions early in the CI/CD cycle* Integrated pytest with CI tools to enable automatic test execution on pull requests and deployments* Created mocked services and API clients using pytest-mock and unittest.mock to simulate external dependencies and isolate components during testing* Designed and orchestrated scalable ETL pipelines using Apache Airflow, enabling automated data ingestion, transformation, and scheduling across distributed systems* Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, supporting containerized deployments via Docker and Kubernetes* Integrated and optimized GraphQL and REST APIs, enabling efficient data retrieval for platform services and improving frontend/backend interaction.* Designed dashboards and KPIs in Grafana to monitor service performance, API response times, and business-critical metrics* Tuned SQL queries and database indexes for high-performance data access, reducing query latency and improving application responsiveness

Education

• Iowa State University

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering

  2019 — 2021

• Iowa State University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Engineering

  2015 — 2019