Muhammad Ali Butt

About Muhammad Ali Butt

Senior QA Automation Engineer with 7+ years of Automation and manual testing experience…

Experience

1. Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

   Cigna Healthcare

   Jul 2022 — Present · St Louis, MO, US

   I worked closely with BAs and product owners to understand the functional side of each story so I could writesmarter, targeted test cases that covered both edge cases and critical workflows.Joined all the key Agile ceremonies — daily stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, retros — and contributed updates, testestimates, and helped refine QA tasks in JIRA.set up QA tests with Maven andJenkins so we could run nightly regressions as part of our CI/CD pipeline.Designed a complete API testing framework using Karate, which helped us validate claims, member login, andpolicy updates with quick turnaround and low maintenance.Also worked with REST Assured and Postman when deeper validation was needed or when we had to chainrequests with authentication and dynamic data.Built and maintained test scripts for manual testing, I regularly performed smoke, functional, exploratory, and regression testing in environmentslike DEV, QA, UAT, and PROD. I’d log issues directly into JIRA and tagged the right teams to keep things movingquickly.Used SQL to validate backend data, especially after submitting claims or updating user info — making sure what wesaw on the UI matched the database.Handled ETL validations — reviewed mapping documents, wrote test cases for data loads, and validated record-level transformations during daily batch runs.Created BDD test cases using Cucumber so that non-technical folks like product managers could understandIntegrated our tests with AWS environments, ensuring services deployed on EC2 were behaving as expected and

Education

• The University of Lahore

  Bachelor's degree

• IGlobal University

  Master's degree