PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE QA Tester & Analyst — Contractor · Sophilabs · Remote2021 – 2025 Embedded QA across multiple client engagements, supporting web and mobile product teams from requirements through release. Payfare — QA Analyst2022 – 2024 Owned end-to-end quality for a digital banking and instant-payout platform serving gig economy workers across North America — covering web, iOS, and Android across multiple release cycles. Drove functional, regression, exploratory, and API testing (Postman) for each release; used Android Studio, Xcode, and BrowserStack for cross-device and cross-OS validation. Authored and maintained test cases, test plans, and QA documentation; triaged and tracked defects through their full lifecycle in Jira, keeping stakeholders informed at each stage. Partnered directly with product and engineering to clarify acceptance criteria, surface edge cases early, and unblock development — reducing late-stage defect discovery. Moneythink — QA Analyst2021 – 2023 Tested web applications delivering financial decision tools to students; executed exploratory, regression, and API testing across multiple release cycles, consistently identifying defects before go-live. Proposed and documented usability improvements surfaced during testing; reviewed user stories and acceptance criteria with product to close requirement gaps before development. Mentored a junior QA tester through onboarding, accelerating their ramp-up on processes and tooling; actively participated in Sprint planning and agile ceremonies. AFS Logistics — QA Analyst2021 – 2022 Planned and executed test cycles covering functional, regression, and API scenarios for a logistics management platform, ensuring release readiness across key workflows. Documented testing processes and workflows in Confluence; coordinated with cross-functional teams to align on scope, timelines, and quality criteria before each release.