Zakiyah B Salia
QA Engineer
Accra
Summary
Quality Assurance professional with 4 years of experience leading manual and regression testing for web and mobile applications. Skilled in building test repositories, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring seamless end-to-end testing. Known for driving process improvements, maintaining high quality standards, and achieving consistent performance benchmarks.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work history
QA Supervisor for Emerging Projects
Hubtel
Accra
06.2023 - Current
- Promoted to QA Supervisor 4 months into QA Engineer role for leading cross-functional testing efforts that maintained a 95+ monthly quality index.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams (developers, product managers, designers) to set acceptance criteria and resolve defects early, improving release quality.
- Directed repository building for test cases and plans, with constant updates for product improvements, simplifying regression cycles and making end-to-end testing seamless.
- Authored a structured QA training manual used to onboard new testers and standardise testing practices.
QA Tester (Part-Time)
NATION
New York
09.2022 - 01.2025
- Performed Smoke, Sanity and Regression tests on applications.
- Advised development team on strategies that best appeal to end users who have little to no knowledge on DAOs (Decentralized
- Autonomous Organisations).
- Identified bugs and wrote bug reports for development team.
- Reviewed requirements, specifications and design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.
QA Lead
Effect Studios
Accra
08.2020 - 06.2023
- Cooperated with the development team to write test cases for 30+ company projects.
- Supervised and authored bug-tracking documentation with 100% closure rate.
- Coordinated with development team to beat multiple project launch deadlines.
- Participated in design reviews and requirement analyses of company projects.
- Maintaining thorough documentation of test plans, test cases, and test results.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science - Completed
University of Ghana
Ghana 10.2024 - 09.2025
Skills
- Manual Testing (Smoke, Sanity, Regression, Exploratory, UAT)
- End-to-End Testing & Cross-Platform Validation
- Test Planning, Test Case Design, and Repository Management
- Usability Testing
- API Testing with Postman
Research experiences
Research experience in AI, developing and evaluating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image classification in Akan (low-resource language context).
Tools
- JIRA, ClickUp, Asana, Notion
- Familiarity with Selenium
Timeline
Master of Science - Computer Science - Completed
University of Ghana
10.2024 - 09.2025
QA Supervisor for Emerging Projects
Hubtel
06.2023 - Current
QA Tester (Part-Time)
NATION
09.2022 - 01.2025
QA Lead
Effect Studios
08.2020 - 06.2023