Hi there, I’m Joseph Kasule. I’m a Senior QA Engineer with a solid software development background and a passion for building high-quality, user-focused products. I’ve spent years improving product quality across fintech, retail, and enterprise systems through both manual and automated testing, with a knack for turning complex QA challenges into scalable solutions. I excel in API testing, web and mobile testing, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, performance testing, and comprehensive test planning and reporting. I enjoy collaborating with agile and cross-functional teams, leading QA initiatives, and driving a culture of quality-first engineering across organizations.…

Joseph Kasule

Hi there, I’m Joseph Kasule. I’m a Senior QA Engineer with a solid software development background and a passion for building high-quality, user-focused products. I’ve spent years improving product quality across fintech, retail, and enterprise systems through both manual and automated testing, with a knack for turning complex QA challenges into scalable solutions. I excel in API testing, web and mobile testing, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, performance testing, and comprehensive test planning and reporting. I enjoy collaborating with agile and cross-functional teams, leading QA initiatives, and driving a culture of quality-first engineering across organizations.…

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Hi there, I’m Joseph Kasule. I’m a Senior QA Engineer with a solid software development background and a passion for building high-quality, user-focused products. I’ve spent years improving product quality across fintech, retail, and enterprise systems through both manual and automated testing, with a knack for turning complex QA challenges into scalable solutions.

I excel in API testing, web and mobile testing, CI/CD pipelines, SQL, performance testing, and comprehensive test planning and reporting. I enjoy collaborating with agile and cross-functional teams, leading QA initiatives, and driving a culture of quality-first engineering across organizations.

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Skills

Experience Level

JavaScript
Expert
Python
Expert
Selenium
Expert
React JS
Expert
SQL
Expert
MySQL
Expert
Node.js
Expert
TypeScript
Expert
Vue.js
Expert
Docker
Expert
Jira
Expert
MongoDB
Expert
AWS
Intermediate
Kubernetes
Intermediate
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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior QA Engineer at Yum! Brands
April 1, 2024 - Present
Led manual testing, API testing, performance testing, and smoke/regression testing for the ordering platform to ensure seamless functionality during peak times. Coordinated with Jira and TestRail for test planning and reporting, and contributed to stability improvements across release cycles.
QA Specialist at Interswitch
June 1, 2023 - April 30, 2024
Developed test plans for new projects and delivered structured testing reports, identifying risks and progress statuses for stakeholders. Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, improving deployment reliability and reducing release cycles. Implemented comprehensive UI/UX automation using Playwright and TypeScript, achieving high test coverage across key user flows. Championed quality-first practices and automated quality checks across CI/CD pipelines.
Senior QA Engineer at LendSmart (Attune), Inc
October 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
End-to-end test automation for the LendSmart web application using Python, Selenium, WebDriverIO and Playwright; reduced regression time by 40% and improved software reliability. Conducted daily manual regression and sanity tests, identified defects early, achieving 95% test coverage across major user flows. Automated API testing for backend services, reducing API-related defects by 60%. Performed cross-platform testing for mobile applications using BrowserStack and LambdaTest.
QA Engineer / QA Team Lead at ProdPerfect, Inc
November 1, 2020 - November 30, 2022
Provided leadership to a team of QA automation engineers, overseeing training, onboarding, performance evaluations, troubleshooting, and production support. Spearheaded onboarding of 40+ new customers onto the test-development process as the pre-pilot team lead, reducing the pre-pilot period by 60%. Wrote and maintained E2E test automation across dozens of customer projects, including problem-solving with customers. Developed Python scripts to automatically normalize customer traffic, enabling efficient test case discovery from user behavior. Streamlined test creation by identifying pain points and offering practical solutions, reducing the period to reach coverage threshold from 2 weeks to 5 days.
Front-End Engineer at Uncover Africa
December 1, 2019 - November 30, 2020
Developed and maintained the inventory system as a main feature, continually enhancing its functionality and usability. Significantly reduced the application's bundle size from over 10 GB to a few KB, drastically cutting load times from over a minute to a few seconds. Designed and implemented comprehensive unit tests for critical features, advocating QA integration and reducing post-release bugs by 60%.
Software Engineer at Andela, Inc.
February 1, 2018 - December 31, 2019
Developed and delivered client-facing software solutions across multiple projects, contributing to robust backend services and responsive front-end experiences. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive quality and on-time delivery.

Education

B.S. Computer Science at Kampala International University
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2019

Qualifications

IST Certificate
January 11, 2030 - December 19, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Healthcare, Real Estate & Construction, Education, Agriculture & Mining
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