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Khalid Abdulkarim

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Work experience· 11 roles

Senior SDET / QA EngineerSep 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

Senior SDET in the platform Back-end team for Maritime Software. Led migration of service tests from Venom to a Go-based framework (Ginkgo, Gomega), improving test maintainability and debugging capabilities, and reducing overall execution time by 20%. Designed and executed performance and monitoring strategies using Go, gRPC, Kubernetes/EKS, k6, Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus. Managed daily QA workflows across multiple tools including Playwright, Cypress, Postman, GraphQL, Kibana, and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. Collaborated within Agile teams to ensure quality delivery and shift-left quality practices across the development lifecycle.

Senior SDET · DunelmSep 2022 – Sep 2022 · 1 mo

Senior SDET in a dynamic Agile environment. Contributed to re-platforming of the e-commerce system with serverless AWS technologies leveraging Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3. Developed and automated unit and integration tests using TypeScript, JavaScript, Mocha, Chai, and Jest. Monitored application health via Epsagon, Sentry, and Kibana, ensuring rapid defect identification and resolution within Agile frameworks. Involved in re-platforming Dunelm’s e-commerce platform using serverless technologies on AWS.

Senior SDET / QA Engineer · Maritime SoftwareSep 2022 – Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

Senior SDET in the platform Back-end team for Maritime Software. Led migration of service tests from Venom to a Go-based framework, improving test maintainability, debugging capabilities and automation efficiency. Designed and executed performance and monitoring strategies using Go, gRPC, Kubernetes/EKS, k6, Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus. Managed daily QA workflows across multiple tools including Playwright, Cypress, Postman, GraphQL, Kibana, and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. Collaborated closely within Agile teams to ensure quality delivery of cutting-edge maritime software.

SDET · DunelmSep 2022 – Aug 2025 · 3 yrs
Senior SDET · 90poeSep 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos
Senior SDET · DunelmJun 2019 – Sep 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos
QA Engineer / SDET · Third Space LearningMay 2019 – May 2019 · 1 mo
QA Engineer / SDET · Third Space Learning (Matr.org)May 2019 – Aug 2025 · 6 yrs 4 mos

Education

BEng · University of Kent2013 – 2016
B.Eng., Computer Systems Engineering · University of Kent2013 – 2016
BEng · University of Kent2013 – 2016

Certifications and awards

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner2020 – 2025

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