Tinika is a Senior QA Engineer with 8 years of experience, driving quality across high-growth startups and enterprise-scale environments with a proven track record of building and scaling QA functions from the ground up, leading shift-left quality initiatives, and embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Experienced in test automation, release management, production support, and cross-functional collaboration across modern web and mobile platforms. Tinika is recognized for combining strong technical expertise with a product and customer-focused mindset, with hands-on experience in automation framework development, complex defect investigation, payment and analytics testing, and managing high-impact production releases. She thrives in fast-paced agile environments where adaptability, communication, and proactive problem-solving are essential to delivering reliable, high-quality software experiences.

Tinika Pasinetti

Tinika is a Senior QA Engineer with 8 years of experience, driving quality across high-growth startups and enterprise-scale environments with a proven track record of building and scaling QA functions from the ground up, leading shift-left quality initiatives, and embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Experienced in test automation, release management, production support, and cross-functional collaboration across modern web and mobile platforms. Tinika is recognized for combining strong technical expertise with a product and customer-focused mindset, with hands-on experience in automation framework development, complex defect investigation, payment and analytics testing, and managing high-impact production releases. She thrives in fast-paced agile environments where adaptability, communication, and proactive problem-solving are essential to delivering reliable, high-quality software experiences.

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Tinika is a Senior QA Engineer with 8 years of experience, driving quality across high-growth startups and enterprise-scale environments with a proven track record of building and scaling QA functions from the ground up, leading shift-left quality initiatives, and embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
Experienced in test automation, release management, production support, and cross-functional collaboration across modern web and mobile platforms.

Tinika is recognized for combining strong technical expertise with a product and customer-focused mindset, with hands-on experience in automation framework development, complex defect investigation, payment and analytics testing, and managing high-impact production
releases. She thrives in fast-paced agile environments where adaptability, communication, and proactive problem-solving are essential to delivering reliable, high-quality software experiences.

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Work Experience

Senior QA Engineer / Release Manager / Customer Operations at Chronicle
July 1, 2024 - Present
Establishing and scaling end-to-end quality and customer-operations functions in a high-growth startup; driving quality initiatives with shift-left testing across web and mobile platforms; building and maintaining automation frameworks using Playwright and Cypress; performing API testing and validation across core product workflows; managing daily deployments and root-cause analysis of complex production and customer-reported issues; collaborating with engineering, product, and operations teams to improve product quality and delivery.
Senior QA Engineer at Afterpay / Cash App
July 1, 2021 - February 1, 2024
Led QA delivery within a cross-functional team across mobile applications and large-scale initiatives; defined test strategy, test planning, and automation framework development using Cypress and Cucumber; performed API and database testing, root cause analysis, and drove quality initiatives across the product lifecycle; collaborated with product strategy, backlog grooming, requirements definition, and feature planning while coaching team members on QA practices and testing processes.
Senior QA Engineer at Kumu
March 1, 2024 - July 1, 2024
Led the end-to-end QA function for Kum u’s web and mobile applications across tests strategy, planning, execution, release coordination, defect management, and post-production verification; responsible for API and database testing, root-cause analysis, automation framework development using Cypress and Cucumber; drove quality across the product life cycle; collaborated with stakeholders on product strategy, backlog grooming, requirements definition, and feature planning while coaching team members on quality practices and test processes.

Education

Bachelor of Applied IT at La Trobe University
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

Qualifications

Foundation Certificate, ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications Board
January 11, 2030 - May 18, 2026
ISQI Certified Agile Essentials
January 11, 2030 - May 18, 2026
Tosca Automation Specialist Level 1
January 11, 2030 - May 18, 2026
CompTIA A+
January 11, 2030 - May 18, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services, Other

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