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I am Bahram Zamani Barnet, a software engineer with over 20 years of experience, based in London since 2010. I have spent my career focused on software quality engineering and test automation within agile environments, delivering deep hands-on expertise across the testing pyramid and evolving into an SDET and test automation specialist known for technical excellence and strategic impact. I’m passionate about reliability, engineering quality, and embedding quality early in the development lifecycle while designing robust automation frameworks and promoting shared ownership of quality across teams. In my next role I’m targeting senior and leadership positions such as Lead / Staff / Principal SDET, Test Architect, Head of Test, or Engineering Manager, where I can shape quality strategy, mentor engineers, and influence large-scale, complex software systems.…I am Bahram Zamani Barnet, a software engineer with over 20 years of experience, based in London since 2010. I have spent my career focused on software quality engineering and test automation within agile environments, delivering deep hands-on expertise across the testing pyramid and evolving into an SDET and test automation specialist known for technical excellence and strategic impact. I’m passionate about reliability, engineering quality, and embedding quality early in the development lifecycle while designing robust automation frameworks and promoting shared ownership of quality across teams. In my next role I’m targeting senior and leadership positions such as Lead / Staff / Principal SDET, Test Architect, Head of Test, or Engineering Manager, where I can shape quality strategy, mentor engineers, and influence large-scale, complex software systems.

Bahram Zamani

Web Developer, Full Stack Developer, QA Engineer, +3

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I am Bahram Zamani Barnet, a software engineer with over 20 years of experience, based in London since 2010. I have spent my career focused on software quality engineering and test automation within agile environments, delivering deep hands-on expertise across the testing pyramid and evolving into an SDET and test automation specialist known for technical excellence and strategic impact. I’m passionate about reliability, engineering quality, and embedding quality early in the development lifecycle while designing robust automation frameworks and promoting shared ownership of quality across teams. In my next role I’m targeting senior and leadership positions such as Lead / Staff / Principal SDET, Test Architect, Head of Test, or Engineering Manager, where I can shape quality strategy, mentor engineers, and influence large-scale, complex software systems.…I am Bahram Zamani Barnet, a software engineer with over 20 years of experience, based in London since 2010. I have spent my career focused on software quality engineering and test automation within agile environments, delivering deep hands-on expertise across the testing pyramid and evolving into an SDET and test automation specialist known for technical excellence and strategic impact. I’m passionate about reliability, engineering quality, and embedding quality early in the development lifecycle while designing robust automation frameworks and promoting shared ownership of quality across teams. In my next role I’m targeting senior and leadership positions such as Lead / Staff / Principal SDET, Test Architect, Head of Test, or Engineering Manager, where I can shape quality strategy, mentor engineers, and influence large-scale, complex software systems.

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I am Bahram Zamani Barnet, a software engineer with over 20 years of experience, based in London since 2010. I have spent my career focused on software quality engineering and test automation within agile environments, delivering deep hands-on expertise across the testing pyramid and evolving into an SDET and test automation specialist known for technical excellence and strategic impact. I’m passionate about reliability, engineering quality, and embedding quality early in the development lifecycle while designing robust automation frameworks and promoting shared ownership of quality across teams.

In my next role I’m targeting senior and leadership positions such as Lead / Staff / Principal SDET, Test Architect, Head of Test, or Engineering Manager, where I can shape quality strategy, mentor engineers, and influence large-scale, complex software systems.

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Work Experience

Staff Quality Engineer at BP International (bp Pulse programme)

July 1, 2024 - Present

Led the Quality & Test squad and defined a global quality and testing strategy across UK, Germany, and US. Drove shift-left automation across eMSP and CPO workstreams, established shared ownership of SIT tests, and built a cohesive automation framework (Mobile: Appium, WebdriverIO, Mocha; Web: Playwright). Led internal and beta production testing for payments validation and real flows across multiple networks.

Staff SDET at DAZN

September 1, 2018 - April 1, 2024

Designed and implemented custom, data-driven test frameworks, simulators, and tooling to support SIT of microservices in a backend JavaScript/Node.js/TypeScript AWS environment. Built scalable automation adopted across the organization, enabling faster releases and improved reliability. Migrated CI/CD from Drone to GitHub Actions and contributed to frontend automation; implemented performance/load testing with k6.

Principal Quality Engineer at Capital One

July 1, 2016 - August 1, 2018

Led end-to-end testing framework design (Protractor, Mocha, Cucumber-JS) for web apps, supported API/UI test coverage, and contributed to performance testing. Mentored SDETs and developers, and helped drive cross-team automation improvements.

Principal Automation Engineer at Bookatable

September 1, 2015 - July 1, 2016

Designed and delivered API and UI automation using SoapUI NG (Groovy/Java) and C#, SpecFlow, Selenium. Built regression coverage for key user journeys, integrated automation into CI (TeamCity), and conducted exploratory testing at API/UI layers.

Senior Consultant at SQS Group

January 1, 2015 - August 1, 2015

Developed automated test solutions for Universal Music Group (Studio Hub) using C#, SpecFlow, Selenium, NUnit; built HTTP-layer integration tests and leveraged SQL Server for querying application logs to improve defect investigation.

QA Engineer at ION Trading

April 1, 2013 - January 1, 2015

Automated acceptance tests for FX Trade Manager and FX Pricer using Robot Framework; employed BDD-style test design with defined keywords; built integration tests over HTTP and used SQL for data verification.

Software Engineer in Test at Ammeon UK

October 1, 2011 - April 1, 2013

Built Python-based integration and functional tests for Ericsson Linux IT Platform; automated infrastructure GUIs with Selenium; developed data-processing and functional tests using Python, Shell, Hive, and Hadoop for large-scale analytics.

Software Engineer at Tavani Co

January 1, 2002 - January 1, 2008

Developed internal web applications (ASP, JavaScript, HTML) and administered SQL Server/Oracle databases; led a small engineering team responsible for corporate websites, intranets, and FTP services.

Staff Quality Engineer at BP

July 1, 2024 - Present

Led the Quality & Test squad for the bp Pulse programme across the UK, Germany and US, driving a shift-left automation strategy across eight development teams. Designed and implemented left-shifted SIT testing for mobile and backend workstreams, enabling shared ownership of automated tests between developers and SDETs, significantly improving collaboration, maintainability, and early defect detection. Automated critical user journeys, provided fast feedback on PRs, and optimized regression via CI pipelines.