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Ch.06 · The route

Seven years, one road.

Recruiter, then QA engineer, then the person building the tooling. Each stop is here with what the work actually was, the QA it involved and the tools it ran on.

Four career stops rising left to right: technical recruiter in 2019, QA engineer from 2019 to 2023, software engineer for QA from 2023, and building Aegis-QA from November 2025.
Four stops, each one the reason the next happened.
Ch.06The route

Seven years, one road.

Scroll to drive it. Each stop is where the work changed and what it was built with.

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  1. 2019Start

    Technical Recruiter

    Skillventory · Jan — Apr 2019

    Hired engineers before becoming one. Three months of screening them showed me what the job actually was.

    QA work

    • Candidate evaluation
    • Technical screening

    Languages & tools

    • —
  2. 2019Role

    QA Engineer

    Auxano Global Services · Jun 2019 — Apr 2023

    Four years, 15+ delivered projects. Where test design stopped being a template and became a skill.

    QA work

    • Manual & exploratory
    • Test case design
    • Regression
    • UAT
    • Defect triage

    Languages & tools

    • SQL
    • JMeter
    • Postman
  3. 2021Projects

    Games, e-commerce, e-learning

    TM2 · NLC · OZ Road Code · Dekabes · Moana Pasifika

    Multiplayer stability, bonus-tier maths, course purchase flows, map and speed telemetry.

    QA work

    • Real-time testing
    • Payment flows
    • Cross-device UI/UX
    • Performance

    Languages & tools

    • JMeter
    • SQL
    • WordPress
  4. 2023Role

    Software Engineer — QA

    Openxcell · Speed · Apr 2023 — present

    Crypto raised the stakes. Stopped testing screens, started testing state machines. And checking the ledger rather than the toast.

    QA work

    • Crypto payments
    • Smart contracts
    • KYB / KYC
    • API contracts
    • DB reconciliation
    • Load testing

    Languages & tools

    • Python
    • Playwright
    • Pytest
    • Appium
    • SQL
    • Newman
    • JMeter
  5. 2025Built

    Aegis-QA

    Internal tooling · Creator & maintainer · from Nov 2025

    The work was scattered across a dozen tools, so I built one place to hold all of it. Runs, API tests, SQL, Datadog, recorded scripts.

    QA work

    • Run orchestration
    • Session recording
    • Self-healing locators
    • Failure triage

    Languages & tools

    • Python 3.12
    • asyncio
    • FastAPI
    • Next.js
    • Docker
    • AI tooling
  6. NowNext

    Let’s talk about it

    A conversation, not a pitch

    If you are building something where quality is load-bearing, like payments or ledgers or anything that must not fail quietly, I would like to hear about it.

    QA work

    • Test architecture
    • Quality strategy

    Languages & tools

    • Whatever the problem needs

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Where it ran →

The crypto payment platform this route ends at, opened in full.