Quality Engineering Analyst · Toronto

I find the gaps between expected and actual.

I test complex digital products across mobile, web, and APIs, then build the automation and feedback loops that help teams ship with confidence.

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Confidence, made visible.

SurfacesiOS · Android · Web

AutomationAppium · Playwright

ApproachExplore · Verify · Improve

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01 / Selected work

Useful confidence, not just more test cases.

Native mobile apps are my specialty: understanding how iOS and Android should feel, not only whether they technically work. I also bring experience structuring event taxonomies for product analytics, writing technical specifications for development teams, and working with industry-standard tools such as Jira, Firebase, and Zendesk.

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Current

CBC / Radio-Canada

Quality Engineering Analyst

Product quality at national scale

Testing the paths people rely on when the story matters.

Supporting quality across iOS and Android news experiences, internal analytics products, and collaborating in multiplatform readiness for large events like the 2026 Winter Olympics and election cycles. My work combines exploratory testing, release validation, automation with Appium and Playwright, and API-level investigation.

Mobile QA
Exploratory testing
Appium · Java
Playwright · TypeScript
GraphQL & API testing

Previous experience

Product-minded QA across fintech and community platforms.

KOHO Financial2019 — 2020

QA Lead · Toronto

Quality across a fast-moving fintech product.

Led testing for KOHO's cross-platform Ionic applications on iOS and Android. I investigated backend behaviour and tested APIs across sandbox and production environments, while helping shape features that improved customer satisfaction, product functionality, and company cost efficiency.

iOS + Android
Ionic
API testing
Fintech

Bunz2017 — 2019

QA Analyst / Lead · Toronto

Owning quality from the roadmap to release.

Oversaw software updates across iOS, Android, and web; contributed to roadmap strategy, sprint planning; and wrote feature and technical specifications. I tested front-end and back-end code while guiding the strategy for mobile test automation. Also did basic blockchain transaction testing with ERC-20 tokens and smart contracts.

Release ownership
Mobile + web
Sprint planning
Test strategy
Marketplace
Cryptocurrency

Reusable foundations

Clone the setup. Add the product.

01Mobile automation

Appium · Java

Appium Starter

A project-neutral foundation for native mobile automation: driver setup, reusable utilities, platform separation, and clear seams for your app-specific code.

iOS + Android
CI-ready structure
Project-neutral

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02Web + API automation

Playwright · TypeScript

Playwright Starter

A clean starting point for browser and API testing with reusable fixtures, sensible configuration, and patterns that can grow with a real product.

Cross-browser
Web + API
Scalable patterns

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02 / My QA philosophy

Quality starts with people.

The best QA engineers do more than find defects. They connect disciplines, represent the user, and help teams see the product as one coherent system. Building relationships with the developers, product owners, designers, and others I work with is something I value as much as my technical skills. I want to be someone people want to work with.

Collaborate first

Quality is a team sport.

Clear communication and strong relationships turn QA from a release gate into a source of shared product understanding.

Native means native

A gesture can be a requirement.

Apple's Human Interface Guidelines and Google's Material Design guidance are my practical bibles. A missing gesture or an icon that is hard to tap is as much a bug as a crash or a page that won't load because the API returned a JSON object instead of a JSON array. Pop quiz: is the standard iOS overflow icon three vertical dots or three horizontal dots? (•••) Quality also means knowing when an Android user won't recognize an iOS icon right away.

Automation + judgment

Expected paths are only the start.

Reality check: not everything can be automated, and not everything that can should be automated. It may seem like manual testing is yesterday's game, but it isn't. Exploratory manual testing is the foundation of what makes a QA a QA. Test scripts don't think like users. Every tool has its place, and all types of testing are important.

AI in my workflow

AI should work for you.

Everyone uses AI these days, but does it improve the workflow? Does it save time? Understanding model capacity, token usage, and proper prompting are what make AI work for you, not the other way around. My workflow is token conscious and incredibly productive.

01 / Build

Automation that lasts.

AI helps me write automation faster and add testTag() and accessibilityIdentifier to Android and iOS codebases. That gives my tests stable locators and makes them less flaky.

02 / Investigate

Better context, sooner.

I use it to research upcoming mobile OS upgrades, strengthen my feedback in design reviews, compile user reports, and break down crash stack traces and breadcrumbs into bug reports that help developers start a fix quickly.

03 / Collaborate

Agents with useful context.

My scripts pull Git diffs and PR comments into a ready made prompt with IDE context. An agent can address requested changes without wasting time rebuilding the story from scratch.

Knowing when to trust a response, when to iterate, and when to question its assessment is what keeps AI useful and avoids hallucination rabbit holes.

Trust, but verify.

Editorial illustration of a tester at a bar surrounded by increasingly absurd edge cases

A short story about edge cases

The classic QA joke

A QA walks into a bar.

Crawls into a bar. Dances into a bar. Flies into a bar.

INPUT_01Orders one beer.
INPUT_02Orders zero beers.
INPUT_03Orders 99,999,999,999 beers.
INPUT_04Orders a lizard.
INPUT_05Orders minus one beers.
INPUT_06Orders “ueicbksjdhd.”

The first real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames.

The joke lands because it is true: testing the inputs you expect is not the same as understanding how a real person will use the product.

03 / Who am I?

More than a set of skills.

I like to work for companies who are looking to hire a person, not just a set of skills.

Curiosity shapes how I test, but it also shapes the rest of my life. I am always learning a language, carrying a camera, reading one more chapter, or finding a reason to get beneath the surface. Those interests are not separate from how I work; they are where my attention to detail, empathy, and sense of exploration come from. So come and get to know me!

01Culture & community

Where I come from

Culture is something you participate in.

As an Indigenous person, I value opportunities to attend cultural events, powwows, language camps, and community gatherings. They keep me connected, learning, and grounded in something larger than work.

A lodge among trees at an Indigenous cultural camp — Language camp · Northern Ontario

02Reading

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Reading

One more chapter.

I am currently on book three of the Three-Body Problem series. Haruki Murakami is my favourite author, and I will happily disappear into fantasy, science fiction, adventure, or a good vintage Archie comic.

03Photography

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Photography

Rarely without a camera.

Waiting for my film to get developed reminds me that not everything has to be instant. Film is my regular dose of nostalgia. Besides, who actually looks at all the photos on their phone's camera roll?

04Scuba diving

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Scuba diving

Get beneath the surface.

I could wax lyrical about the ocean or about the transferable skills from diving to my professional life. But the truth is, every time I go down, it's terrifying but worth it. I probably read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea too much as a kid.

05Languages

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Languages

I love languages.

06Film

Film

Directors, scores, and the beautiful absence of a cut.

I love movies. If you let me talk about framing, directors, scores, or how Tarkovsky filmed that one 15-minute scene with no cuts, we will be here all day.

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04 / Connect

Let's make quality a feature.

Want to talk mobile testing, automation strategy, or a role where product thinking and quality engineering meet? Or would you like a similar portfolio for your own work? I'd love to hear from you. You can reach me directly at hello@jamin.qa.

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