Mohammad Mufeez Ahmed

Test Architect | AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional | Lead SDET
📍 Hyderabad, Telangana, India 📧 mufeezchitguppa@gmail.com 📞 00918861710458 🔗 linkedin.com/in/mufeezahmed 💻 github.com/Mufeez

Professional Summary

Test Architect with an AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certification and deep-rooted expertise in Quality Engineering (SDET). Specialized in architecting comprehensive test strategies, validation frameworks, and quality-first approaches for scalable, multi-tenant e-commerce platforms and high-availability cloud infrastructures. Unique ability to bridge test architecture with system architecture, having grown QA engineering teams from 1 to 7 members and secured first-million-dollar milestones for startups through superior quality delivery. Expert in designing test architectures, enterprise integrations (Tally/Zoho/RazorPay/Livekit/Exotel), and building robust automation frameworks that reduce validation cycles by up to 90%, directly impacting time-to-market and product reliability.

Core Competencies

Test Architecture (Primary): Test Strategy Design, Framework Architecture (POM), Validation Ecosystems, Quality-First Approach, Test Automation Architecture, Test Infrastructure Design
Quality Engineering: Webdriver.io, Cypress.io, API Validation, Performance Testing, CI/CD Integration, Test Data Management, End-to-End Testing
System Architecture & Design: Multi-tenant Design, Microservices Architecture, Blue-Green Deployment, Cloud Native, SOA, API Ecosystems, Scalable System Design
Third-Party Integrations: Enterprise Integration Design (Tally, Zoho), API Integration Architecture, Financial Data Synchronization, IoT Platform Integration, Payment Gateway Integration
Cloud & DevOps: AWS (Pro Certified), GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, IaC, Auto-scaling, Test Infrastructure, Deployment Strategies

Professional Experience

Test Architect & Lead SDET September 2021 – Present
Ibexlabs Hyderabad, India
  • Built and led the QA engineering team from 1 to 7 members, establishing test architecture best practices that directly contributed to the acquisition of the first 40+ Enterprise customers and $1M revenue through superior quality delivery.
  • Architected 4+ test automation frameworks from scratch using POM patterns, reducing validation time from 2 days to 30 minutes (96% improvement), enabling rapid release cycles and faster time-to-market.
  • Architected comprehensive test strategy and validation frameworks for a responsive e-commerce platform serving 1500+ users across App Store and Play Store, ensuring quality delivery and zero critical defects in production.
  • Designed test architecture for deployment strategy on Kubernetes (GKE), for highly available test environments.
  • Designed AWS APN mock system architecture for testing and validation of AWS services, significantly improving system quality and allowing us to get our first enterprise customers.
Lead Software Development Engineer in Test March 2019 – September 2021
ValueLabs Hyderabad, India
  • Architected test strategy for Digital Transformation initiatives, designing comprehensive validation frameworks for seamless data migration from SQL to NoSQL, reducing post-launch issues by 40% through proactive test coverage and risk mitigation.
  • Architected comprehensive test validation ecosystems using Webdriver.io and Cypress.io, establishing test architecture patterns that achieved a 60% reduction in validation cycles and 30% improvement in product reliability and stability.
  • Led test architecture design and quality engineering practices, championing cross-functional collaboration to deliver a high-quality SaaS product to 100+ Enterprise users with zero critical production defects.
Senior Software Development Engineer in Test November 2018 – March 2019
ABB Bangalore, India
  • Architected test strategies and validation frameworks for API architectures across IoT Edge devices in 10+ industries using the ABB Ability IoT platform, ensuring reliability and compliance in critical industrial environments.
  • Designed and implemented automated API test architecture using C#, Rest Assured, and SpecFlow, establishing reusable test patterns that improved validation efficiency by 40% and reduced regression cycles.
Software Development Engineer in Test May 2017 – November 2018
Tech Mahindra Hyderabad, India
  • Architected comprehensive test validation strategy for Outlook Plugin APIs, designing test frameworks that slashed turnaround time from 2 days to 10 minutes (96% improvement), enabling rapid iteration and faster feature delivery.
  • Recognized for rapid test framework architecture mastery, learning and implementing new testing stacks within 2 months, establishing best practices and reusable test patterns for the organization.
System Test Engineer & Innovation Lead (Award Winner) July 2012 – February 2017
Siemens Bangalore / Munich
  • Won prestigious awards for proposing real time system architecture strategies for Cloud Computing platforms in Munich, Germany, securing $200,000 in prototyping funding through innovative latency reducing approaches.
  • Proposed system architecture strategies leading to 2 disclosed inventions and 8 cloud computing ideas and identified 400+ critical bugs during product lifecycle, preventing significant production issues.

Licenses & Certifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (July 2023 – July 2026)
ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (International Software Testing Qualifications Board)

Honors & Awards

Inspire All Awards (2022 & 2023): For exceptional leadership in test architecture and bridging quality engineering with system architecture at Ibexlabs.
Second Place, SIEMENS Cloud Ideas Contest (Munich): For architectural excellence in cloud management.
Finalist, Siemens Hackathon: PoC for supply chain optimization using Data Analytics.

Education

RV College Of Engineering 2008 – 2012
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering