Haroon Sheikh
Senior Test Engineer at Sky
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHaroon Sheikh is a Senior Test Engineer based in Leeds with over 10 years of hands-on experience designing and executing testing strategies for major UK enterprises including Sky, Barclays and Vodafone. He combines strong technical skills in Java, SQL and UNIX with pragmatic QA leadership—building test plans, automating processes and coordinating onshore/offshore teams to deliver high-quality releases. At Sky he has grown into senior roles since 2014, and earlier work at Barclays included contributions to award-winning mobile banking projects and process-improving mini-applications. An active contributor to the open-source Gauge testing framework, he’s implemented backend features such as environment variable handling and case-insensitive tag filtering that improve test flexibility and reliability. Known for attention to detail and clear stakeholder communication, he excels at turning complex designs into robust, auditable test suites.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science (Industrial), Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science (Industrial) at University of Leeds
Urdu, Punjabi
Github Skills (19)
automation10
go10
automations10
test-automation10
testing9
env9
mstest9
environment-variables9
acceptance-testing9
teste9
testkit9
env-vars9
ui-testing9
behavior-driven-development9
debugging7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
getgauge/gauge
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
Light weight cross-platform test automation
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:63 reviews, 5 commits, 85 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Haroon primarily contributed to the backend of the Gauge testing framework by implementing features related to environment variable handling and log file management. They addressed issues, such as setting environment variables based on the selected environment and handling absolute paths for log directories. Further, they improved the framework by integrating case-insensitive tag filtering for more flexible test execution, enhancing the testing capabilities of the project.
acceptance-testinggolanglight-weighttest-automationlight
sitture/commit-status
Jul 2019 - Nov 2021
A React based simple app that shows a list of projects with their Github commit status and use it as a dashboard to view status of your CI pipelines.
Contributions:30 reviews, 48 commits, 83 PRs in 2 years 4 months
reactci-statusstatusci-pipelinessimple-app
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