Imran Akram
QA Lead at Equal Experts
Bolton, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolImran Akram is a seasoned QA Lead with over 18 years in software engineering and quality assurance, currently shaping API platform quality at HMRC and leading delivery-focused testing at Equal Experts. He brings deep expertise across Waterfall and Agile teams, test automation, CI, performance testing and API validation using tools like Selenium WebDriver and modern stacks including Java, C#, Scala and RESTful services. Imran has led automation and CI initiatives for financial and e-commerce giants (GE Capital, JD Sports, MoneySuperMarket) and introduced test automation frameworks as a head of QA, demonstrating a track record of improving release confidence at scale. He pairs hands-on technical skills with strong people leadership—mentoring teams, resolving conflicts and driving customer-focused quality practices under pressure. Known for adaptability and a continual learning mindset, he combines a University of Manchester computer science background with ISEB/ISTQB certification to bridge engineering and quality strategy. Outside of enterprise delivery, he has built full lifecycle web projects from concept to live support, showing both technical breadth and practical product sense.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (17)
serenity-bdd9
automation-testing9
testing7
api-platform7
cucumber7
api7
postman7
rest-api6
nodejs6
rest6
serenity6
bdd6
selenium6
lifecycle6
test-automation5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hmrc/api-platform-jobs
Jun 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 review, 22 PRs, 19 pushes in 4 years 8 months
hmrc/api-platform-test
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 review, 48 commits, 48 PRs in 4 years 7 months
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