Summary
Umar Farooq is a Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer with over 18 years across multidisciplinary projects and more than 14 years focused on software testing and assurance. He has led development of test automation frameworks for a decade and brings hands-on expertise in functional, integration, system, regression and UAT across Android, iPhone, cloud, embedded and network security applications. As a technical leader he has built and mentored QA teams, managed QA labs and test-beds, and driven process design and ISO 9001:2008–aligned quality improvements. His career spans senior engineering roles in semiconductor and software firms and long-standing tenure at Kualitatem where he shapes testing strategy and execution. Umar pairs deep technical testing craft with people leadership—estimating and allocating complex efforts, conducting audits, and resolving cross-team defects to keep releases on track. He also blends formal quality training (CSQP) with a physics and computer science academic background, giving him an analytical edge in troubleshooting hard-to-reproduce defects.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MCS, Computer Sciences, MCS, Computer Sciences at University Of Central Punjab
MSc, Physics, MSc, Physics at University of the Punjab
Certified Software Quality Professional, Software Quality Management, Certified Software Quality Professional, Software Quality Management at Pakistan Institute of Quality Control
Institute of Leadership and Management
English, Urdu