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·telecom · Celfocus · 2025–now
·fintech · Nomo Fintech · 2022–2025
·e-commerce · Capiter · 2020–2022
·events · Eventtus · 2019–2020
·pharma · Eye ADV · 2018–2019
5 passed · 0 failed · 5 domains
QA LEAD · QUALITY ENGINEERING & TEST STRATEGY · CAIRO, EGYPT
I build QA functions and set test strategy for complex, multi-team platforms, from the first requirement to the release call.
0 → 13
QA engineers hired, onboarded and mentored when I built the QA function at Capiter.
Lead QA at Celfocus
Leading the Egypt QA team and the client's QA team on a tier-1 telecom's always-on cloud platform.
8+ yrs
Telecom, fintech, e-commerce, events and pharma.
12
Interns through a 3-day QA bootcamp I designed at the Celfocus EDC.
ISTQB CTFL v4
Testing with Generative AI (CT-GenAI) in progress.
What I do
Quality leadership from the first design conversation to the final release decision.
Test strategy and release readiness
End-to-end strategy and sign-off criteria for complex, multi-team platforms.
Coverage from design, before code
Turning incomplete requirements and design documents into risk-based coverage, and challenging designs before defects reach execution.
Integration, UAT and performance
Planning cycles across vendors, markets and environments, and bringing performance into scope when it was missing.
Building QA teams
Hiring, onboarding and leading QA teams, including distributed and client-side teams, with quality management systems that squads actually adopt.
Career map
Five domains. One compounding practice of building stronger quality systems.
2018–2019
Eye ADV
pharma · Test EngineerSet up core QA processes, Selenium and Postman
2019–2020
Eventtus
events · QC EngineerMobile QA across Android, iOS, APIs and web
2020–2022
Capiter
e-com · Acting Chapter LeadBuilt the QA function from 0 to 13 engineers
2022–2025
Nomo Fintech
fintech · Senior → QA LeadLed a QA team across Egypt and India; QMS and release criteria
2025–now
Celfocus
telecom · QA LeadLeading QA teams in Egypt and on the client side; performance in scope
QA Lead today — Test strategy · release calls · building teams · GenAI with human judgment
Would you ship it?
Every release call I make rests on evidence. Toggle the signals and watch the gate decide.
Critical user journeys covered by regressionThe paths customers rely on have current evidence.
No open Sev-1 or Sev-2 defectsRelease-blocking defects are resolved or explicitly accepted.
Performance baseline met under production-like loadCapacity and response times match the agreed baseline.
Integration and UAT signed off by the businessConnected systems and business outcomes are accepted.
Rollback plan testedRecovery is proven, not just documented.
Monitoring and alerts in placeThe team can see and act on problems after release.
RELEASE DECISIONNO-GO
Risk-based, not checkbox-based: the blockers change with the release.Blocking: Rollback plan tested · Monitoring and alerts in place
Five domains, one discipline
The context changed. The habit stayed: make quality visible, measurable and shared.
- Lead the QA team at the Egypt Delivery Centre across several client projects, and lead the client's own QA team on the current engagement.
- Own end-to-end quality strategy for a tier-1 telecom client's always-on cloud platform, in a phased multi-market rollout.
- Design coverage for a multitenant, event-driven microservices architecture, building scope from design documents.
- Brought performance testing into scope and own it end to end with JMeter and Datadog.
- Designed a 3-day QA internship bootcamp for 12 interns.
GenAI, with the judgment kept human
Completed the ISTQB Testing with Generative AI course with ISTQB President Dr. Klaudia Dussa-Zieger, and Microsoft's course on generative AI and agents.
“Drafting and reviewing test design, analysing results, and speeding up the repetitive parts of the test lifecycle.”
- 01Every AI-generated test or finding gets evaluated before it counts.
- 02Risks are named and controlled, not assumed away.
- 03A person still makes the release call.
Toolbox
Tools chosen to make risk clear, feedback fast and delivery dependable.
Automation
API & performance
Data & delivery
Ways of working
Credentials
ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level (CTFL v4)2026
ISTQB Testing with Generative AI (CT-GenAI)IN PROGRESS
Microsoft: Introduction to generative AI and agents2026
ICAgile Certified Professional2020
B.Sc. Computer Science, El Shorouk Academy2017
From colleagues
“He always viewed requirements from the customer's perspective rather than just validating what developers built.”
“Everyone who has worked with him, including his seniors, always got to learn something new from Moaid.”
“Excellent at critical thinking, debugging issues and problems out of the box, managing people technically and professionally.”