Open to QA & SDET opportunities

QA at heart.
Quality by design.

I’m James Ryan Gaid, a QA Engineer. I test software, automate checks, and help teams release with confidence.

Currently at Amihan Solutions

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QUALITY ASSURANCE IS MY CRAFT

A tester’s instinct.
An eye for what breaks.

I’m a Quality Assurance Engineer with ~4 years of experience making software more reliable. I build maintainable testing frameworks and connect them to CI/CD pipelines so issues get caught early.

Currently at Amihan Solutions, working on Oracle APEX applications. I’m also pursuing the PJPT certification to take my security testing further.

~4
Years in QA & automation
~40%
Faster release validation

The tools behind it.

Test automation

  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • Selenium
  • K6
  • Postman
  • APIDog

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python

CI/CD & tooling

  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker
  • Azure DevOps
  • Jenkins
  • Git
  • Jira

Security & reporting

  • OWASP ZAP
  • Burp Suite
  • Allure
  • Xray
  • Qase

A career in
quality assurance.

From hands-on testing to scalable automation and QA team leadership.

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Experience

QA & Test Engineer

Amihan Solutions

2026 - Present
  • Lead end-to-end and API test coverage across multi-team releases.
  • Design scalable Playwright frameworks with CI gating on quality metrics.

Junior SDET

Theoria Medical

2025 - 2026
  • Built automated regression suites that cut release-validation time by ~40%.
  • Integrated Playwright + GitHub Actions with PR-level test reporting.

SQA Engineer

Theoria Medical

2023 - 2025
  • Owned manual and automated QA for a HIPAA-adjacent clinical product.
  • Partnered with developers on test-first workflows and flake reduction.

Lead QA Engineer

Innovuze Solutions

2023
  • Mentored the QA team; established bug triage, test-case standards, and a reporting cadence.

QA Engineer

Innovuze Solutions

2022 - 2023
  • Authored API and UI tests (Postman, Selenium) across web and mobile projects.

Education

BS Information Technology

University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines

2018 - 2022
  • Focused on software engineering and QA practices; competed in DICT inter-university hacking competitions.
  • 3rd place, DICT hacking competition.
  • Capstone: Bureau of Fisheries Management System.

Credentials

PJPT

TCM Security

In Progress

Off the clock.

These are hobby projects I explore through vibe coding with AI tools, plus a personal test automation suite. My professional focus is quality assurance, not product development.

A closer look at the work.

Deep dives on testing and engineering. New writing coming soon.

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Your next release.
More confidence.

Looking for a QA Engineer or SDET? Let’s talk about your team and its testing challenges.

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