Sana Nawaz

Senior QA Engineer moving into software development — bringing 5+ years of testing high-traffic production systems, now writing the code instead of just breaking it.

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About

Why I'm moving from QA into development

Five years at Booking.com taught me how software actually breaks — API contracts, data integrity, edge cases nobody wrote a ticket for. I spent that time writing automation scripts, querying databases, and debugging production issues, which is closer to development than people assume. This site is me formalising that shift: every line of it is code I wrote myself, mobile-first, tested the way I'd test anything else I shipped.

Skills

Test suite: current capability

PASS

HTML5 & CSS3Semantic markup, responsive layout with Flexbox/Grid, mobile-first media queries — this page.

IN PROGRESS

JavaScriptDOM manipulation, event handling, and small interactive features — the nav toggle and terminal animation on this page are hand-written, no framework.

IN PROGRESS

PlaywrightBrowser automation, building on years of TestCafe scripting at Booking.com.

PASS

Test Automation & API TestingTestCafe, Postman, JMeter, SQL — five years of daily use validating production systems.

PASS

Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)Led quarterly accessibility audits; this site follows semantic HTML and keyboard-navigable practices as standard.

Experience

Where this comes from

2025 - Present

Career break & Upskilling
Building Playwright, JavaScript and HTML/CSS skills; building this site as the first shipped piece of it.

2020 - 2025

Senior Software Test Engineer, Booking.com
Sole embedded QA engineer across 10–20 services; automation, API testing, accessibility audits.

2013 - 2020

FDM Group - DWP, Barclays, Babcock International
Integration testing, UAT leadership, mobile and backend validation across finance, government and defence.

Projects

What I am building

This site

Hand-written HTML/CSS/JS, mobile-first, no framework. Source on GitHub.

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Playwright practice suite

In progress - Build playwright automation tests for this site

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Continuous Learning

Keeping the suite green

IN PROGRESS

Playwright Web Automation

Udemy

IN PROGRESS

The Complete JavaScript Course

Udemy

COMPLETE

HTML & CSS Fundamentals

W3Schools

Contact

Lets talk

Open to Open to junior developer and QA automation roles — hybrid or remote, Manchester-based. Hybrid or remote opportunities welcome.

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