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Ali K.AK

Ali K.

Engineering Leader | AI & Engineering Consultant

€125/day
Berlin, DE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Ali

Seasoned Software Quality Engineering Leader with a decade of experience driving quality strategy and engineering excellence across complex software systems. With a strong foundation as a Senior Test Automation Engineer, I bring deep technical expertise in system interfacing, web and mobile applications, telecommunications platforms, and network protocol testing including HTTP/HTTPS and TCP/IP.

I have successfully led the design and implementation of software quality assurance strategies at scale, establishing efficient, sustainable processes that support rapid development while ensuring high product quality. I’m passionate about building and mentoring high-performing QA teams, with a strong focus on upskilling, career development, and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.

My experience includes developing robust test automation frameworks from the ground up for UI, API, event-driven systems, messaging queues, and databases, always with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, scalability, and long-term team growth. I combine a people-first leadership style with deep technical acumen to align quality initiatives with both business objectives and engineering excellence.
  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Conversational

  • French

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Berlin (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Gallup
    Head of Quality Engineering
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    February 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Leading the whole Quality Engineering function across the technology department which consists of 30 Quality engineers, with 3 managers and 1 staff level.
    Established the shift-left testing strategy and enabled the integration of the test automation into CI/CD pipelines.
    Established DORA + Quality metrics across all engineering teams to provide insights on engineering velocity and shipments quality, and built a KPI AI agent to collect those from all sources on demand and through NLP.
    Led the transformation of the Qality Engineering into AI-Embedded Quality Engineering to further more reduce the manual testing efforts and keep the Quality Engineers focus on what matters.
    Built an AI QA Agent that is capable of doing the exploration, debugging and functional testing
    Senior Leadership Head of QE Shift-left testing
  • Gallup
    Quality Engineering Manager
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    July 2024 - February 2025 (7 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Led a team of 11 quality engineers across the platform.
    Established quality processes that ensured fast feedback and reduced quality incidents.
    Testmanagement Testautomation people management Team management
  • Gallup GmbH
    Quality Engineering Lead
    CONSULTING AND AUDITS
    March 2022 - June 2024 (2 years and 3 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Lead the test automation team and initiative across the platform.
    Established a robust and scalable test automation framework covering all parts of the application, deep in the backend up until the shallowest level of the frontend.
    Java MySQL Selenium Testautomation Jenkins

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Education

  • Master of Information Management
    Haigazian University
    2015
    Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems

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