Profile
Farooq Azam Cheema
Quality assurance
QA at Golfunctions. Treats every release like a production incident waiting to happen — and stops it before users become the testers.
- Now Quality assurance, Golfunctions
- Base Lahore, Pakistan
- Bar Go / no-go before production
Experience
How he keeps
releases honest.
Test plans, automation, API checks, and a clear sign-off — aligned with engineering and design on what “done” means.
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Present
Quality assurance
Golfunctions
Owns release confidence across Golfunctions products — including Loykor and client web platforms. Sits with product and engineering so issues land early, not in production.
- Risk-based test plans mapped to real user flows, not vanity coverage.
- Regression suites that protect known-good paths on every release.
- API QA on auth, payments, and documentation services before staging is signed off.
- Precise, reproducible bug reports and triage so engineers can fix fast.
- Clear go / no-go on staging builds — no silent “ship it and see.”
Practice
What he
guards.
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Test strategy
Coverage by risk: web, API, and the money and legal paths that cannot fail.
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Automation
Jest and Playwright suites in CI that fail the build when they should.
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Exploratory & regression
Human judgment where scripts are blind — plus structured re-test cycles.
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Release gates
Sign-off before go-live so users are not the last test environment.
Stack
Tools in
daily use.
- Test plans
- Regression
- Exploratory QA
- Jest
- Playwright
- API QA
- Postman
- Bug triage
- Release sign-off
- Browser & device checks