Iqra Shafiq
About Iqra Shafiq
Iqra Shafiq is a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer who leads a team of four QA engineers at SlashNext, focusing on UI and API testing. She has a background in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Computer Science, with experience in healthcare and phishing applications.
Work at SlashNext
Iqra Shafiq serves as a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer at SlashNext, a role she has held since 2021. In this position, she leads a team of four QA engineers within a Scrum environment. Her work primarily focuses on UI and API testing, utilizing Java and Selenium. She contributes to the SlashNext CMS project, which delivers real-time phishing protection and email security services to over 1,000 clients, including notable organizations like DXC Technologies.
Previous Experience at Freelancer.com
Before joining SlashNext, Iqra Shafiq worked as a Test Engineer at Freelancer.com from 2018 to 2019. This role was conducted remotely and lasted for one year. During her time there, she gained valuable experience in software testing and quality assurance, which has contributed to her current expertise in the field.
Education and Expertise
Iqra Shafiq holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Lahore College for Women University, where she studied from 2010 to 2014. She furthered her education by obtaining a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, from 2017 to 2019. Currently, she is pursuing a comparative study of different operating systems in cloud computing at the same university, working on a review paper since 2017.
Technical Skills and Tools
Iqra Shafiq employs a diverse tech stack in her quality assurance work. She utilizes tools such as Cypress, Mocha, and JIRA for regression and user acceptance testing. Additionally, she has experience using AWS and Azure for testing both microservices and monolithic applications across various environments. Her strong passion for building secure and high-performance applications is evident in her focus on healthcare and phishing applications.