QA Engineer / Softwaretester · Test Automation Engineer · ISTQB CTFL v4.0 · Berlin 🇩🇪
ISTQB-certified QA Engineer with ~1.5 years of hands-on experience in manual testing and test automation of web and API applications in agile Scrum teams. I build maintainable UI test suites with Playwright, Selenium and Cypress, test REST APIs with Postman and REST-Assured, and run tests in CI/CD pipelines.
🇩🇪 Deutsch C1 · 🇬🇧 English B2 · 🇫🇷 Français B2 · Arabic (native) 📍 Berlin – open to roles across Germany (on-site, hybrid, remote) · available immediately
- Manual & exploratory testing of new features from the user's perspective
- Test case design from user stories and requirements (120+ documented test cases)
- Regression, smoke and end-to-end tests, manual and automated
- UI test automation with Playwright, Selenium and Cypress (Page Object Model, BDD/Cucumber)
- API testing with Postman and REST-Assured
- CI/CD integration with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins and Docker
- Test & defect management with Jira, Xray, Confluence and Allure Reports
- AI-assisted test development with GitHub Copilot and Claude Code
Results at ITGate Group: 40 % less manual regression effort through automation · ~20 % fewer production defects.
| Project | What it shows | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| selenium-web-testing | UI test automation framework with Page Object Model, explicit waits, headless runs and a GitHub Actions workflow | Java 17 · Selenium 4 · TestNG · Maven |
| qa-automation-framework | BDD and Pytest test framework with Page Object Model, plus a Playwright module | Python · Selenium · Playwright · Behave · Pytest |
| qa-cicd-project | Headless Selenium UI test running automatically in GitHub Actions on every push | Python · Selenium · GitHub Actions |
Test automation: Playwright · Selenium WebDriver · Cypress · WebDriverIO · TestNG · JUnit · Pytest · Cucumber / Behave (BDD)
API testing: Postman · REST-Assured · SoapUI
Programming: Java · Python · JavaScript · SQL
CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions · GitLab CI · Jenkins · Docker · Maven · Git
Test management: Jira · Xray · TestRail · Confluence · Allure Reports
Cloud: AWS · Microsoft Azure
AI tools: GitHub Copilot · Claude Code
- ISTQB® Certified Tester – Foundation Level (CTFL v4.0)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- Oracle Certified Professional – Java SE 17 Developer
- Spring Certified Professional
🎓 Master's degree in Cybersecurity – recognized in Germany by ZAB/KMK as equivalent to a German Master's degree.
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/wassim-boubaker
- 🌍 Portfolio: boubakerwassim.github.io
- 📧 E-Mail: wassim.boubaker12@gmail.com

