👤 About the Author

The short version: I’m Arifuzzaman “Antor” — a QA engineer turned delivery leader and founder. I spent 6+ years testing payment, healthcare, telecom and e-commerce systems, grew from Junior QA to QA Lead to Technical Project Manager, and now build AI products. This roadmap is everything I wish I’d known on day one. 🌐 azantor.xyz

Who I am today

Remote-first from Dhaka, Bangladesh, working across Dhaka, New York, San Francisco and London. My one-line mission: the person who turns chaos into shipped products.

The journey — Junior QA → Lead → TPM → Founder

I didn’t start at the top. I climbed the exact ladder this roadmap describes, often holding several roles at once (6+ calendar years, 12+ roles):

What I’ve actually shipped

• 💳 Mastercard — chaos engineering & reliability testing on payment-critical systems, where the tolerance for silent failure was effectively zero
• 🏥 Kinetik — QA Lead on a US NEMT healthcare platform (13M+ trips, $1.1B+ in claims processed); published the iOS & Android member apps to both stores; 26,840+ completed rides in the pilot I owned QA for
• 🛒 Platformz / FUR4 — led a 30+ person cross-functional team; delivered a 12-month 3P EDI program in ~60 days across Amazon, Walmart, Target, Chewy, eBay & Macy’s; run QA for 3 live client platforms (FUR4, Rockerz, DMV Raw Feeders)
• 📱 Grameenphone (MyGP) — QA for Bangladesh’s largest mobile operator; built backend automation from zero
• ⚡ REVE Systems (Sothik) — performance +60%, critical defects −30%
• 🏛️ Government & civic tech — OpenCRVS (UN-backed civil registration, Cypress automation), IPEMIS (education MIS), Sothik (AI Bangla spell-checker, QA lead)
• ⭐ Upwork — 23 jobs, every one rated ★5.0, Top Rated status

The industries I’ve tested in

Healthcare (NEMT) · Payments / Fintech · Insurance · Telecom · E-commerce · Government / Civic Tech · AI / SaaS

What I build now

Beyond client work, I run a small constellation of ventures:

• 🤖 AZAI Labs — AI products & agents (build with agents, not headcount)
• 🎓 AZADEMY — learning meets earning for CS careers
• 🎙️ AZA Execution Podcast — long-form builder conversations
• 📚 Listen2AZA — audiobooks in Bangla & English
• 🌱 Silent Sacrifice Abdus Sattar Foundation — scholarships, mentorship & Quran education, in honor of my father

Skills at a glance

Languages: TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Java · C++ · PHP Testing & QA: Playwright · Cypress · Selenium · Appium · Postman · REST Assured · GraphQL Performance: k6 · JMeter · LoadRunner · Locust · InfluxDB · Grafana DevOps & Cloud: AWS · Terraform · Docker · Jenkins · GitLab CI · GitHub Actions Security: OWASP ZAP · Burp Suite · Kali Linux AI: AI agents · MCP + Playwright · LLM evals · prompt engineering Leadership: program & delivery management · agile/scrum/kanban · cross-team coordination · C-suite reporting · hiring & mentoring

Education

• B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering — Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (2017–2020)
• HSC (Science), GPA 5.00 — Shahid Syed Nazrul Islam College (2016)
• Coursera: Machine Learning Specialization · Programming for Everybody (Python)

Why I made this roadmap

Most QA guides teach definitions. I wanted to teach the job — the thinking, the artifacts, the judgment, and the career — the way I actually lived it, from my first test case to leading teams and hiring testers. Every template and example here is a cleaned-up version of something I’ve used on real projects. If it helps one person get hired or promoted, it’s done its job.

Find me

📬 arifuzantor@gmail.com · 🌐 azantor.xyz · 💼 LinkedIn · 🐙 GitHub · ⭐ Upwork (Top Rated)

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