.png){kind=logo}
AK
Alifya Kitabi
Senior QA Engineer specializing in SaaS payments and legal tech
San Diego, CASenior QA Engineer22 years experienceSeniorLegal TechSaaSFinTech
ScreenedReferences VerifiedIdentity VerifiedStrongly Recommended
Connect with Alifya
Alifya already has a relationship with Reval, so a warm intro from us gets a much better response than cold outreach.
Recommended
Already have an account?
About
QA professional from fintech/SAP security and complex identity systems who has owned end-to-end testing across the SDLC, including being the sole QA on a high-risk payment platform carrier migration. Demonstrated strength in integration testing, data integrity validation, and diagnosing calculation/automation defects using controlled test data and scripted date emulation; experienced with JIRA/TestRail and Selenium-based regression coverage.
Experience
Senior QA EngineerAffiniPay (now known as 8am)
Senior QA EngineerCoreLogic
QA EngineerCoreLogic
QA AnalystLinsco Private Ledger Financial
SAP Test Engineer (Contract)Virsa Systems (acquired by SAP)
Business/UAT Analyst (Contract)State Street Bank
Web Developer (SQL and PHP)UCLA - Design Media Arts Dept
Research Assistant (SQL and Crystal Reports)New Jersey Institute of Technology
Education
New Jersey Institute of Technologymaster, Management Information Systems
Key Strengths
- Sole QA ownership of a payment platform carrier migration end-to-end
- Strong integration and interdependency testing for complex systems
- Quality risk management focused on transaction failure prevention and robust error handling
- Data integrity and data mapping validation across systems/databases
- Methodical bug isolation using controlled test data and date-emulated script runs
- Disciplined Agile QA collaboration (design reviews, groomings, daily coordination, retrospectives)
- Clear defect documentation with evidence (screenshots/dates) and follow-through to re-verification
Reference Highlights
Strongly Recommended
- Amazing at figuring out edge cases
- Go-to tester for exploratory testing
- Very detail-oriented
- Communicative with the team
- Deep domain experience
- Fast learner
- Great teammate
- Friendly and approachable
- Asks questions and drives productive discussions
- Improves quality and reduces risk
- Excellent bug reports (10/10)
- Amazing at communicating and giving feedback
- Deep knowledge of product/module details (billing module)
- Exceptionally invested and dedicated
- Strong fundamentals of quality assessment
- Curious and explores uncommon paths
- Thinks like QA as the last line of defense before release
- Extraordinarily good collaborator with developers/designers/product managers
- Clarifies complex business logic effectively (trust balance calculations)
- Detailed and exhaustive test cases
- Strong prioritization of functional areas for testing
- Caught high-impact invoice miscalculation early (prevented impact to ~10,000 firms)
- Very effective and detail-oriented with test plans and documentation
- Mindful of usability; tests beyond happy paths to edge cases
- Respectful communicator
- Prioritizes impact over opinions
- Uses data to support findings
- Open to others' input
Discover more candidates like Alifya
Search across thousands of pre-screened, high-quality, high-intent candidates on Reval.
Search Talent