I plan test cycles, execute them by hand, and write reports stakeholders actually use to make a ship / no-ship call. Recently led a 3-person QA team through a capstone project and independently tested two additional systems end to end.
Led testing across Login, Dashboard, PIM, My Info, Performance, and Recruitment. Traced four separate-looking defects back to one root cause — unvalidated name/DOB fields across three modules — and reframed the fix as one systemic gap instead of four isolated tickets.
Ran a full manual cycle solo — test plan, case design, execution, defect log, release call. An 81.8% pass rate looked fine until the four High-severity defects turned out to sit directly on the purchase funnel: Add to Cart, Remove, and Finish all broken.
Scripted assertions (pm.test) across the full CRUD lifecycle rather than isolated endpoint checks. Caught a cosmetic status-code mismatch, but the finding that mattered was a filtered-search endpoint quietly returning results that didn't match the query.