Irfan Ahmad

Quality engineering leader

I've spent 14+ years in software quality and 7+ years leading quality engineering teams — building test automation, release engineering, DevOps and SRE functions.

I write about leadership, test automation and careers in QA. I also created CheckOps, a directory of test automation tools.

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Writing

• 1 May 2026Is QA a Good Career in 2026? An Honest Look
• 15 Dec 2025The QA Engineer Role in the AI Era: 2025 Year in Review
• 14 Apr 2025Comprehensive Logging and Reporting in Cypress (Part 3)
• 10 Apr 2025Building Maintainable Cypress Tests with Page Object Model (Part 2)

Talks

• Jul 2016Testing as a Container — Selenium Conference India, Bangalore
• Nov 2016Think inside Container — Selenium Conference UK, London
• 2018Testing as a Chat — Selenium Conference India, Bangalore

Work

• From manual checks to agentic quality engineering
• Founding quality engineering and release automation
• Self-serve releases on Kubernetes