Current Positioning
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer with hands-on experience in release readiness, execution discipline, and quality-driven delivery support.
Lead QA Engineer • Delivery Coordination • Release Governance
Lead QA Engineer supporting complex releases through QA strategy, risk visibility, and cross-team delivery coordination.
I’m Jeremiah Capistrano, a Lead QA Engineer focused on release readiness, QA strategy, and delivery coordination across transaction-heavy and enterprise-integrated platforms. I help teams track risks, align stakeholders, validate payment integrations, CRM, ERP, HRIS, analytics, and customer-facing transaction workflows, and prepare releases before they go live.
Open to QA leadership, Senior QA Individual Contributor, and project delivery roles that connect quality, readiness, and team coordination.
- Supported 12 client go-live and release readiness cycles through QA tracking, stakeholder checkpoints, and quality follow-through
- Mentored 15+ QA engineers and supported 12+ client support members during execution and operational readiness
- Helped align QA work to release milestones, dependencies, blockers, and cross-team delivery needs
Quick Overview
What a recruiter should know first
Career Direction
Building toward project management through hands-on ownership of QA timelines, release dependencies, risk visibility, stakeholder updates, and cross-team delivery coordination.
What I’m Known For
Quickly understanding integrated product workflows across payment integrations, CRM, ERP analytics, and HRIS, adapting to working styles, and helping teams turn complex systems into practical QA coverage, risk visibility, release readiness, clarity, control, and confidence.
Best Fit Roles
Primary QA fit, with delivery-focused paths
Primary Fit
Secondary Fit
Impact
Fast proof of value
Supports structured delivery
Aligned QA execution to release timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder checkpoints across client go-live and readiness cycles.
Learns systems quickly
Adjusts QA strategy and coordination approach based on the system, team, and workflow in front of him.
Surfaces issues early
Keeps blockers, readiness gaps, and quality concerns visible before they become release problems.
Drives quality follow-through
Brings consistency through planning, validation, reporting, and close coordination with stakeholders.
Project Delivery Strengths
Support across release planning and execution
- Release readiness tracking
- Stakeholder updates
- Risk and blocker visibility
- Milestone-based QA planning
- Cross-team coordination
- Go-live support
Experience
Career timeline and supporting detail
Lead Quality Assurance Engineer | January 2025 - Present
Leading QA strategy and execution while supporting release readiness, cross-team coordination, and quality-focused delivery across complex systems.
- Led QA strategy and execution across 12 client go-live and release readiness cycles, supporting structured risk tracking, stakeholder updates, pre-release validation, and post-release quality follow-through.
- Helped plan QA work against milestones and communicated readiness, blockers, and risks early.
- Created and maintained requirements traceability matrices to align Product requirements, test coverage, validation results, defects, and release readiness decisions.
- Mentored 15+ QA engineers and supported 12+ client support members on execution quality and operational readiness.
Earlier in the same organization: Quality Assurance Engineer | October 2023 - December 2024
- Owned functional, integration, transaction, API, and regression coverage across critical customer-facing and backend workflows.
- Used Postman and automation scripts to streamline repetitive validation tasks.
- Supported stable releases through structured validation and issue reporting.
Quality Assurance Analyst, Associate
Built and maintained automation coverage that reduced manual testing effort while keeping the framework aligned with evolving product requirements and delivery timelines.
- Maintained automation scripts and execution stability through version-controlled updates.
- Supported functional, integration, regression, and security-related test coverage.
- Analyzed execution results and helped validate fixes, enhancements, and releases.
Application Development Associate
Supported business-focused testing through script development, unit testing, patch impact analysis, regression coverage, and structured validation around enterprise change delivery.
- Built test scripts from functional requirements and grouped them into real-world scenarios.
- Performed unit testing ahead of downstream end-to-end and UAT cycles.
- Assessed vendor patch risks and validated post-deployment behavior.
Skills
Hands-on QA and delivery capabilities
Hands-on QA Execution
Hands-on QA coverage across functional, integration, regression, UAT, exploratory, smoke, sanity, unit-level, mock, performance, load, stress, and accessibility testing.
API, Data & Workflow Validation
API validation, backend workflow testing, SQL-based data checks, defect investigation, and troubleshooting across payment integrations, CRM workflows, ERP analytics, HRIS, and customer-facing transaction flows.
Automation & Repeatable Checks
Creates and maintains repeatable validation checks, execution reports, and automation-supported test coverage using Postman, Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, JMeter, automation scripts, and AI-assisted test ideation.
QA Strategy & Test Planning
Test planning, scope definition, risk-based prioritization, requirements traceability, test coverage mapping, release validation approach, and readiness criteria.
Release Readiness & Project Coordination
Milestone tracking, action item follow-up, dependency management, stakeholder updates, UAT coordination, go-live planning, and post-release follow-through.
QA Leadership & Team Support
QA mentoring, status communication, risk visibility, cross-team coordination, client support enablement, and release control.
Modern QA Coverage
How I apply QA across delivery work
Requirements & Release Readiness
Defines QA scope, maps Product requirements to test scenarios, defects, and validation results through requirements traceability matrices, and aligns coverage to release milestones.
Functional & Integration Coverage
Breaks down complex workflows into validation areas covering expected behavior, edge cases, data movement, integration impact, and release-critical scenarios.
Readiness, Risk & Go-Live Coordination
Tracks blockers, dependencies, QA progress, stakeholder updates, UAT readiness, go-live checks, and post-release follow-through.
Automation & Technical Validation
Uses automation, API checks, SQL validation, AI-assisted test ideation, and structured test scripts to improve consistency across release checks.
Education
Foundation
Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering
University of the East – Manila
November 2014 – April 2019
Engineering background with a structured approach to analysis, validation, and delivery discipline.
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