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. I help teams track risks, align stakeholders, validate complex workflows, and support smooth go-live execution by making sure critical systems are checked, risks are visible, and releases are prepared 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
Understanding systems quickly, adapting to working styles, and helping teams ship with 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.
- 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
- Executed functional, integration, transaction, and regression testing across critical 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, and troubleshooting using MySQL, Amazon Redshift, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
Automation & Repeatable Checks
Creates repeatable validation checks and execution reports using Postman, Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, JMeter, automation scripts, and AI-assisted test ideation.
QA Strategy & Test Planning
Test planning, scope definition, risk-based prioritization, test coverage planning, release validation approach, and readiness criteria.
Release Readiness & Delivery Support
Milestone tracking, dependency tracking, readiness checks, blocker follow-up, stakeholder checkpoints, and go-live support.
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
Planning & Release Readiness
Defines QA scope, aligns validation work to milestones, tracks readiness, and prioritizes release risks before go-live.
Functional & Integration Coverage
Breaks down complex workflows into practical validation areas, covering expected behavior, edge cases, data movement, and integration impact.
Automation & Technical Validation
Uses automation, AI-assisted test ideation, and structured validation scripts to reduce repetitive effort and improve consistency across release checks.
Leadership & Reporting
Keeps stakeholders informed through readiness updates, blocker visibility, execution follow-through, and QA team support.
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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