Jacques Farah — QA Engineer

describe('Jacques Farah')

Six chapters. One test suite.

Every chapter of my career is a test. Scroll through and watch each one run, then pass.

test('learns how computers work')2014 – 2019 · Kaslik, Lebanon

Computer EngineeringHoly Spirit University of Kaslik (USEK)

A Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Engineering. Five years that set up everything that came next: the robots, the machine learning and, eventually, the testing.

education.json

degree: BE, Computer Engineering
school: Holy Spirit University of Kaslik
years: 2014 – 2019
status: ✓ graduated

test('builds robots that win')2015 – 2018 · Lebanon → USA

Robots, code and trophies

Alongside the degree I competed in robotics and programming contests, won nationally, and twice qualified for the VEX Robotics World Championship in the USA, competing there once.

expect(trophies).toHaveLength(5)01 / 05

2016 – 2017 · VEX Robotics 1^st

National champion, Lebanon

Tournament Award: 1st place
Excellence Award: 1st place
Competed at the 2017 World Championship, USA

2017 – 2018 · VEX Robotics 1^st×2

Best programming and best driving in Lebanon

Programming Skills: 1st in autonomous
Robot Skills: 1st in driving
Judges Award: qualified to represent Lebanon at the 2018 World Championship, USA

2017 · Innovate for Lebanon 1^st

Solid waste track winner

Smart Sorting Bin, an RCC project that sorts waste automatically

2017 · Entrepreneurship competition 4^th

Smart Sorting Bin, pitched as a business

The same RCC project, taken from prototype to business plan

2015 – 2018 · IEEE Xtreme ×4

24-hour coding marathons

Competed in editions 9.0, 10.0, 11.0 and 12.0

test('teaches machines to spot anomalies')Feb – Jul 2019 · Munich, Germany

Machine learning at BMW GroupMachine Learning Intern

Built anomaly-detection systems with unsupervised neural networks.
Implemented Variational Autoencoders in PyTorch.
Trained object-detection models for visual recognition.

reconstruction_error.py

error over time⚑ anomaly flagged

test('moves into quality')Mar – Aug 2021 · Beirut, Lebanon

QA Engineer at eProseedWhere testing became the job

Wrote and maintained detailed test cases in Zephyr (Jira).
Ran manual testing on dynamic websites.
Logged issues in Jira and followed them through to the fix.

jira · example bug

BUG-142Major

Form submits twice on a slow connection

Throttle the network to Slow 3G
Fill in the contact form
Double-click “Send”

OpenIn progressFixed ✓

test('ships quality at scale')Mar 2022 – now · Beirut, Lebanon

Quality Assurance Analyst at VML10+ web projects and counting

Use AI throughout testing to plan, write and review tests faster.
Built a testing MCP server that lets AI assistants run our Playwright tests.
Functional, regression and exploratory testing, automated with Playwright and Cypress.
Test cases in Zephyr and bugs in Jira, across 10+ web projects with developers and project managers.

terminal · example run

Running 5 tests using 3 workers ✓ auth › signs in with valid details (1.4s) ✓ search › returns results (0.9s) ✓ cart › updates the total (1.1s) ✓ forms › blocks empty submit (0.7s) ✓ layout › menu works on mobile (1.6s) 5 passed (5.9s)

test('keeps learning')2023 → always

Always learningMachine learning · Robotics · Problem solving

QA by trade, engineer by habit. I still follow machine learning and robotics closely, and I bring that analytical side to every test plan.

languages.yml

Arabicnative

Englishfull professional

Frenchlimited working

Deep Learning Specialization
Coursera · Feb 2023

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5+years in QA

10+web projects at VML

2VEX World Championship qualifications

4IEEE Xtreme editions

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The toolkit

// AI & ML AI-assisted testing AI test generation Claude Code ChatGPT PyTorch // testing Playwright Cypress Manual testing Automated testing Test case design & execution Regression & exploratory // tracking Jira Zephyr // code Python Java SQL

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