SDET and founder of Ekkora
Amir Youssef
Software Development Engineer in Test from The Hague. 4+ years of experience testing software in insurance, government and consultancy. Before that I ran a restaurant’s operations for eight years.
I build test safety nets that catch bugs before customers do. Since 2024 I do that together with AI: I design the approach, AI does much of the building.
Career.
Every step built on the one before. Deliberately without company names: the work is what counts.
Operations Manager
Family restaurantEight years running daily operations, including opening a new location. This is where I learned to run a business: planning, staff, customers, numbers.
Functional Tester · IT Support
IT servicesFunctional testing of web and mobile apps and supporting workplace migrations. This is where I learned how software behaves with real users.
Agile Test Engineer
ConsultancyTest automation with TestComplete for clients. Built my first prompt-engineering test bot here: the start of my AI-augmented way of testing.
Agile Test Engineer
Government · social securityEnd-to-end testing across chains from mainframe to web, in an environment where defects hit citizens directly. Automated with TOSCA and Robot Framework, APIs tested with Postman.
QA Engineer
Insurer · health, travel, expatsBuilt two regression suites in Playwright and TypeScript: one for the CRM platform, one for the public website in Dutch and English. Around 330 test cases in total, role-based, with reporting for the team. Plus CI on a self-hosted agent behind a WAF, load and stress tests with k6, and a visual regression comparator where AI judges the differences and gives a go/no-go.
Toolkit.
Automation
Playwright, TOSCA, Robot Framework, TestComplete, Selenium, Cypress
Code
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python
API & performance
Postman, k6, visual regression
AI
Claude API and Claude Code, daily in my work
Pipelines
Azure DevOps CI, self-hosted agents
Credentials
ISTQB Foundation and Agile Tester, BSc ICT (coursework)