About me
नमस्ते 🙏🏻 I am Manzeel Uprety from Kathmandu, Nepal🇳🇵 I have been working as a QA Engineer for more than 12+ years now.
🚀 With 12+ years in Quality Engineering, I've gone from writing test cases to architecting full test infrastructure: migrating Cypress to Playwright at scale, building self-hosted E2E reporting pipelines, and designing agentic test generation systems. I don't just find bugs. I build the foundation that makes a team ship with confidence.
Since October 2026 I've been a QA Manager II at Maitri Services, where I get to do both: lead and grow a QA team, shape quality culture from the top, and still get my hands dirty with code and tooling. The best engineering teams I've been part of had a senior QA presence that was as close to the product as the PM. That's what I'm building there.
Work Experience
-
First QA job. Learned to write a bug report a developer would actually thank you for, and that a test case is a hypothesis, not a checklist. CloudFactory ↗
-
A short stint testing mobile products. Long enough to learn that device labs are a scheduling problem before they are a technical one. smartmobe ↗
-
Media and ad-tech tooling where the data was the product. First real exposure to data validation as a test discipline. Omnicom ↗
-
Two years building the first automation suites I owned end to end. Moved the team from manual regression to scripted checks running in CI. SoftNep ↗
-
First lead role. Set up Cypress across product teams and wrote the standards for what a merge-blocking test had to look like. bitsbeat ↗
-
Managed QA across the engineering org: hiring, 1:1s, and the quality roadmap. Learned that most QA problems are calendar problems in disguise. bitsbeat ↗
-
Four years owning quality for a cloud security platform. Migrated Cypress to Playwright at scale, built the self-hosted E2E reporting pipeline, and kept a fast-moving team honest about what “tested” meant. Plerion ↗
-
Leading quality and product for an early-stage AI product. Designing agentic test generation and the eval harness that decides which generated tests earn a place in the suite. TixFix ↗
-
Leading QA as a manager again: owning the quality strategy, growing the team, and keeping hands on the test tooling. Maitri ↗
Feel free to reach me at my email or read my articles on