Omar Tayel
QA Engineer with over a decade across software and video games. I build QA from scratch and find the edge case before your users do.
Quality is a habit, not a phase gate.
I'm Omar, a QA Engineer based in Hamburg with over a decade in quality assurance. I started in games QA in 2014, coordinating tester teams for AAA multiplayer titles, and grew from there into software QA across mobile apps, VR and fintech.
Today I own quality at 21bitcoin, where I built the entire QA function from scratch: test strategy, processes and best practices, UI automation with Maestro, plus backend, API and performance testing, all wired into the CI/CD pipeline.
I read specs the way testers do, hunting for the edge case nobody wrote down, and I care about shipping software that survives contact with real users. In four languages, if it has to.
Where I've shipped quality
- Built and drove the entire QA function from scratch: processes, test plans and best practices
- Automated UI testing with Maestro plus API and performance testing, integrated into CI/CD
- Ran load, scalability and stress tests to validate performance under real conditions
- Led QA for the VR title Oktoberfest: The Official Game
- Built test plans from spec and drove early bug-prevention techniques
- Managed the QA team; E2E analytics testing in an Agile SCRUM setup with JIRA & Confluence
- Regression & feature testing for the Tellonym and Quokka apps
- Wrote test cases from specs, executed test scripts, ran E2E analytics testing
- Maintained the Arabic localization; SCRUM with Asana & ClickUp
- Moderate testers on upcoming AAA multiplayer PC titles
- Stress, gameplay, smoke, UX/UI, balance, regression and map testing
- Manage and allocate tasks across the QA team
✓ Also freelance games QA since 2014: QA Moderator at VMC and QA Tester at UserTesting (4.5/5 rating).
What I bring to a team
Quality Assurance
- Test strategy & planning
- Regression & feature testing
- E2E analytics testing
- Exploratory & UX/UI testing
- Reproducible bug reports
Automation & Performance
- Maestro (mobile UI)
- Backend & integration testing
- API testing
- Load, scalability & stress testing
- CI/CD integration
Tooling & Process
- Git version control
- JIRA & Confluence
- Asana / ClickUp / Notion
- MySQL
- Agile / SCRUM
Languages
Let's work together
Whether it's a QA challenge, a collaboration, or just talking shop, I'm easy to reach. Based in Hamburg, working remotely across the EU.