01Apr 2025
Describes Aditya as a mature engineering leader who keeps teams motivated while handling technical, administrative, security, and working-environment needs.
Aditya Amin Refandi
Quality Engineering and Engineering Management Leader
Quality Engineering and Engineering Management leader with 12+ years of experience across fintech, e-commerce, healthcare, and global technology organizations.
Recommendations received
Leadership, seen by others.
Selected LinkedIn recommendations, with the working relationship made explicit so each perspective has context.
02Aug 2024
Highlights approachable communication, guidance beyond deliverables, and a leadership style centered on helping the whole team grow together.
Direct report at Flip
Muhammad Mamed
Full-Stack Developer at Sophiie AI; formerly Front-End Engineer at Flip
03May 2024
Credits Aditya with guiding his career trajectory, supporting him through challenges, and creating a strong sense of growth and belonging within the team.
Direct report during Aditya's Engineering Manager tenure at Flip
Muhammad Salma Abdul Aziz
Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in React and Next.js
04Jan 2024
Highlights Aditya's ownership, planning, resilience, people management, communication, and ability to earn trust for significant engineering responsibilities.
05Feb 2021
Describes Aditya as a detail-oriented QA partner who works across teams to find the right trade-offs and consistently improves quality for users.
Cross-team colleague in the Midtrans and GoTo payment ecosystem
Fauzan Erich Emmerling
Engineering leader across payments, marketplaces, and mobility
Selected impact
Change that can be measured.
A concise view of documented outcomes. Every number stays attached to the organization where it was achieved.
01Infokes
100%critical regression flow automation coverage
Delivered through the first automation testing MVP for the core healthcare platform, with a greater than 92% execution pass rate.
02Infokes
2 hours → 30 minutescritical regression execution time
Automation was integrated into CI/CD pipelines for critical business flows.
03Infokes
5.53% → 2%development defect rate
Following the introduction of shift-left testing, quality gates, and earlier engineering collaboration.
04Flip
8 → 24Quality Engineering organization growth
Scaled within one year through hiring, mentoring, performance management, promotion planning, and career development.
05Flip
2 days → 80 minutesmobile regression validation time
Achieved by transforming more than 1,000 test cases into 28 critical business flows.
06Flip
30% → 90%project delivery success rate
Improved within six months through planning, execution discipline, process improvements, and stakeholder alignment.
07Rakuten Group
>90%automation coverage across critical business flows
Maintained for business-critical item-management and product-catalog platforms.
Experience
Career experience.
Recent roles come first. Open a company, then a position, to inspect its scope and documented impact without turning the page into a wall of text.
InfokesAn Indonesian health-technology company building integrated digital products for healthcare providers and public-health services.QA Manager2026-01 — Present1 position
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QA ManagerJanuary 2026–Present
Jakarta, IndonesiaContract
Leads a Quality Engineering organization of 12 QA Engineers across multiple healthcare product teams while contributing hands-on to automation architecture and framework development.
Scope & impact
- Leads 12 QA Engineers across multiple healthcare technology product teams.
- Built the platform's first automation testing MVP, reaching 100% coverage of critical regression flows with a greater than 92% execution pass rate.
- Reduced critical regression execution from two hours to 30 minutes through CI/CD integration.
- Reduced the development defect rate from 5.53% to 2% through shift-left testing, quality gates, and earlier engineering collaboration.
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Rakuten GroupA global technology group spanning e-commerce, fintech, digital content, communications, and other internet services.Automation Lead2025-05 — 2025-121 position
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Automation LeadMay 2025–December 2025
Tokyo, Japan
Led automation and quality initiatives for business-critical item-management and product-catalog platforms in a globally distributed environment.
Scope & impact
- Maintained greater than 90% automation coverage across critical business flows.
- Coordinated distributed QA and engineering stakeholders across Japan, China, and the Philippines for quality strategy and release readiness.
- Navigated release management involving multiple engineering organizations, business units, and cross-system dependencies.
FlipAn Indonesian financial-technology company providing consumer and business payment and money-transfer services.Senior Engineering Manager2020-12 — 2025-053 positions
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Senior Engineering ManagerSeptember 2023–May 2025
Jakarta, Indonesia
Led engineering across Platform Engineering, Risk, KYC, Help Center, and Operational Systems while continuing company-wide Quality Engineering initiatives across 28+ Test Engineers.
Scope & impact
- Led company-wide quality initiatives across 28+ Test Engineers while managing engineering leadership and cross-functional teams.
- Reduced mobile regression validation from two days to 80 minutes by transforming more than 1,000 test cases into 28 critical business flows.
- Built automation-generation capabilities that accelerated API automation delivery by up to four times across multiple engineering teams.
- Improved engineering productivity by 300% through engineering-excellence initiatives.
- Established quality governance and release-readiness practices that contributed to 99.9% service availability.
- Maintained zero critical production incidents through proactive quality and operational practices.
Engineering ManagerDecember 2021–October 2023
Remote
Led cross-functional engineering teams supporting Help Center, customer service, KYC, fraud investigation, and operational platforms.
Scope & impact
- Increased project delivery success from 30% to 90% within six months through planning, process improvement, execution discipline, and stakeholder alignment.
- Reduced customer-support SLA resolution time by 40% through workflow optimization and operational-platform improvements.
- Led the migration of internal platforms from monolithic architecture to scalable microservices-based solutions adopted across multiple engineering teams.
- Delivered RBAC, audit logging, maker-checker controls, and workflow automation to improve security, compliance, and operational efficiency.
QA ManagerDecember 2020–December 2021
Jakarta, Indonesia
Led the Quality Engineering organization and established quality ownership, engineering standards, shift-left practices, and career-development frameworks.
Scope & impact
- Scaled the Quality Engineering organization from 8 to 24 engineers within one year.
- Built and scaled API, web, and mobile automation frameworks, reducing regression cycles from ten days to three days.
GoTo GroupIndonesia's digital ecosystem group; this role focused on quality engineering for Midtrans payment infrastructure.Software Development Engineer in Test2019-07 — 2020-121 position
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Software Development Engineer in TestJuly 2019–December 2020
Jakarta, Indonesia
Supported quality engineering for payment infrastructure including SDK integrations, QRIS, EDC, payment gateways, and high-volume transaction systems.
Scope & impact
- Built and maintained mobile and payment-device automation and CI/CD workflows to improve regression efficiency and release confidence.
JavaSeleniumAppiumCI/CD
BukalapakAn Indonesian technology company that grew from an e-commerce marketplace into a broader digital commerce platform.Lead Software Development Engineer in Test2015-04 — 2019-071 position
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Lead Software Development Engineer in TestApril 2015–July 2019
Jakarta, Indonesia
Joined as an early Quality Engineer, progressed into technical leadership, and helped build testing practices and automation foundations for mobile, payment, web, and API platforms.
Scope & impact
- Built automation frameworks and CI/CD testing practices while contributing to mobile release readiness, exploratory testing, technical hiring, and QA mentoring.
JavaSeleniumAppiumCI/CD
KANA SoftwareAn enterprise customer-service and customer-relationship-management software company, acquired by Verint in 2014.QA Automation and Presales Engineer2014-08 — 2015-031 position
QA Automation and Presales EngineerAugust 2014–March 2015
Jakarta, Indonesia
Performed software testing and supported analysis, design, development, testing, and prototype delivery for enterprise customer-service software sales engagements.
Featured independent project
Building the platform I wanted the QA community to have.
Owner-led product work that brings practical QA career development, mentoring, and AI-assisted testing programs into one platform.
01In development
BelajarQA
BelajarQA platform MVP
An ongoing QA career-progress platform MVP that combines career diagnostics, practical learning programs, and mentoring under belajar-qa.com.
Role
Building and shaping the platform as an owner-led product project.
belajar-qa.com
QA career-progress platformWhat is being built
- 01
Developing the initial MVP within the existing belajar-qa.com product and deployment.
- 02
Mentoring more than 40 participants through private and group AI for QA classes focused on practical test-design and automation workflows.
- 03
Building additional programs including CV Roasting with Andi, alongside a growing catalog of practical QA career accelerators.
Skills & expertise
Capabilities built over 12+ years.
Leadership, quality strategy, testing disciplines, and tools documented in the CV—grouped by how they support engineering delivery rather than arbitrary proficiency scores.
Leadership
- Engineering Leadership
- QA Management
- People Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Cross-functional Leadership
- Vendor Management
Quality Engineering
- QA Strategy
- Test Governance
- Test Planning
- Risk-Based Testing
- Release Readiness
- Defect Management
- Quality Metrics
- CI/CD Quality Gates
Automation and testing
- API Testing
- Web Testing
- Mobile Testing
- Regression Testing
- System Integration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- Exploratory Testing
- Performance Testing
Tools and technologies
- Playwright
- Selenium
- Appium
- REST Assured
- Postman
- WebdriverIO
- Java
- Go
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- CI/CD
- Cursor
- Codex
- MCP
References
Selected public work.
A verified starting set of public writing, conference sessions, and teaching references. Additional podcast and video links can be added when their exact URLs are confirmed.
Publication profileWriting on quality, engineering leadership, and AIMediumArticle archive and long-form writing.SpeakingLeading Beyond the Code: Applying QA Mindset to Manage Multi-Role Engineering TeamsISQA Conference · 2026-04-26Conference session on applying a QA mindset to engineering leadership.SpeakingBest Practice Patterns on Test Automation FrameworkBukaTalks · BukalapakRecorded YouTube session featuring Aditya Amin Refandi.TeachingKuncie Komplit Tech: Quality AssuranceKuncie × LinkAjaQA bootcamp mentoring reference.SpeakingQA Vault: Structuring Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and ChecklistsAfteroffice Academy · 2025-10-25WritingThe Importance of Metrics in Software Testing: Striking the Right BalanceLinkedIn · 2024-10-21WritingCommon Mistakes New Engineering or QA Leaders Make (And How to Avoid Them)LinkedIn
Teaching, mentoring & community
Scale knowledge, not dependency.
Knowledge sharing across practical AI adoption, software testing, automation foundations, and engineering development.
June 2020–April 2023
Co-teacher
ATLAS ID TECH
Co-taught introductory Java and API test automation programs.
- Basic Java
- Basic Automation API with Java
2020–2021
Guest Lecturer
Faculty of Computer Science, University of Indonesia
Delivered sessions on software testing and quality engineering topics.
- Software testing
- Quality engineering
2020–2025
Bootcamp Mentor
Mentored aspiring engineers on software testing and engineering practices across bootcamp programs.
- Software testing
- Engineering practices
Community contribution
Quality work for the public good.
Volunteer work contributed outside formal employment.
Volunteer QA PIC
KawalCOVID19
Contributed to KawalCOVID19 as a volunteer QA PIC.
Visit organizationEducation
Foundations and continuous development.
Formal education
Bachelor's degree
Computer Science
University of Indonesia · 2010–2014
Languages
- English
- Professional working proficiency
- Indonesian
- Native
Certification