TL;DR

I have a QA/SDET background alongside my mobile engineering work, and I release apps the way a tester would: assume the happy path works and spend the effort on everything around it.

My public release checklist has 34 items in six sections: build, testing, backend, App Store, Google Play, and launch day. Store rules on it were checked against the official pages on 28 September 2026.

The habits that matter most: test the exact artifact you ship, refuse every permission, break the network on purpose, upgrade from the version people already have, and keep the API compatible with old installs.

A checklist is not a test suite. It tells you what to test and what evidence to keep.

Where this comes from

From August 2024 to August 2025 I worked as a Software Development Engineer in Test for TAKADOM AL-IRAQ (TTech), on a freelance basis.…