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Shaista is the founder and CEO of Carnelian Technologies, a specialist QA and software testing firm with a dual presence in Dubai and India. With nearly a decade of experience delivering quality assurance across HealthTech, FinTech, and SaaS verticals, she has built Carnelian into a trusted partner for product teams that cannot afford defects at scale — evidenced by a zero-defect track record across 500+ healthcare release cycles. Her work sits at the intersection of precision engineering and emerging technology. Carnelian's service offering spans manual and automated testing, Playwright-based browser automation, and agentic AI-powered QA workflows leveraging frameworks including LangChain, CrewAI, and LangGraph, positioning the company at the forefront of the next generation of intelligent software testing. Shaista is a hands-on founder who remains deeply involved in technical delivery while driving Carnelian's strategic growth toward direct B2B enterprise partnerships. She is based i
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