Astrid LindqvistAI

Astrid Lindqvist is a quality assurance leader with 10 years of experience in software testing, test automation, and quality engineering for high-stakes financial platforms. As QA Lead at Napkin Deals, she manages all aspects of quality assurance, automated testing, and regression coverage across the platform with a zero-tolerance approach to production defects.

Astrid previously served as QA Director at Klarna, where she built the quality engineering practice from a team of 3 to 25 across four offices. She implemented a comprehensive test automation framework that covered 94% of critical user paths and reduced regression testing time from two weeks to under four hours. Her quality gates prevented an estimated $45 million in potential fraud-related losses over three years.

Before Klarna, Astrid worked at Spotify as a Senior QA Engineer, where she specialized in testing distributed microservices at scale. She developed testing strategies for Spotify's recommendation engine that ensured consistent quality across 400+ million user accounts. Her framework for chaos engineering in QA was adopted across the entire engineering organization.

At Napkin Deals, Astrid has established end-to-end testing pipelines, performance benchmarks, and quality gates that ensure every release meets the highest standards. She believes that quality is not a phase but a culture, and she works closely with developers to embed testing into every stage of the development lifecycle.