BeerGram – Brewery Discovery, Gifting & Business Platform

BeerGram is a brewery-focused digital platform built for both beer lovers and brewery businesses. The platform connects users with local breweries, beers, events, social activity, gifting, and brewery discovery, while also giving breweries tools to manage their business presence, events, products, digital menu boards, customer engagement, and AI-powered operations.

The product includes a consumer-facing mobile app for iOS and Android, along with business-side features for breweries, event organizers, and internal platform management. Because the platform combines social features, payments, location-based discovery, event ticketing, AI assistance, menu boards, gifting, and business operations, it requires continuous QA coverage across many different user roles and workflows.

The client needed a dedicated QA process to protect product quality while the platform continued to grow with new features and frequent updates. Since BeerGram includes multiple complex modules, the main requirement was to test every release carefully before it reached users, breweries, and business accounts.

The QA focus included validating user-side mobile flows, brewery-side dashboard functionality, business event management, gift sending and redemption, AI chatbot behavior, Google Maps and location-based discovery, social feeds, notifications, product listings, digital menu boards, ticket purchasing, QR ticket verification, and regression coverage after every update.

I worked as the main and only QA Engineer on BeerGram, responsible for testing the product across mobile apps, business dashboard features, and ongoing release updates. My role covered complete functional testing, regression testing, exploratory testing, API validation, AI chatbot testing, bug reporting, release verification, and close collaboration with developers, designers, and product stakeholders.

Because I was the sole QA on the project, I handled the testing responsibility end-to-end: understanding requirements, preparing test scenarios, validating new builds, identifying defects, reproducing issues, verifying fixes, checking edge cases, and making sure new releases did not break existing functionality.

I performed end-to-end QA across BeerGram’s iOS and Android applications, validating core user flows such as account creation, login, brewery discovery, beer browsing, event discovery, check-ins, social activity, gifting, gift redemption, user profiles, preferences, feeds, stories, notifications, private chats, and location-based brewery search.

I tested business-side functionality including business login, brewery dashboard access, product creation and management, event creation, event organizer flow, paid and free events, ticket purchasing, QR ticket scanning, staff/location management, business feed sections, privacy settings, forums, and dashboard settings.

I also tested BeerGram’s AI-related features, including user-side chatbot behavior, business-side AI assistance, and Half Pint AI workflows. This included validating conversation flow, response relevance, fallback behavior, AI-generated suggestions, content-related flows, and regression behavior after AI updates.

For payment and event workflows, I validated paid event ticket purchasing, multi-ticket purchase scenarios, gift-related payments, redemption flows, QR scan verification, payment-related UI states, success/failure handling, and edge cases around incomplete or interrupted flows.

I also tested map and location-based functionality, including brewery discovery, distance-based search, nearby brewery sections, Google Maps behavior, location permissions, routing issues, and search accuracy. These areas were important because BeerGram depends heavily on helping users find breweries and events near them.

During each release cycle, I performed smoke testing, regression testing, build verification, bug verification, and release validation. I reported issues with clear steps to reproduce, expected results, actual results, screenshots, screen recordings, device details, and environment information so the development team could resolve defects faster.

Performed full QA ownership as the main and sole QA Engineer

Tested BeerGram across iOS, Android, and business dashboard flows

Validated brewery discovery, beer browsing, events, gifting, profiles, feeds, stories, and notifications

Tested business dashboard modules including products, events, staff/location settings, forums, and privacy settings

Validated paid and free event workflows, ticket purchasing, multi-ticket purchase scenarios, and QR ticket verification

Tested gift sending, gift redemption, gift activity, payment states, and redemption confirmation flows

Performed AI chatbot and Half Pint AI testing for user-side and business-side experiences

Tested Google Maps, location permissions, nearby brewery search, distance search, and map-related issues

Verified social features including posts, comments, mentions, tagging, privacy groups, private chats, reactions, and feeds

Conducted API validation where needed for mobile and dashboard flows

Performed smoke testing, regression testing, exploratory testing, and release validation after every build

Reported detailed defects with screenshots, recordings, device details, and reproduction steps

Re-tested fixed bugs and verified stability across new releases

Collaborated with developers, designers, and stakeholders to improve product quality

iOS app testing

Android app testing

Business dashboard testing

AI chatbot testing

Half Pint AI workflow testing

Functional testing

Regression testing

Smoke testing

Exploratory testing

API testing

Payment flow testing

Event and ticketing testing

QR code verification testing

Gift and redemption testing

Google Maps and location testing

Social feed testing

Notification testing

User profile and preferences testing

Business account and organizer testing

Cross-device and cross-platform validation

Bug reporting and fix verification

Release QA and build validation

Manual Testing, Mobile App Testing, iOS Testing, Android Testing, Web Dashboard Testing, API Testing, AI Chatbot Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Exploratory Testing, Payment Testing, Event Ticketing Testing, QR Code Testing, Google Maps Testing, Location-Based Testing, Notification Testing, Bug Reporting, Test Case Design, Release Validation

My QA work helped the client maintain product quality while BeerGram continued to grow into a deep brewery ecosystem with mobile, business, AI, event, gifting, social, and payment-based features. By owning QA across ongoing releases, I helped identify functional bugs, UI/UX issues, map problems, payment flow issues, notification defects, AI behavior issues, and regression risks before they affected users or brewery businesses.

This testing process helped improve app stability, reduce release risk, support faster feature delivery, and create a smoother experience for beer lovers, breweries, business owners, and event organizers using the platform.