[3] Upon graduating from ArtsEd in 2016, Zaidi made her professional stage debut starring as Maria in the Kilworth House production of West Side Story.
In 2017, she workshopped Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express at The Other Palace in London[5] and made her television debut with a guest appearance in an episode of the BBC medical soap Doctors.
[6] She took part in the original cast of the folk opera The Selfish Giant, which premiered at the Royal & Derngate in Northampton[7] and then had a run at London's Vaudeville Theatre for the venue's Oscar Wilde season, marking Zaidi's West End debut.
[8] In 2019, she starred as Jess Bhamra in the Canadian production and North American premiere of Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto.
[9] Zaidi joined the main cast of the Channel 4 school-set comedy drama Ackley Bridge for its fifth and final series as the teacher Asma Farooqi, which aired in 2022.