QA Consultant Barcelona, España

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QA Consultant

Barcelona, España

Native Spanish, Intermediate English

  • +5 years Test Management
  • +15 years Test Automation
  • +15 years Team Leadership

Skills (42)

OO

Cucumber

STRUCTURED SOFTWARE

QA

Test lead

TEST PLANS

QUALITY ASSURANCE

QA MANAGEMENT

QE

JSON

PROPOSALS

OFFSHORE

COACHING

SCRIPTING

TEAM BUILDING

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

ESTIMATION

SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT

CLIENTS

CODING

CONTENT MANAGEMENT

ARCHITECTURE

LEAD ENGINEER

FRONT-END

XML

Ruby

Java

METRICS

JavaScript

OPERATIONS

IT AUDIT

TCO

Hibernate

TOTAL COST OF OWNERSHIP

Pascal

DELPHI

Spring

JBoss

Hadoop

PHP

Python

JSP

Summary

The result of 18 years in the field of computer science and that of technology, and also the participation in various projects, have given me a vast knowledge as well the capacity to respond to challenges. I have worked with objects-oriented technologies and technologies orientated to process.

Professional Experience

Mate quality Services

2014-01 - Present

QA Manager / Lead
Description:
Mate Quality Services (MQS) is a fast growing company based in Uruguay that specializes in Quality Control, IT Audit, Project Management and Testing Services, ensuring the right solution is provided to its clients.
As a thought leader and innovator in the IT Industry, Mate Quality Services adds value throughout each phase of IT system development and management leading to enhancing application quality, reducing time to market and lowering total cost of ownership.
As your Mate, we know that quality in products and services is a must, and the years of experience behind our specialists are a sure guarantee that your final work will truly shine and show its full potential.
MQS is the company that Clients want to work with when dealing with IT Quality Assurance, simply because no one knows more or care more about it than us.
Tasks
● Automation test Architecture and development
● Work with QA teams on daily automation task: Scripting, pair programming, peer review, coaching as any other team member
● Provide advice and assistance to senior managers on management
● Customer Relationship
● Team Building
● Technical QA Automation Guidance
● Assess requirements for personnel regarding knowledge and skills needed to achieve performance goals
● Develop strategies and specific plans for QA
● QA management
● Hiring process
QA Team Lead
EDR, Connecticut

2019-01 - Present

● Define scope with dev teams and senior management
● Manage Backlog
● Automation Test QA lead working with Test Studio and C#
Advisor
Engine

2017-06 - 2019-03

QA Team Lead
● Lead QA for several vertical projects, including manual and automation test.
● Work with proposals of test strategies and test plans, defining quality gates for QA and DEV teams and report to Project Managers and Product Owners
● Definition of test automation frameworks
● Definition of Test task
● QA Automation trainings and talks
● Create proposal for automation framework change (Behat to Java)
● Technologies: Java, TestNG, Behat, PHP, Selenium, GraphQL
● Create framework for API testing on Jmeter
● Mobile automation testing:
◦ Katalon with Appium (Android/iOS)
QC Consultant
Willdom

2016-05 - 2018-03

● Manage QA for several projects, including manual and automation test.
● In charge of proposals of test strategies and test plans, defining quality gates for QA and DEV teams and report to Project Manager and Product Owner
● Definition of test automation frameworks
● Definition of Test task
● QA Automation trainings and talks
● Technologies: Java, Selenium, TestNG
● Web Automation frameworks: Protractor, Jasmine (javascript)
QA Lead
BeaconLive

2013-11 - 2017-06

● QA management across dev teams
● Lead QA team, define quality gates for development task and automation code
● Define Regression
● Test Automation:
◦ Web: Ruby, Cucumber, Watir
◦ Mobile: Appium, Java (Android/iOS)
QA Lead
CME

2013-07 - 2014-01

● QA Lead for Buenos Aires team
● Define and control Test task with QA Manager
● Technical Interviewer - Automation developers and Test Analysts
Sr. QA Engineer
AppLabs

2010-01 - 2012-12

Automation Test Lead and Manager Backup for Argentina

● Manager backup at Zurich
● Interact with development provider to set and control quality gates
● Define Test cycles according development provider cycles
● Act as a proxy between different teams for each component of the product landscape (Accounting, Infra, Insurance, Users, etc)
● Support UAT
● Validate Metrics
● Control the adherence to processes
● Automation Test Lead Engineer at Zurich
● Automation for Quotation systems developed using
Web and Terminals (IBM PCOMM) (Capital Markets Environment)
● Research for automation tools (QTP & Original Software)
● Implementing reusable Framework under QTP
● Participate on Regional Test Strategy Creation
● Test Requirement Estimation (3 point estimation methodology)
● Interview Candidates for open positions
● Quality revision on requirements & detailed requirements on Analysis phase
Sr. QE Lead Engineer
Orbitz

2010-04 - 2010-12

applying Agile Methodology based on scrum and some practices of.
● Lead QA automation and manual team for back office application before and after migration, giving support to all vertical test teams that needs back office operations
● Lead QA Team for three different products, each product with 2 different versions and each version with different kind of projects, giving support to 13 automation developers
● Work with Test manager directly to define Automation needs
● Architect and develop of an Automation Framework created in order to support a large amount of reusable scripts
● Define Automation and manual test task for any test sprint
● Farming analysis of customer needs in terms of technical debt
● Continuous Analysis of the performance, giving solution to resolve issues
● Service testing with Robot Framework:

Technical Leader and Test Architect for a huge web & back end components test automation project from Orbitz Worldwide.

● Author of several automation frameworks (UI, service and performance) and customized mocking strategies to enable ruling out external providers during testing, tremendously reducing costs and uncertainty during new releases for clients while adding capacity for isolated component testing.

◦ Tecnologies
◦ Java 6/7 (Agents development, byte-code manipulation, dynamic proxies, JPDA and AOP)
◦ Spring 3.x frameworks
◦ Hibernate/JPA
◦ XML/JSON/Protobuf marshaling
◦ Oracle databases
◦ Hadoop
◦ Python
◦ JBoss
◦ Dynamic mocking frameworks/TestNG/jUnit/Cobertura/Jacoco
◦ Selenium/WebDriver/Robot frameworks
◦ Development of Scripts in Watir (Ruby)
◦ Development of Scripts in Selenium (using Java over A Selenium Framework)
External Tester and Tool Researcher
Axway

2009-08 - 2010-04

applying Agile Methodology based on scrum and some practices of XP in a team that recently start using Agile.
● Consolidation and Hardening for the product before deliver (Beta, RC, and Release)
● Research about Visual Studio Team System 2010 beta 1 and how integrate it with existing stuff and how to create new stuff using the new features in the tool
● Research about different mock tools for .net, including EasyMock.Net, Rhino.Mocks and NMock

Application Framework for Globant
Globant Content Management Suite - Templates (Globant internal project)
Globant Content Management Suite is a web-content for the development of new Opencms modules so that the Opencms could be extended with new core functionalities. New Opencms modules can be imported so as to work all together without any conflicts.
Tasks:
• Responsible for the configuration phase, as well as training, development
services and extension for new tasks.
• Analyze incorporating a module of Google Checkout.


QA Measurement Application
Tasks:
● Develop part of the first functionality using Spring MVC and freemarker
Semi Senior Developer
GLOBANT

2006-01 - 2010-01

Projects:
Automation Test Lead Engineer for VZ
● Lead a 4 automation developers team working for Verizon
● Interact with managers and developers to understand weak points
● Interact with Manual testers to understand regression needs
Technical Interviewer - Automation developers and Test Analysts
Freelance Developer
Opencms

2006-11 - 2007-05

In short, openms is a professional, easy to use website content management system that helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently.
Tasks:
● QA's tasks for the final stage of the project
● Structure Contents creation (JSPs with structured "xsd" contents) using the OpenCms API.

Multi Platform Social Network Application for mobile phones
Tasks:
● Develop a Functional Test Suite for different markup languages (FSC Carrier Integration)
● Developing front-end pages in xdime (T-Mobile) and pml (Vodafone, Mobilkom) markup language (FSC CarrierIntegration)
● Bug fixing and page coding in PML, WML and X-DIME formats for T-Mobile, Vodafone, and Mobilkom companies. (FSC CarrierIntegration)
● Prepare and Deploy QA Versions (FSC CarrierIntegration)


Freelance Developer
Clipper Management System developer
Restaurant Systems

2005-01 - 2006-01

● Developed low cost management systems for small companies, like:
● Restaurant Systems
● Clothes shops systems
● Hardware shops systems
Cobol/Pascal/Delphi Management System developer

1997-01 - 2000-01

Developed a low cost management system for small companies, such as:
● Mechanical service for cars systems
● Gym users control system
● File based DB systems

Academic Background

UADE - Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
UADE - Universidad Argentina de la Empresa

2024-11 - 2024-11

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