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Fernando T. - Remote QA engineer

Fernando T.

Lead Software Engineer in Test
Based in: 🇪🇸 Spain
Timezone: Madrid (UTC+2)

Summary

Fernando Távora is a well-experienced software test automation developer. Over the last ten years, he has worked for companies of all sizes and industries such as Thomson Reuters, Argentina IT outsourcing companies, and Silicon Valley startups. He got an associate degree as a Systems Analyst at the Universidad Siglo XXI (Argentina, 2019). He is an ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (2010) and a Certified Scrum Master (2015).

Most of his test automation experience is based on Java Selenium Webdriver, RESTAssured, and WebdriverIO, developing tool sets to run automated tests for different test strategies such as nightly runs, on-demand runs, and automated CICD pipelines. He also joined testing communities and had the chance to participate as a speaker in meetups.

Work Experience

Lead Software Engineer in Test
EPAM Systems | Jan 2021 - Present
Java
Selenium
Postman

Working as a contractor in a US customer for the real estate industry. Maintain legacy Postman collections to test a variety of web services. Maintain legacy Java Selenium Webdriver framework to test web applications. Agile Methodology. Scrum. Jenkins. Jira.

Lead QA Engineer
Thomson Reuters | Jul 2011 - Present
Java
Selenium

eCommerce Sites Development. Four direct reports. QA team of 10 people. Selenium WebDriver/Java/TestNG Automation Framework development and maintenance. Test Cases and Test Scripts creation, analysis and run. Issues Reporting. Tools: HP Quality Center - Mingle Projects - Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio - Microsoft SharePoint.

Education

Universidad Siglo XXI
Associate Degree・IT Systems Analyst
Mar 2016 - Nov 2019

Personal Projects

Test Automation ExamplesIconOpenNewWindows
2020
Java
Node.js
Integration Testing
TestNG
Api testing
The goal is to provide public repositories with test automation examples, such as: - Selenium Webdriver: Gradle, Java, TestNG - API Test automation with Java: both RestAssured and Java built-in HTTPClient - Playwright: either in Java and Javascript (or Typescript, why not?) - Cypress - WebdriverIO

Certifications & Awards

Software Testing Foundations: Continuous Testing and DevOps
LinkedIn Learning | Jan 2021
Learning Cloud Computing: Core Concepts
LinkedIn Learning | Jan 2021