At Bdeo, I work both as a Head of QA and also as  technical development team lead, mostly focused in management and automation tasks in the side of QA and solutions architecture, development and technical infrastructure / architecture improvements on the development lead side. 

Head of QA / Property Tech Team Lead

As the reference QA in the company I was responsible of making sure all the quality standards were met, as well as organizing all the testing and SDLC monitoring processes. 

I was also responsible of the test automation suites of the company, mostly focused on improving infrastructure, architecture and solutions. 



Senior / Lead QA

I joined Aplazame when the company had less than 10 people, now we are more than 100.

I started from scratch an entire QA Department and become the Head of QA and QA Lead of the company, now we deliver our products with the best quality standards.

Between my main duties there are:
- Managing the Quality Assurance department.
- Test Automation and Testing Architecture on a high technical level.
- DevOps tasks as well as DevOps tooling such developing Slack bots or
tools for managing releases.
- Release management.
- Technical reference on testing at all the levels ( from unit to E2E, including performance, security, accessibility and code reviews ) for the entire company.

QA Lead

As a QA Architect and Automation Coach in William Hill, I was mainly creating, managing and monitoring test automation architectures, from its start to its implementation and maintenance. I also was the technical reference and coach for all the other QAs, with topics mainly related about automated testing and advanced technical QA questions.

QA Architect and Automation Coach

As a QA Architect in atSistemas, I designed and implement automated testing environments and solutions for different projects making sure that the quality of the product will be improved making a strong focus on
meeting business requirements.

As an Automation Test Lead, I managed a team of Automation QA Engineers, helping them to build strong and high-quality automated tests for a complex web application. I try my best in order to motivate the team
to still learning new techniques and improve its coding and testing skills.

Also, being a QA Architect gave me the opportunity to use, implement and manage DevOps tools that are an industry standard like Docker, JenkinsCI or Grafana among others.

QA Architect and Automation Test Lead

In Ebury, I work in an Agile environment as a Senior QA Engineer and eventually as a Fullstack Developer. Here are some of my daily tasks:

- Developing functional tests ( both manual and automated ) and penetration (security) testing for one of the biggest web projects into Fintech industry.
- Use and maintenance of CI (Jenkins), configuring jobs and managing testing servers and Docker containers.
- Using Behave and Selenium for BDD Automated Testing.
- Application of BDD techniques to Agile teams.
- Using pytest for running and coding Unit and Integration tests.
- Doing tests reviews for the cases designed by the QA team. Also, as a Fullstack Developer this are some things that I usually do:
- Write and review high quality code in Python (Django) or Javascript.
- Design and development of Unit and Integration tests.
- Analysis / fix of bugs in the platform.

Some of the technologies which I am using are:
- Django
- Python 2.7 / 3 ( Django ) / Pytest / Behave
- Javascript
- PostgreSQL / MongoDB
- JMeter
- JIRA / Confluence / Bitbucket
- Jenkins CI / Git / Mercurial
- Amazon Web Services
- Ansible

Senior Technical and Automation QA Engineer and Fullstack Web Developer

In AtSistemas, I worked as a QA Architect building automated testing projects usually in Agile environments. One of my main responsibilities was to make sure that automated testing and BDD projects were working as expected, increasing the quality of the products developed by the company. Apart from that, I was responsible too for some pentesting and security testing processes.

I've also built a conversational bot which helped handling DevOps tasks and tests executions. Some tools / languages used were:

- C# (using SpecFlow)
- Java 8 (using Cucumber and developing some solutions)
- Javascript / NodeJS (for the Bot implementation, and for using Mocha, Chai and Sinon)
- Jenkins
- JMeter
- JIRA / Confluence / Bamboo / Bitbucket
- Github
- Ansible
- Amazon Web Services / Microsoft Azure

QA Architect

In Ebury, I worked as a QA Engineer and Fullstack Developer in an Agile environment using SCRUM / Kanban methodology and the whole Atlassian suite of products ( JIRA - Bitbucket - Confluence). During this period I was mainly doing manual and automated testing using tools such as Behave, Pytest and Selenium Webdriver in conjunction with Jenkins. 

Apart from that, I was doing performance testing using JMeter and ethical hacking / security testing too. Also, as a Fullstack Developer I was fixing some bugs either in Javascript or Python and reviewing high quality code.

QA Automation Engineer and Fullstack Developer

Developing apps backend-based on PHP / NodeJS (but also Java and some Python (Django)) since 2012 as a freelance. Nubelo platform offered me to enter in the group of Experts in Web Development and Mobile Apps.

FullStack Web Developer

Worked as QA Engineer, doing all kind of testing but also developing some useful management tools and apps based on AngularJS and NodeJS. 

QA Engineer & Frontend Developer

Worked as Lead QA Engineer for a big insurance project, working hand by hand with the Project Manager and Team Leaders. During this period I was responsible of the whole testing of the project, working in a Agile - SCRUM environment, doing both testing (Manual and Automated). 

Some tools and technologies used and which I love are:

- Protractor
- Behat
- Selenium
- AngularJS
- JMeter
- Symfony
- Wercker
- Github

Lead QA Engineer

FullStack Developer ( Javascript + PHP ), responsible of maintenance of a CRM/CMS designed by Aplicode, adding new functionalities and fixing the ones which were broken.

FullStack Developer (Freelance)

Worked as FullStack Developer ( JS + PHP ) developing, maintaining and fixing some HTML5 based e-learning apps.

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Jose L.

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