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Resume

Senior SDET with product-code range and ML-quality direction.

Around 9 years across QA automation, API validation, data checks, CI/CD gates, cloud-backed test infrastructure, and support-aware product delivery.

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Resume signal

What the PDF should make easy to see

Automation depth

Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, pytest, Postman/Newman, Cucumber, SpecFlow, and CI-ready regression design.

Data and API judgment

REST validation, ingestion checks, access-control coverage, Pandas/MySQL verification, and structured release evidence.

ML-quality bridge

Eval cases, provider boundaries, deterministic checks, JSON contracts, and thresholded CI gates for model/API behavior.

Impact

Resume-backed outcomes

less manual test-authoring time

60%

LLM-assisted test generation for connected-device flows.

manual testing effort removed

80%

Python/Java automation for financial data ingestion and access control.

Postman API collections

200+

REST endpoints for payment data, business rules, and regression coverage.

CI feedback compression

3h to 25m

Parallel Jenkins execution for financial data platform testing.

BDD feature files

150+

Cucumber and SpecFlow coverage for .NET applications.

manual IT work automated

15+ h/wk

Azure provisioning, permissions, and onboarding scripts.

Stack

Tools grouped by signal

Automation

PlaywrightpytestSeleniumCypressRobot FrameworkCucumberSpecFlowJest

Languages

PythonJavaTypeScriptJavaScriptC#/.NETSQLBashPowerShell

CI-CD

JenkinsGitHub ActionsGitLab CIAzure DevOpsDockerLinuxAWSAzure

Data-ML

REST APIsPostmanNewmanSwaggerMySQLPandasJSONL evalsdata validation
PlaywrightpytestPythonTypeScriptSeleniumPostman/NewmanJenkinsAWS/Azure

Timeline

Experience receipts

Feb 2025 - Dec 2025

Connected-device platform engagement

QA Automation Engineer Consultant · Lisbon, Portugal | Remote

60% less manual test-authoring time
  • Built Playwright and Selenium suites for React/TypeScript device registration, authentication, and multi-locale flows.
  • Integrated LLM-assisted test generation to expand test cases and reduce manual authoring.
  • Embedded suites into Jenkins pipelines with quality gates and earlier sprint-level defect feedback.
PlaywrightSeleniumTypeScriptPythonJenkinsGitHub Actions

Apr 2024 - Jan 2025

Global beverage platform engagement

QA Automation Engineer Consultant · Lisbon, Portugal | Remote

Global-team quality reportingReusable UI/API modules
  • Shifted a predominantly manual suite toward Playwright and pytest automation.
  • Built reusable modules for UI regression, access control, and multi-market localization.
  • Validated REST integrations, authentication flows, and role-based access controls.
PlaywrightpytestREST APIsPostmanSwaggerJira

Feb 2023 - Mar 2024

Independent SDET consulting

Owner | QA & SDET Consultant · Montreal, QC | Remote

70% shorter test execution time70% automated test coverage in 6 months
  • Built Playwright and Cypress E2E frameworks from scratch on Linux-based AWS infrastructure.
  • Designed REST API suites in Python with Postman and Requests.
  • Validated microservice integrations, data flows, and access control policies across AWS and Azure services.
PlaywrightCypressPythonAWSAzureDockerLinux

Mar 2019 - Dec 2022

Financial data platform

QA Analyst | Support Engineer · Montreal, QC | Remote

80% less manual testing effort200+ Postman API collections3h to 25m CI feedback
  • Built Python and Java suites for ingestion, data integrity, and access-control validation.
  • Developed Postman API collections for payment-data endpoints and business rules.
  • Used MySQL and Pandas checks to catch data corruption and transformation errors before production.
PythonJavaPostmanNewmanJenkinsMySQLPandasAWS

Nov 2016 - Feb 2019

.NET BDD and IT automation

IT Specialist - Support & Quality Assurance · Boston, MA

150+ BDD feature files15+ hours/week automated20+ PowerShell scripts
  • Built Cucumber and SpecFlow BDD frameworks for .NET applications.
  • Collaborated with developers to write tests before implementation was complete.
  • Automated Azure provisioning, permissions management, and user onboarding with scripts.
CucumberSpecFlowC#.NETSeleniumPowerShellAzure