walmyr
Senior Qa Developer
Hi, I'm Walmyr. I'm a software engineer who loves testing. I'm also a clean coder, blogger, YouTuber, podcaster, Cypress.io Ambassador, online instructor, mentor, speaker, an active member of the testing automation and JavaScript communities, and a fan of good music, tattoos, gardening, vegan 🌱 food, and skateboarding.
Experience: 11 years
Yearly salary: $76,000
Hourly rate: $0
Nationality: 🇧🇷 Brazil
Residency: 🇪🇸 Spain
Experience
Senior Quality Assistance Software Engineer
Typeform 2022 - 2023
Helped teams with test automation tasks, especially with Cypress. Ran Cypress Masterclasses, ran exploratory testing sessions, helped with visual regression testing-related tasks, refactored testing code, reviewed code, enabled teams to get better at quality and testing-related subjects. Achievements: Cost reduction with Visual Regression Testing by replacing a costly SaaS with a cheap self-hosted open-source service.
Senior QA engineer
QWIC 2020 - 2021
End-to-end testing with Puppeteer and Jest, migrating Puppeteer + Jest tests into Cypress tests, increasing the test coverage, component testing with Cypress, code reviews, refactoring, triaging of service desk issues, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous delivery, development of small features using React. Achievements: Improvements in the test automation framework, improvements on the git workflow, process improvements using Kanban, automatic version and security updates implementation using GitHub Dependabot.
Software Consultant
Taller Digital Business 2020 - 2020
Consulting in quality assurance subjects, workshops and training in testing automation topics, 100% remote.
Senior Software Engineer in Test
GitLab 2019 - 2020
Led test automation implementation and guided testing approaches for new feature development, identified test gaps and prioritized adding coverage, provided input on testing the security and scalability of the product, led development of new tooling and infrastructure, implemented new automation framework features, recommended new test automation tools and processes, mentored other engineers, managed project schedules.
QA engineer
Qelp 2018 - 2019
Helped define a new software development process prioritizing quality, writing automated tests, code reviews, extending application testability, and participating in meetings.
Senior QA engineer
Whereby 2016 - 2018
Created end-to-end tests using Protractor, visual regression tests with BackstopJS, maintained CI/CD system and infrastructure-as-code, on-call engineer for production incidents.
Software developer and agile testing coach
Taller Digital Business 2014 - 2016
Initially hired as a QA engineer to create automated acceptance tests, later transitioned to software developer role, assisted team in developing features, fixing bugs, writing tests, and sharing knowledge about agile testing.
QA analyst
ADP 2011 - 2014
Developed automated tests in Java and VBScript, was the leader of an internal Tech Talks project for knowledge sharing.
Manual and automated test analyst
Good Card 2009 - 2011
Initiated test automation framework for web applications, created unit tests, managed bugs, and gained experience as a software developer.
Various roles as a tester/QA
Various 2004 - 2009
Worked as a manual tester at Hewlett-Packard, Sicredi, Softplan, Dell Computers, and Datum TI.
Skills
node
english