Fernando Távora

Malaga

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Last update: 30.04.2023

Senior Software Enginere in Test - Test Automation

Graduation: Associate Degree

Hourly-/Daily rates: show

Languages: English (Full Professional) | Spanish (Native or Bilingual)

Keywords

Test Automation Testing (Software) Java (Programming Language) Automation Systems Analysis Information Technology Outsourcing Certified Scrum Master Selenium Webdriver

Attachments

fernandotavora_sdet_testautomation_resume.pdf

Skills

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 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.

Project history

01/2021 - Present

Lead Test Automation Engineer

EPAM Systems Spain (Internet and Information Technology, 1000-5000 employees)

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.

08/2020 - 12/2020

QA Manager

Ipsy

Manual and automated testing hybrid team. Six direct reports.
Define test strategy and test plans. Develop of Web Automation Framework.
Agile Methodology. Scrum.

12/2016 - 08/2020

Engineering Productivity Lead

Elementum SCM

Team of about twenty people, half of them assigned to testing tasks. Five direct reports
Design, Development and Maintenance of Web Automation Framework
(NodeJS/WebdriverIO/Cucumber) for ReactJS web applications.
API Testing (Postman/Java/RESTAssured) for RESTFul API services back end.
Test Strategy Definition. Agile Testing.
Continuous Integration - Continuous Delivery.
Jenkins Tests Job definition using Pipeline as Code (Groovy)