Curriculum vitae

Quality, automation and delivery leadership

IT professional with more than 20 years of experience building quality cultures, scaling automation practices and guiding teams across multiple industries.

20+ years Automation strategy Team leadership Speaker & content creator

Focus areas

  • Quality engineering and delivery
  • Test automation architecture
  • Leadership and cross-functional alignment
  • Community and technical advocacy

Experience

Career timeline

A progression from hands-on quality delivery to strategic leadership.

Project Leader

From 2022.07 to Present · Mercado Libre · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Leading product and project initiatives with a strong focus on delivery clarity, execution and team alignment.

Sr QA Automation Architect

From 2022.01 to 2022.06 · Globant · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Directed automation practices, monitored team execution and contributed to scalable quality engineering approaches.

SQA Automation Practice Manager

From 2020.02 to 2021.12 · Baufest · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Advised clients on automation methodologies, processes and tooling while leading teams and shaping career development plans.

QA Automation Team Leader

From 2019.05 to 2020.01 · Avature · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Managed automation delivery and helped define test execution workflows with a practical, high-impact approach.

QA Automation Team Leader

From 2016.12 to 2019.04 · NTT Data · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Led automation teams, designed quality strategies and supported delivery with solid testing foundations.

QA Team Leader

From 2009.05 to 2016.11 · NTT Data · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Built and guided QA teams, delivered training and strengthened internal quality processes.

Data Quality Analyst

From 2006.05 to 2009.04 · IBM · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Worked on test planning, estimations and environment preparation with a strong data and quality focus.

Skills

Core capabilities

Grouped to make the profile easier to scan and understand at a glance.

Leadership

Project Manager Product Manager Technical presale Team mentoring

Automation

Playwright WebDriverIO Selenium Appium Cucumber Karate DSL Rest Assured

Tools & platforms

JavaScript TypeScript Node.js Java Postgres SQL MySQL DynamoDB MongoDB

Delivery & collaboration

Jira Confluence Scrum Kanban Git Docker Azure DevOps JMeter K6 Postman Newman NestJS

Languages

Spanish (Native) English (B2) Portuguese (B2)

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