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Cristian Sánchez
QA Engineer | Fixed Monthly Rate: $8,750 | $51/hr
Detail-oriented and versatile QA Engineer with hands-on experience in automation, manual, and performance testing across web, mobile platforms, and API. Proficient in frameworks like Selenium, Playwright, TestNG, Junit, Robot, Cypress, Karate, JMeter, Rest Assured, Appium, UFT, Reqnroll, and Cucumber, with strong command over C#, Python, Java, JavaScript, Maven, XPath, and CSS selectors. Adept at leveraging tools such as Browser Stack, Sauce Labs, or Kobbiton for cross-environment validation and Allure for modern test reporting. Skilled in NUnit, JUnit, and soft assertions to enhance reliability, with a growing focus on regression and performance testing for mobile applications. Combines technical precision with user empathy to ensure seamless, bug-free experiences. Passionate about efficiency, continuous learning, and collaborative quality assurance practices.
Education
Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Ags, Mexico – 2004
Experience
Sonatafy Technology
- Led cross-functional QA teams, assigning tasks, reviewing test cases, and mentoring junior testers
- Facilitated knowledge sharing sessions on best manual testing practices and defect triaging
- Defined test strategies and plans aligned with product requirements and release timelines
- Coordinated with Client and Dev Leads to ensure complete coverage across functional and edge cases
- Conducted detailed exploratory, regression, and smoke testing across web and mobile platforms, cross-browser, and backend
- Applied user empathy to replicate real-world scenarios, uncovering high-impact usability issues
- Logged and tracked issues using Azure DevOps, ensuring clear, actionable documentation
- Prioritized bugs based on severity and business impact, coordinating with development for swift resolution
- Defined and monitored KPIs such as test coverage, defect density, and pass rate trends
- Presented test progress and risk assessments to stakeholders during release cycles
- Identified bottlenecks in manual workflows and recommended process enhancements
- Served as QA point-of-contact during sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Define Automation Strategy and Design
- Architected scalable automation frameworks using Selenium, Playwright, and Reqnroll for web and mobile applications.
- Designed modular, maintainable test suites integrated with tools like Maven, NUnit, and SauceLab
- Promoted best practices for selector strategies using XPath and CSS, enhancing test reliability and maintainability
- Conducted reviews of test architecture, pull requests, and defect triaging to ensure code quality and test stability
- Fostered cross-functional collaboration with Developers, PMs, and Manual QA Engineers to align automation coverage with business goals
- Integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure), enabling continuous validation and faster feedback loops
- Managed environment configurations and test grid setups using SauceLab for cross-browser and cross-device testing
- Enhanced test reporting using Allure, enabling visual traceability, severity tagging, and trend analysis.Development of Automated Scripts for Browser, Mobile Application, and Backend
Globant
- Analyze and understand the automation framework
- Analyze and understand the backend APIs to be automated
- Coordinate meetings with the PoC to define strategy
- Develop or maintain automated scripts
- Integrate all changes to the master branch
- Trigger pipelines for the master branch
- Get sign-off for each application
- The Jira board keeps updated
- SQL queries
- Azure and Azure DevOps
Softtek
- Handling several projects for QA areas
- Meeting with the client to understand the needs of the service
- Creation and implementation of automation plan and strategy
- Design and implementation of automation framework for mobile, web, and APIs
- Define a farm of devices to be used for the design and execution of automated scripts
- Pipeline creation (CI/CD) with Jenkins, Microsoft Azure, and AWS
- Define types of tests to be used for automated execution
- Strategy for maintenance of automated scripts
- Metrics
- Defect and Execution Status
- SQL queries
Softtek
- Responsible for the QA team
- Automation Plan and strategy for QA
- 30 resources under my charge
- Responsible for coordinating the QA team of manual, automation, security, and performance testing
- Design and implementation of automation framework for mobile, web, and APIs
- Pipeline creation with Jenkins
- Execution of different types of tests for manual, automation, and performance areas, such as Integration, Functional, E2E, Smoke, Sanity, and Acceptance tests
- Owner to release deployments to the production environment
- Metrics
- Execution and defect status
- Define a strategy for security testing
- Azure
- SQL
Softtek
- Responsible for implementing a strategy for manual and automated testing
- Automation framework using UFT
- Migration of SharePoint 2010 to Online
Softtek
- Coordinate teams of QA and SAP to migrate the databases of SAP
- Test planning for each migration
- Risk, Issue, and Communication Plan
IBM
- Automation planning
- Automation scope
- Design and execution of automated scripts using UFT
IBM
- Traceability matrix
- Design and execution of test cases
- Defect tracking
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