Irene P

QA Automation Consultant

Banks

Apr 2024 - Present • 2 yrs 4 mos

- Expert testing consultant supporting critical project teams in defining and launching their automation strategies. - Spearheaded a gamification project designed to improve engagement and optimize key metrics across backlog management, testing, and CI/CD pipelines. - Assisted in tracking and auditing critical applications to ensure strict adherence to quality processes throughout their entire lifecycle, heavily leveraging AI tools (GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini) to accelerate analysis and reporting workflows. - Designed continuous improvement strategies to adapt to internal testing regulations and process playbooks, covering the entire lifecycle from feature design to functionality deployment. - Conducted 'Garages' (short-format technical talks and workshops) to train teams on the standardized quality assurance processes mandated by the bank. - Created POCs for frontend automation using the custom TypeScript framework developed for BBVA(based on WebdriverIO (TypeScript), Cucumber). - Collaborated with diverse teams to define unit testing tools across a wide technological stack (Vitest, PHPUnit, etc.). - Conducted backend testing using proprietary institutional frameworks and configured main monitoring dashboards. - Developed automated tests for mobile using TypeScript and Appium on SauceLabs, and configured CI/CD pipelines.