Walter Antonio Ramirez Cossio

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Airbiquity•  August 2022 - June 2023

OtaMatic - Automotive telematics technology and cloud services – (Aug-2022 – Jul-2023): • Member of a quality engineering team, manual and automation, in charge of testing web-app designed for develop and distribute vehicles software through the cloud. • I participated on customer issues analysis, reproduction and fix testing, bug reporting, bug verification, API testing. • Responsible of the end-to-end QA process of 3 Backend features and 1 Frontend feature as part of the release of a new version of the product. • Along with the manual testing process I was in charge of the creating scripts to automate manual testing process for API and Web UI in different browsers and executed them locally. • Contributor on the refactoring of existent Automation frameworks, reducing the execution time of some specific feature test plans, working with already implemented technologies like TestNG and Selenium Web Driver. • Worked updating test scripts and improving the execution time reducing some unnecessary steps and replacing the navigation implementing direct URL navigation and API preconditions deployments. Project Tools: Jira, Idea IntelliJ, Java, TestNG, SQL Server, MySQL, AWS, Docker, Linux WSL.

QA Automation Engineer

Trueextend Inc.•  October 2015 - August 2022

Project 3 – Cloudpaging/Cloudpager (Numecent) - Windows Applications Deployment Management Sites – (Jan 2020 – Aug-2022): • Lead of automation quality engineering team for 4 sub projects, in charge of testing Desktop and web-apps designed for the distribution of Windows application on client Environments. • I participated on customer issues analysis, reproduction and fix testing, bug reporting, bug verification, API testing. • Along with the manual testing process I was in charge of the creating scripts to automate manual testing process for Web UI in different browsers and executed them locally. • Worked on the refactoring of existent Automation frameworks, reducing the execution time of the regression test plans, implemented Page Object mode, reusing already used technologies like TestNG and Selenium Web Driver, further, documented the automation setup process and principal guidelines. • Worked updating test scripts and improving the execution time reducing some unnecessary steps and replacing the navigation implementing direct URL navigation. • Worked on the proposal of new approaches in order to improve the execution of all test plans, updating the actual organization of test plans and increasing the number of automation resources on Server side. • Worked on the Maintenance of a VBS Framework and presented some proposals in order to migrate it to Test Complete. • Worked from scratch on the implementation of a Backend Automation Framework for a new brand project that integrates the full application with Azure Active Directory. Project Tools: Jira, Zephyr, TestLink, Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Java, Visual Basic Script, SQL Server, MySQL. Project 2 – Hinda Incentives (HINDA) - Rewards Management Sites – (May – 2019 – Dec-2019): • Member of a quality engineering team, manual and automation, in charge of testing web-app designed for Administration of Sites dedicated to Rewards Management. • I participated on customer issues analysis, reproduction and fix testing, bug reporting, bug verification, API testing. • Along with the manual testing process I was in charge of creating scripts to automate manual testing process for Web UI in different browsers and executed them locally and on Azure DevOps Pipelines. • Worked on the prototyped and implementation of a Frontend/API testing framework developed in C# using Specflow and Selenium Web Driver. Project Tools: Azure DevOps, Test Rails, Visual Studio Community, C#, SQL Server. Project 1 – Spigit (Planview) - Idea Management – (Oct-2015 – Mar-2019): • Lead of an automation quality engineering team, in charge of testing web-app designed for ideas sharing. • I participated on customer issues analysis, reproduction and fix testing, bug reporting, bug verification, API testing. • Prototyped and implementation of the API Automation Framework development on Ruby with Selenium WebDriver and Cucumber. • Along with the manual testing process I was in charge of creating scripts to automate manual testing process for Web UI in different browsers and Mobile devices, using both real and virtual devices, and executed them locally or Sauce Labs resources. • Worked on the prototyped and implementation of a Frontend/Mobile/API testing framework developed in Java using Cucumber, and Selenium Web Driver. • Deployed a Jenkins server over a Docker Swarm pool for Automation Team and worked on the integration and maintenance of the Automation frameworks execution as part of the Continuous Integration process. • Worked on the maintenance of the Continuous integration deployment process, fixing deployment issues for different versions of a web app hosted on distributed Tomcat Servers. • Automation of Test Framework execution over customized Docker images using scripting and Jenkins pipelines. Project Tools: Jira, Ruby, Java, Cucumber, Selenium, Selenium Grid, APIRest, Postman, Fiddler, Docker, Docker Swarm, Jenkins, MySQL.

QA Automation Engineer

Jalasoft•  July 2012 - December 2014

Project 2 – SQL Diagnostic Manager for SQL Server (IDERA) - SQL Server Database Management Tools – (Aug-2013 – Dec-2014): • Member of a quality engineering team (manual and automation teams) in charge of testing a monitoring solution for Servers and Applications. • I participated on core infrastructure projects, hot-fixes and customer issues analysis, reproduction and fix testing, as well as performance testing for memory leak and responsiveness. • Along with the manual testing process, I was in charge of automated test case creation and test case execution for product release cycles. • Prototyped an Automation framework and integrate it with Test Complete, SAHI, SoapUI and Java for a change management solution built on top of Salesforce. We use it to reduce time needed to prepare and test upgrade scenarios. • Prototyped and implemented a SAHI Framework based on Java, ee use it to improve and make easier the development of Automated scripts for SAHI over Web Products based on the use of the ZK library. Project Tools: Jira, SilkTest, Test Complete, SAHI, SoapUI, Java, MySQL, SQL Server. Project 1 – Sentinel (NetIQ) - Monitoring of Network devices – (Jul-2011 – Jul-2012): • Participated in a training course in which I learned software testing techniques and level. • Actively testing (designing test cases and reporting defects) using different test techniques, and following well defined procedures. Project Tools: TestLink, MySQL

Universidad Mayor de San Simón

Computer Science & Engineering, BS•  January 2003 - December 2020

Bachelor of Science in Computing Systems UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMON, Cochabamba – Bolivia