Antony Fuentes

I automated many tests at multiple system layers, such as UI, API, data, and infrastructure, and learned a lot about security and threat detection. I had to test the data ingestion process of various third-party tools and learn how to normalize the data and detect actual security issues from it.

Apart from my regular testing activities, I also led the whole QA automation group and provided technical guidance and implemented different testing strategies based on the ever-changing priorities.

I've had the opportunity to participate as a professor in QA bootcamps on two occasions. The first time I taught about the POISED testing strategy for APIs using Postman.

Then on the second bootcamp, I taught about automated UI testing with Cypress. Sharing my knowledge with the testing community is something that makes me feel very motivated. I've also done online talks at QA events to go through interesting topics around testing.

In fact, using the following link, you can hear one of my talks in Spanish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUKNBDJCi3U.

This project was exciting because I got to opportunity to test things at the data ingestion layer. I automated multiple checks such as data integrity, data types, null trends, and even reconciliation of different databases. Another thing that I tested was the upgrade process to the latest database engine to make sure that the newer version would not cause any problems with the existing data.

On this project, I learned a lot about testing an IT monitoring system, as I was able to play with different network devices as well as deep dive into Linux systems. I exercised my testing skills from multiple perspectives, for example, manual testing, API automated testing, and UI automated testing. I also performed white box testing, playing with the application internals directly from its servers.