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Daniel Andres Cavenago, Quality Assurance Developer in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Daniel Andres Cavenago

Quality Assurance Developer in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Member since April 23, 2019
Daniel has over eight years of experience in QA with knowledge of the entire quality assurance process from designing, creating, and executing to the planning and strategies of testing. He also has solid experience as a QA automation lead with the ability to create automation frameworks from scratch, integrating them with continuous integration tools ensuring top quality in all software development stages from design to deployment.
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Portfolio

Experience

Location

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Jira, Git, WebDriver, Jenkins, Python, MacOS

The most amazing...

...thing I've coded is a pytest framework integrated with puppet and BrowserStack that runs a full regression for all browsers/devices for ConsumerAffairs site.

Employment

  • QA Automation Lead

    2017 - PRESENT
    ConsumerAffairs (via an online freelance agency)
    • Assumed the QA automation lead role in a 5-member team using scrum methodology by creating and assigning Jira tickets and doing the follow up with daily meetings.
    • Created the pytest test automation framework for end-to-end and regression testing, including API tests with Tavern tool, integrated with BrowserStack and TestRail for a web environment.
    • Led the release process ensuring the product quality before each release.
    • Created a full list of test cases for regression testing with instructions on which test cases need to be automated and in which order.
    • Participated in the QA hiring process by creating job advertisements, reviewing the incoming resumes, filtering candidates, hosting and leading interviews, and deciding on new hires.
    Technologies: Quality Assurance (QA), API Testing, UI Testing, Scrum, Jira, Selenium, QA Automation, Django, GitHub, MacOS, BrowserStack, Selenium WebDriver, Pytest, Python

  • QA Engineer

    2022 - 2022
    Bentkey Services, LLC
    • Tested a hybrid app performing manual, regression, and automation testing for a news media company.
    • Created an automation framework using Playwright and TypeScript from scratch to perform automation testing for regression suites.
    • Reported the bugs found and performed a proper follow-up.
    Technologies: QA Testing, Quality Assurance (QA), Website QA, Selenium, Cypress.io, Playwright

  • QA Automation Senior

    2022 - 2022
    Latch
    • Created the Cypress test automation framework from scratch for end-to-end and regression testing, including API tests for a web environment.
    • Handled daily execution of the automation suite, maintenance, bug tracking, and follow-up.
    • Created the load tests using Locust (Python) for performance testing.
    Technologies: Cypress.io, Mocha, Jenkins, TestRail, Postman, Locust

  • QA Automation Senior

    2021 - 2022
    Endeavor
    • Created the Cypress test automation framework from scratch for end-to-end and regression testing, including API tests for a web environment.
    • Handled the daily execution of automation suite, maintenance, bug tracking, and follow-up.
    • Created the load tests using Locust (Python) for performance testing.
    Technologies: Cypress.io, Mocha, Postman, TestRail, Jenkins, Locust

  • QA Automation Senior

    2020 - 2021
    Alteryx
    • Created the Pywinauto test automation framework from scratch for end-to-end and regression testing.
    • Handled the daily execution of automation suite, maintenance, bug tracking, and follow-up.
    • Created a Jenkins CI to run the test suites after each merge.
    Technologies: Python, Pywinauto, Jenkins

  • Senior QA and Automation

    2012 - 2017
    Gilbarco Veeder Root
    • Worked as a senior QA performing smoke, exploratory, functional, integration, and regression testing through sprint cycles for a windows app coded in C++. This app is used in all gas stations point of sales in the United States.
    • Mentored other QA engineers in order to transfer knowledge and experience, but also in order to track the progress of regular daily and weekly tasks.
    • Led the final testing phase for 7Eleven client in the USA office, integrating the client point of sales hardware with the company software, ensuring the integration quality.
    • Wrote the automated regression suite using AutoIT tool from scratch.
    • Participated in the test automation framework creation using Jenkins, Java, and Selenium WebDriver for a web app environment.
    Technologies: Quality Assurance (QA), Scrum, Jira, Jenkins, Java, AutoIt, TestLink, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver

  • QA

    2011 - 2012
    PAMI
    • Worked as a tester on a new QA area in charge of testing all the web apps that were already there. Performed exploratory testing and wrote the app documentation. Reported the bugs found and performed the proper follow up with devs.
    • Participated in the test management process from scratch, deciding the tests cases design, the tests execution process, the bugs template, and bugs prioritization. Plus the tools to use like Jira for the project management and TestRail for the tests cases.
    • Wrote the automated regression tests using Selenium IDE.
    Technologies: Jira, Selenium IDE, TestLink

  • QA

    2010 - 2011
    FirstData (via Accenture)
    • Worked as a junior QA performing smoke, exploratory, functional, integration, and regression testing on a cobol app.
    • Wrote the use cases and test cases by requirements.
    • Reported the bugs found and performed the proper follow up with devs.
    • Worked using scrum methodology in constant communication with the client.
    Technologies: MVS, COBOL

Experience

Skills

  • Frameworks

    Selenium, Appium, XCUITest, TestNG, Django, Restlet, Cypress.io, Locust

  • Libraries/APIs

    Selenium WebDriver, WebDriver, Pywinauto

  • Tools

    Pytest, Atom, Jira, TestRail, Selenium Remote Control (RC), BrowserStack, GitHub, Git, Jenkins, Mocha, Postman

  • Paradigms

    Manual Testing, Automated Testing, Scrum, Functional Testing

  • Other

    Manual QA, QA Automation, Quality Assurance (QA), Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Exploratory Testing, QA Testing, Selenium PageFactory, Selenium Page Object, API Testing, QA Leadership, UI Testing, Selenium IDE, UX Testing, Website QA, Playwright

  • Languages

    Python, COBOL, AutoIt, Java

  • Platforms

    MacOS, Docker, TestLink

  • Storage

    MVS, MySQL

Education

  • Associate's Degree in Computer Engineering
    2008 - 2010
    University of Buenos Aires - Buenos Aires, Argentina

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