Marco Sanabria, Developer in Cartago, Cartago Province, Costa Rica
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Marco Sanabria

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QA Automation Developer

Cartago, Cartago Province, Costa Rica

Toptal member since December 15, 2021

Bio

Marco is a passionate SDET who always looks for solutions that automate manual processes in the development lifecycle. With over a decade of experience, he has worked on several projects, performing as a QA automation engineer, tech lead, and coach. Marco has conducted testing in several layers of modern web applications, including UI, API, and performance. He has also led teams developing QA strategies from the ground up.

Portfolio

Tellus
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), API Testing, Bash Script, Playwright, PostgreSQL, Postman...
Honor Education
Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Playwright, WebdriverIO, Appium, K6, Allure Report...
Zeedz GmbH
API Testing, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Cypress, CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions...

Experience

  • REST API Automation - 10 years
  • UI Automation - 10 years
  • JavaScript - 9 years
  • CI/CD Pipelines - 6 years
  • Cypress - 5 years
  • QA Leadership - 4 years
  • Python - 4 years
  • Performance - 1 year

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

JavaScript, Python, Java, QA Testing, CI/CD Pipelines, QA Leadership, Performance, UI Automation, API Testing, Ruby

The most amazing...

...project I've worked on as a lead SDET and coach to several team members is a cyber security threat detection system.

Work Experience

Senior QA Automation Engineer

2022 - PRESENT
Tellus
  • Designed and implemented an automated API test framework using RSpec to write tests and Faraday for HTTP requests. Dockerized this framework and included it in a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins with Docker Compose and leveraging Allure for the reports.
  • Proposed a centralized GitHub repository to have an API collection with all the API endpoints. So, every team member with access to this repo would have that collection. I included this repo in the back-end and front-end repos using Git submodules.
  • Designed and implemented a test automation framework for the app's web version, using Playwright with Node.js. I included the framework in the dev pipeline using GitHub Actions and leveraged Allure for reporting.
  • Contributed to the mobile automation framework for both Android and iOS on Java and Appium, as well as manual testing for new features.
  • Designed and implemented a back-end API using Node.js and Express.js. This API would process several requests from another microservice and would include integration with third-party websites using Playwright.
Technologies: Amazon S3 (AWS S3), API Testing, Bash Script, Playwright, PostgreSQL, Postman, JavaScript 6, Java 9, Selenium, Appium, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Docker Compose, Next.js, React, APIs, E2E Testing, Unit Testing, Testing, QA Test Plan Management

Senior QA Automation Engineer

2022 - 2024
Honor Education
  • Designed a QA strategy that involved test and development. Designed and implemented a new bug template that was spread across the teams to be widely used.
  • Added automation in Jira integrated with Slack such that every time a bug is filed in Jira, a new notification about it is sent to a Slack channel, including the description of the issue and the actual bug link.
  • Designed and implemented an automated testing framework for mobile apps on both Android and iOS using WebDriver with TypeScript, along with Appium, and integrated with Allure reports.
  • Designed and implemented an automated testing framework for web apps using Playwright with TypeScript, integrated with Allure reports. Integrated this into a CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins, where reports are stored in an AWS S3 bucket and served from there.
  • Led the QA manual team across the different platforms, iOS, Android, and web, to have a standard QA process for each prod release.
  • Worked as the first QA in the team and debugged the apps to file as many bugs as possible so that the team was aware of all the issues in the app and could prioritize those issues based on priority and severity to address them better.
Technologies: Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Playwright, WebdriverIO, Appium, K6, Allure Report, Jenkins Pipeline, REST APIs, JavaScript, TypeScript, QA Leadership, Testing Strategy, APIs, E2E Testing, Testing, QA Test Plan Management

QA Automation Engineer

2022 - 2022
Zeedz GmbH
  • Developed a QA process from scratch and translated this process to Jira by drawing a specific workflow for user stories, tasks, bugs, and dashboards for these workflows.
  • Designed and implemented a UI test automation framework using Cypress.io.
  • Created and implemented an API test automation framework using Cypress.io.
  • Integrated the QA automaton frameworks in CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions. These pipelines would allow developers to merge new code to the codebase only if tests would pass.
  • Merged the QA automation frameworks and the CI/CD pipelines with Cypress Dashboard service.
Technologies: API Testing, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Cypress, CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions, React, Web3.js, Docker, Front-end, Test Planning, Manual QA, JavaScript, APIs, E2E Testing, Testing, QA Test Plan Management

Senior QA Automation Engineer

2021 - 2022
Baires Dev
  • Designed a QA process from scratch, iterating with developers to make improvements every iteration to increase velocity and quality.
  • Led several meetings toward processes of teamwork, scrum culture, work team agreements and documented the outcome of these meetings to make action items for the team.
  • Worked with the existing automation framework in Cypress to implement better POM, such that it will make it more scalable and reliable.
  • Refactored several test cases by implementing better POM and Bot styles, along with designing a new testing strategy for new features.
Technologies: API Testing, Bash Script, JavaScript 6, Cypress, Node.js, E2E Testing, QA Test Plan Management

Staff Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer | Automation Engineer

2011 - 2021
Growth Acceleration Partners
  • Implemented QA strategies and processes from scratch for several clients. They included everything from manual testing to automated CI/CD pipeline tests and synchronizing test results to an AWS S3 bucket.
  • Automated hundreds of different tests for API, UI, and performance using various tools like Cypress.io, Capybara, Selenium, Pytest, Protractor, Sauce Labs, etc. Included these automated tests in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Designed and implemented several coding solutions to automate most of the manual processes during a prod release testing cycle, resulting in speeding up the testing process.
  • Participated in the organization of our technical manual QA and QA automation boot camps. Taught courses on best practices in QA automation, API testing, Cypress.io, and CI/CD as a trainer.
  • Worked as a personnel manager and oversaw several people. Coached and mentored them to help them grow and develop their careers in the company.
  • Participated in designing and implementing strategies to speed up the recruiting process and hire the right talent for the company as part of the company's interview core team. Collaborated with the staffing team.
  • Proposed redesigning the existing automation framework architecture by implementing best automation practices and design patterns, such as a page object model (POM). Trained the QA team members as well.
  • Held workshops on integrating an automation framework with services such as Sauce Labs. Gave short talks about Git and CSS.
  • Proposed a new GitFlow process to simplify merging feature branches and facilitate dealing with conflicts. Enabled parallelism in automation so that all test cases get executed in parallel.
  • Configured Selenium Grid to allow cross-browser and cross-platform testing. Integrated Jira and Zephyr for Jira with the automation process.
Technologies: QA Leadership, REST API Automation, API Testing, UI Automation, SDET, Cypress, JavaScript, Java 8, Ruby, Python, Jira, Jira REST API, CI/CD Pipelines, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, GraphQL, MySQL, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Protractor, Selenium Grid, Selenium, GitLab CI/CD, Git, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), HTML, Java, QA Testing, QA Automation, Pytest, Capybara, RSpec, TypeScript, Page Object Model (POM), MacOS, Linux, Windows, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Postman, PostgreSQL, Sauce Labs, Vim Text Editor, Bash Script, Python 3, K6, Robot Framework, Cucumber, Nightwatch.js, Vagrant, Zephyr, TestNG, Apache Maven, PHP, Laravel, Newman, Node.js, REST APIs, Test Automation, Front-end, Test Planning, Manual QA, APIs, E2E Testing, Unit Testing, Testing, QA Test Plan Management

Cybersecurity Threat Detection App

As a software development engineer in test (SDET), I automated hundreds of tests in several layers such as UI and API. I also designed and implemented frameworks from scratch using Protractor and Cypress.io. The team needed additional training in JavaScript and different frameworks, so I prepared and provided training sessions covering JavaScript, TypeScript, promises, arrow functions, design patterns, etc. In addition, I included frameworks in the CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI and Docker. Also, I created a Node.js package to interact with a Zephyr Scale's API and report Cypress.io results from GitLab CI to Zephyr.

Trainer in QA Boot Camps and Workshops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO5DrpccRNI&t=30s
I participated in the organization and contributed to a couple of QA boot camps in manual technical quality assurance (QA) and QA automation as a trainer focusing on teaching JavaScript. The lectures included, among other topics, discussions on JavaScript basics, callbacks, arrays, and promises. Additionally, my co-worker and I also gave a talk about CI/CD in Spanish.

Healthcare Software Application

This healthcare software is a medical system that interacts with medical care providers, specialists, and patients through a referral and electronic consultation form. It facilitates and makes patients' consultations better and faster, even if they are from remote places.

I rebuilt the client's trust in us by defining a new QA process and including a new GitFlow that helped us provide faster and more reliable results. This new process helped foster better communication between the QA and development teams and a move to a better CI/CD environment. The pipeline was initiated in Jenkins and finished in Jira with charts showing test results. This facilitated the product owner's decision-making process.

In addition, as a QA automation lead, I coached the other QA automation engineers in the team to help them improve their skills. The client ended up being more than satisfied with the work done.

QA Automation for Car Dealerships

Automotive dealerships use a customer relationship management (CRM) process to keep track of every transaction made by clients and employees. This app handles many tasks, from contacts and calendar events to complex dashboards showing processed sales data and creating dynamic graphs.

I was part of the core team that designed and implemented the automation framework using Capybara with RSpec as the app was written using Ruby on Rails, which provided a better and easier integration. Then the client wanted to have cross-browser coverage, so I contributed to an investigation which led us to propose Sauce Labs services. Finally, I worked on integrating such a service with our automation framework.

As a result, the client decided to grow our team and I became a coach to the new team members on the project and in the process.

QA Automation for SIEM

Security information and event management (SIEM) is a software solution dedicated to monitoring devices, networks, and organizations. I contributed to creating a new automation framework from scratch using JavaScript and Nightwatch.js. I proposed and helped implement the framework's infrastructure using known design patterns such as page objects and bot style tests.

Blockchain Nft Game App

https://play.zeedz.io/
Thanks to Blockchain and NFT technology, you own little creatures (Zeedles/NFTs). Where you can grow, evolve, and customize them as you wish, increasing their value dramatically. Then you can sell it and start all over again, or keep it forever and collect even more.
2008 - 2014

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering

Fidélitas University - San José, Costa Rica

DECEMBER 2020 - PRESENT

Advanced Level Test Automation Engineer

ISTQB

DECEMBER 2017 - PRESENT

Certified Tester Foundation Level

ISTQB

Libraries/APIs

Playwright, Jira REST API, Selenium Grid, REST APIs, Nightwatch.js, Newman, Node.js, React, Web3.js, Jenkins Pipeline

Tools

Git, Postman, Pytest, RSpec, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub, Jira, Jenkins, Vim Text Editor, Cucumber, Vagrant, Zephyr, Apache Maven, Docker Compose, WebdriverIO, Allure Report

Languages

JavaScript, Python, Java, Ruby, HTML, GraphQL, TypeScript, Bash Script, Python 3, Java 8, PHP, JavaScript 6, Java 9

Frameworks

Selenium, Cypress, Capybara, Protractor, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Robot Framework, TestNG, Laravel, Appium, Next.js

Paradigms

Page Object Model (POM), Test Automation, E2E Testing, Unit Testing, Testing, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)

Platforms

Docker, MacOS, Linux, Windows, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Storage

MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)

Other

QA Testing, UI Automation, API Testing, Quality Assurance (QA), QA Automation, REST API Automation, Front-end, Test Planning, Manual QA, APIs, QA Test Plan Management, CI/CD Pipelines, QA Leadership, SDET, Sauce Labs, Performance, K6, GitHub Actions, Testing Strategy

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