Lucía Fernández
QA Automation Engineer
Madrid, Spain (remote)·lucia.fernandez@example.com·+34 612 345 678·linkedin.com/in/luciafernandez·github.com/luciaqa
Summary
QA automation engineer with 4 years building test suites for developer tools and payment apps. Turns flaky, slow releases into fast and predictable ones, and helps engineers own quality instead of handing it off. Works fully remote across time zones. ISTQB-certified.
Experience
QA Automation EngineerFeb 2022 – Present
Codebase CloudRemote
- Built a Playwright and API test suite of 900 tests across web and CLI, cutting regression time from 3 days to 4 hours.
- Cut flaky tests from 12% to 1.5% by isolating test data and adding retries only where the network is involved.
- Caught 35 release-blocking bugs in 2023 before they reached 2M developers.
- Sped up merge-request feedback to under 15 minutes by splitting the suite across 20 CI runners.
- Coached 3 feature teams to write their own end-to-end tests, tripling test contributions from developers.
QA EngineerJun 2020 – Jan 2022
Iberia PaymentsMadrid
- Wrote 600 manual and API test cases for a banking portal and automated 70% of them.
- Established a bug-triage routine that cut average fix time from 9 to 4 days.
- Designed contract tests for 8 partner APIs, preventing 12 breaking changes from reaching production.
- Ran performance tests that exposed a checkout slowdown before a 3× holiday traffic peak.
- Built test data factories that let the team reset environments in 2 minutes instead of an hour.
- Mentored 2 manual testers who moved into automation roles.
QA Analyst InternSep 2019 – May 2020
Iberia PaymentsMadrid
- Tested 40 releases of the mobile banking app on 12 Android and iOS devices.
- Documented 150 test cases that became the basis of the regression suite.
- Reported 90 defects with clear reproduction steps and screenshots.
- Verified accessibility of key screens with screen readers and filed 25 issues.
Education
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid2016 – 2020
B.Sc., Software Engineering
Skills
Automation
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Selenium
- Postman
- k6
Languages
- TypeScript
- Ruby
- SQL
Process
- CI/CD
- Test planning
- GitLab CI
- Contract testing
Certifications
ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level · ISTQBMay 2021
Languages
Spanish (Native) · English: Professional (C1)