Alfonso De La Escalera
Manager DevOps & Quality Enablement at BBVA
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolAlfonso De La Escalera is a seasoned DevOps and quality enablement manager with 11+ years designing and architecting web and mobile software, currently leading DevOps & Quality Enablement at BBVA from Madrid. He brings deep hands-on experience across Java, JavaScript, Spring, Node.js and cloud/container platforms (Pivotal CF, Docker), and a strong track record in search, databases and portal/CMS technologies. Alfonso combines architecture-level design with practical delivery—having built mobile products as a freelancer and implemented portal solutions at ISBAN and Santander group firms. An active open-source contributor, he has improved UI behavior in the Angular project and enhanced Kubernetes-based Selenium infrastructure in Zalenium, showing skill across front-end, test automation and infrastructure. Known for applying TDD/BDD and agile engineering practices, he bridges developer productivity, test automation and scalable deployments to accelerate enterprise delivery.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineer, 9, Software Engineer, 9 at Universidad Pontificia Comillas
English, French
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Github Skills (32)
kubernetes10
javascript10
docker10
webdriverio10
testing10
cucumber10
typescript10
containerization10
dockers10
mochajs10
typescript-types10
kubernetes-pods10
web-framework10
typescripts10
test-automation10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/zalenium
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
A flexible and scalable container based Selenium Grid with video recording, live preview, basic auth & dashboard.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs, 13 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alfonso primarily contributed to the infrastructure and deployment aspects of Zalenium, focusing on Kubernetes integration. They implemented features related to custom schedulers within the Kubernetes environment, enhancing container management. Furthermore, the user's contributions extended to improving file handling within the Kubernetes cluster, specifically optimizing how files are copied from pods using shared folders.
capybaraselenium-gridvideodashboarddocker-selenium
webdriverio/webdriverio
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Next-gen browser and mobile automation test framework for Node.js
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alfonso primarily contributed to the test automation infrastructure of the project. They added support for skipping tests based on capabilities and other conditions within the cucumber framework, improving the test filtering capabilities. They also added additional test coverage across cucumber and mocha frameworks, enhancing the robustness of the test suite. Additionally, the user fixed existing tests and added better error logging improving the debugging process.
test-automation-frameworkjasminemobile-automationcucumberperformance-test
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