André Castro
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolAndré Castro is a Senior QA Automation Engineer and engineering leader with 20+ years in IT and a decade of hands-on experience scaling QA, development and DevOps teams across startups and enterprises. He builds high-performing teams and end-to-end automated quality platforms—introducing shift-left, quality-assistance practices and CI/CD pipelines across unit, integration, contract and performance testing. Comfortable both managing people and shipping technical solutions, he’s led re-platformings, cloud migrations (AWS, EKS) and implemented observability, release and security checks with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI and Jenkins. Known for hiring and retention expertise, he has repeatedly grown small QA groups into large, stable chapters with strong NPS and retention metrics. Pragmatic in code, André still ships automation in Java, TypeScript and JavaScript while mentoring engineers to move from manual QA into automation and development. Outside work he’s a dedicated dad, amateur photographer and BBQ enthusiast—traits that hint at his patient, hands-on leadership style.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel Sistemas de Informação, Bacharel Sistemas de Informação at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Portuguese, EnglishProgramming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dedecastrobr/polimorfismo
Aug 2015 - Apr 2018
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
dedecastrobr/seu-bot
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 27 pushes, 3 branches in 22 days
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