Summary
Carlos Portuguez is a Senior QA Engineer from Costa Rica with nine years of hands-on experience in manual and automated testing across UI, API, and integration layers. A Computer Science graduate from Universidad de Costa Rica, he has progressed from intern roles to senior positions, designing and maintaining test frameworks using REST Assured, Selenium, and Cypress while integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines. Carlos has a track record of improving test reliability by adapting pipelines, connecting device farms, and mentoring junior engineers to raise team quality standards. Comfortable coordinating directly with developers to diagnose failures and root causes, he blends practical automation skills with strong collaboration and code-review experience. Notably, he has repeatedly taken on platform-level improvements—like database integration into frameworks and exploring plugin ecosystems—to extend test coverage and scalability.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidad de Costa Rica UCR
Spanish, English