Clovis Mugaruka
QA Automation Engineer
Nairobi County, Kenya
Summary
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Top SchoolClovis Mugaruka is a QA Automation Engineer with nine years of experience building and improving test automation for fintech and payments platforms across Africa and beyond. Currently on Upwork’s WM team, he focuses on backend automation, bringing previous senior test engineering experience from Tala, JUMO, and Cellulant where he combined coding, exploratory testing, and performance testing using tools like Locust and JMeter. He has a track record of advocating quality across distributed teams spanning multiple continents and shipping reliable test suites for microservices and mobile endpoints. Comfortable with both hands-on test code and mentoring teams, he blends practical engineering with a pragmatic approach to quality. Based in Nairobi and trained in software engineering at the University of Eastern Africa Baraton, he brings deep regional fintech domain knowledge and a human-centered, curiosity-driven outlook to complex testing challenges.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering at University of Eastern Africa Baraton
English, French
Github Skills (55)
gunicorn10
google-sheet9
flask9
vagrant9
nginx9
google-sheets8
ansible8
python7
docker7
listings6
avatar6
automated-tests5
applitools5
pytest5
browserstack5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
clovisphere/pytesseract-demo
May 2020 - Nov 2022
Sample code to show how to use the Python tesseract wrapper/library
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
wrapper-librarytesseract-pythonpythontesseract
clovisphere/appium-automated-test-demo
Aug 2019 - Mar 2022
A sample app that showcase how to automate mobile app tests with appium
Contributions:37 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 8 months
pythonautomated-testingappiumbrowserstackmobile-app
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