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.
10 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 (39)
gunicorn10
nginx10
vagrant10
flask10
google-sheet9
ansible9
python-tesseract9
google-sheets8
mobile-application6
pytest6
python6
applitools5
listings4
appium4
api4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
clovisphere/some-interviews-questions-and-answers
Feb 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
clovisphere/the-go-programming-language-answers
Dec 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
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