Fernando Teixeira
Lead QA Engineer at Verivox GmbH
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolFernando Teixeira is a Lead QA Engineer based in Heidelberg with eight years of hands-on experience building test automation, performance and contract testing for large-scale microservices and legacy migrations. He has driven quality transformations at Verivox and Zup Innovation, introducing Pact contract testing, Locust-based performance suites, and CI/CD improvements that cut release friction and improved response times by up to 40%. Fernando excels at coaching cross-functional teams—having mentored multiple QA engineers and made performance and contract testing repeatable company-wide for teams of 25 and more. Comfortable across languages (C#, JavaScript, Python, PHP, Java, Kotlin, Swift) and tools (Jenkins, Docker, Elastic Kibana, SonarQube), he blends pragmatic engineering with measurable business impact. He’s particularly effective at translating complex distributed-system risks into targeted test strategies, evidenced by enabling a Verivox vertical to iterate 10x faster. Outside of work he’s a perpetual learner who experiments with new technologies and frameworks to keep teams ahead of emerging quality challenges.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Viçosa
Portuguese, English, German
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Github Skills (104)
performance-testing10
devtools10
test-automation10
cucumber10
benchmarking10
java10
spring-boot10
jasmine10
synchronous10
protractor10
pact-broker10
webdriver9
test-automation-framework9
javascript9
golang9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
teixeira-fernando/library-microservices
Nov 2023 - Aug 2024
Library management application in Node.js, setting up different layers of test automation to cover the application microservices and at the same time, exercising some best practices from javascript.
Contributions:91 PRs, 96 pushes, 67 branches in 8 months
teixeira-fernando/BaselinePerformanceTest-Locust
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
This is a setup to use Locust, Docker-compose and Github-Actions to run baseline performance tests
Contributions:42 commits, 26 PRs, 48 pushes in 10 months
performance-testslocust-dockerdockercomposeperformance
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