Lucas Ávila is a Lead QA Engineer from Minas Gerais, Brazil, with over 15 years in software development and 13+ years focused on quality engineering across consulting and product environments. He combines hands-on test automation expertise (Ruby, JavaScript, Cypress, WebDriverIO, Appium) with people and project leadership, having led remote, cross-functional teams and managed QA strategy and metrics. At Toptal he elevated screening platform quality through end-to-end automation, GraphQL contract checks, and CI integrations, later transitioning to engineering management to balance product delivery and technical debt. He has built test suites from scratch, migrated frameworks, and onboarded engineers, showing a pragmatic approach to sustainable test pyramids and developer enablement. Comfortable across web, mobile, API and performance testing, he pairs deep technical practice with agile process coaching and measurable team outcomes. Seeking roles where he can scale quality practices and mentor teams to deliver reliable software in complex, evolving environments.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Project Administration with Software Engineer Emphasis Computer Software Engineering, MBA Project Administration with Software Engineer Emphasis Computer Software Engineering at IETEC - Instituto de Educação Tecnológica
Computer Science Bachelor Ciência da Computação, Computer Science Bachelor Ciência da Computação at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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