Mauro Malara is a QA Engineer from Mendoza, Argentina with seven years of experience improving software quality across the SDLC through automation, testing infrastructure, and release coordination. He has hands-on expertise with Python, Pytest, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible and AWS, having built and maintained multiple CI pipelines and end-to-end test suites at Wazuh鈥攁n established open-source security platform鈥攚here he also refactored and migrated test frameworks. Mauro combines practical automation (API, E2E, load testing) with process improvements like test reuse and deployment automation, and he has experience supporting users in English. His background includes volunteer work applying Atomic Design to mobile apps and significant efficiency gains such as a 40% storage optimization using log rotation. Known for reducing code repetition and enabling smoother releases, he focuses on measurable quality outcomes and early-stage testing to prevent defects.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura, Sistemas de informaci贸n, Licenciatura, Sistemas de informaci贸n at Universidad Champagnat
Wazuh - The Open Source Security Platform. Unified XDR and SIEM protection for endpoints and cloud workloads.
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Contributions:28 reviews, 6 PRs, 54 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Mauro primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure and handling of Wazuh daemons by adding scopes and configurations for testing purposes. They refactored existing test code, updated the testing framework, and migrated several test suites. Additionally, the user contributed to the API test suite by modifying the test cases.
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