Ricardo Branco
QE Automation Engineer
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolRicardo Branco is a Senior QE Automation Engineer with 10 years of experience building and automating tests for enterprise Linux across containers and public clouds while working at SUSE from Nuremberg. He specializes in openQA-driven test development for SLES, JeOS and MicroOS on multiple architectures (x86_64, ppc64le, aarch64, s390x) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack), and has applied Terraform and CI practices to scale QA for complex releases. Ricardo’s open-source contributions include enhancing the os-autoinst test suite for openSUSE with robust SAP HANA installation tests, timeouts, error handling and infrastructure fixes—demonstrating a focus on reliability under real-world conditions. Previously he built hybrid bare-metal/cloud automation, trusted builds and secure election systems at Smartmatic, blending OS engineering, Ansible and Docker with security-first practices. He combines hands-on scripting and infrastructure design with cross-architecture test strategy, and his background as a former hacker-turned-security specialist gives him a pragmatic edge in hardening and auditability.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Universidad Simón BolívarBachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at U.E. Nuestra Señora del Rosario
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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docker10
testing10
perl10
opensuse10
qtest10
test-automation10
scripting9
container9
dockerfile9
shell9
script9
sh9
git-repository8
repos8
device-mapper6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
os-autoinst/os-autoinst-distri-opensuse
Oct 2018 - Jan 2023
os-autoinst test cases for openSUSE
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1213 reviews, 151 commits, 863 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to enhancing the test suite for the `os-autoinst-distri-opensuse` repository, focused on test cases for openSUSE. The commits include adding tests for SAP HANA installation, incorporating improvements to existing tests such as adding timeouts and handling errors more effectively. The user also made modifications related to test infrastructure, like preventing issues with the mouse pointer and adding a fork bomb test.
opensusecasestest-cases
ricardobranco777/linux-procfs
Jun 2019 - Apr 2024
List running processes using files deleted by recent upgrades
Contributions:4 PRs, 374 pushes, 178 branches in 4 years 10 months
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