Ricardo Fernández
QA Lead Senior Automation Engineer
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Fernández is a Senior QA Automation Engineer with 13 years focusing on quality-driven software development, continuous integration/delivery and test automation across Java, Python, JavaScript and some Go. He blends hands-on engineering—building testable, decoupled layers and provisioning CI/CD environments—with leadership experience as a QA Lead at Telefónica and cross-team QA roles. His background in Free Software and long history with ALM tooling (Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube, Atlassian suite) means he routinely improves developer productivity and deployment safety through automation and tooling. Based in Valencia, he is active in local communities, continually learning and sharing pragmatic solutions inspired by TDD, SOLID and CI best practices. An inquisitive pragmatist (GitHub bio: “Trying to be a Pragmatic Programmer”), he pairs research and documentation skills with a track record of delivering reliable validation for real-time and payment-critical systems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Universitat Politècnica de ValènciaMáster Oficial en Software Libre Informática - Software Libre, Máster Oficial en Software Libre Informática - Software Libre at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
Spanish, English, Catalan
Github Skills (55)
selenium10
test-project10
mobile-application10
java9
sqlite-jdbc9
appium9
gherkin9
driver9
sqlite8
integration-testing8
database8
redmine8
bdd8
sonarqube7
golang7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
SonarqubeGeekshubs/environment-docker-compose
Feb 2017 - May 2024
:whale: Docker compose recipes
Contributions:16 PRs, 22 pushes, 19 branches in 7 years 3 months
recipesdockercomposedocker-composewhale
ricardogarfe/java-maven-calculator-api
Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
Pet project for continuous testing purposes
Contributions:34 PRs, 38 pushes, 34 branches in 1 year 5 months
continuous-testingtestingautomationcontinuous
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