Richard Pappalardo
Engineering Manager at Mozilla
Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain
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RockstarRichard Pappalardo is an Engineering Manager based in Valencia with 11 years of experience leading mobile test engineering teams, currently focused on improving quality and reliability at Mozilla. He combines hands-on test automation expertise with people leadership, having implemented robust UI test patterns, parallel execution, and CI-integrated reporting for flagship Android projects like Firefox for Android and Firefox Focus. Richard’s contributions show a practical knack for refactoring flaky tests and organizing maintainable robot-pattern test suites that reduce churn across large open-source codebases. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of QA, automation tooling, and release pipelines, and brings an engineer’s attention to detail to cross-functional delivery. An interesting, less obvious strength is his emphasis on test architecture—structuring tests to scale with product complexity rather than just adding coverage.
11 years of coding experience
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test-automation10
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mozilla9
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-mobile/fenix
May 2019 - Aug 2020
⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 reviews, 38 commits, 102 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the development of automated UI tests for the Firefox for Android project, specifically focusing on testing the home screen and various settings menus. Their work involved creating robot pattern implementations for different UI components like the home screen, three-dot menu, and settings, suggesting a focus on test organization and maintainability. The user also added tests for various features, including navigation toolbar, share button, and first-run elements.
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mozilla-mobile/focus-android
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
⚠️ Firefox Focus (Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 20 commits, 25 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily focused on improving the quality and reliability of the Firefox Focus Android application through automated testing. Their commits included fixing test failures and implementing tests for features such as search engine selection, webview data handling, and adding to homescreen functionality. Additionally, the user refactored UI tests, introduced parallel test execution, and ensured correct test results reporting within the CI/CD pipeline.
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