Vladimir Lazar
Senior Software QA Engineer at Red Hat
Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolVladimir Lazar is a Senior Software QA Engineer with around a decade of hands-on experience and four years in focused QA roles, currently at Red Hat in Málaga. He combines deep expertise in both manual and automated testing with a strong background in embedded automotive systems and recent leadership validating complex trading and risk platforms for a major hedge fund. Comfortable as an individual contributor or team lead, he has built testing frameworks, CI-friendly tooling, and processes from scratch using C#, Typescript, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium and related stacks. Vladimir is practiced at stakeholder communication across technical and executive levels, driving release approvals and mentoring teams to improve test coverage and quality. Beyond standard QA duties he has repeatedly bridged gaps between development, product and operations—whether implementing APIs for system tests in automotive infotainment or standardizing validation for financial software—bringing pragmatic engineering discipline to validation.
3 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Matematică și informatică, Bachelor of Science (BS), Matematică și informatică at Universitatea din BucureștiColegiul National Aurel Vlaicu
Romanian, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
podman10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
linux10
desktop10
pods10
ai9
runc9
firefox8
api8
chrome8
nextflow-tower8
bioinformatics8
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cbr7/podman-desktop
Jan 2024 - Apr 2025
Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes
Contributions:4 PRs, 284 pushes, 79 branches in 1 year 2 months
cbr7/podman-desktop-extension-bootc
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Support for bootable OS containers (bootc) and generating disk images
Contributions:4 PRs, 193 pushes, 53 branches in 1 year 1 month
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