ALDRIN JOSE CARTAGO
Principal Software Development Engineer In Test
Quezon City
Summary
A Principal Software Development Engineer in Test who has over 9 years of software testing experience, specializing in automating UI, API, and performance tests. Passionate in streamlining testing processes for a successful product launch across multiple industries including financial, insurance, human resources, public sector, and aviation industries.
A result-oriented professional with a proven track record in building automation frameworks in an agile environment and highly complex projects.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Software Development Engineer in Test
Coherent
Makati
01.2020 - Current
- Pioneered and established the QA team by providing a reputable testing service to multiple financial projects which opened the growth of the team to 15 FTE in an Agile environment
- Successfully automated 2,000+ test cases for regression and performance testing into mobile and web insurance systems for a high- profile customer with 20,000+ end-user agents. This resulted in high customer satisfaction and acquiring additional Coherent products.
- Conducted performance tests against multiple projects prior to go-live using Artillery and K6. Provided suggestions on performance improvement using Elastic APM as our monitoring tool.
- Trained developers and quality assurance team members in automation programs and processes using Selenium, webdriver.io, frisby.js, Postman, and GitHubActions for CI/CD.
- Reviewed all automated test cases and test scripts for quality and identified additional areas to review using GitHub.
- Worked closely with different departments to develop innovative solutions to functionality issues.
Senior QA Automation
BCS Technology
Makati City
05.2019 - 01.2020
- Led 2+ projects as QA automation lead
- Built an automation framework from scratch for an API and UI-based application using RestSharp
- Advised developers on problems with databases, performance and other issues.
- Documented testing procedures for developers and future testing use.
- Completed in-depth usability testing on Windows, Android and iOS mobile devices.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
Software Development Engineer in Test
Frontier Software
Makati
05.2018 - 05.2019
- Used open-source tools to develop automation scripts such as Protractor and Cucumber using TypeScript
- Conducted code review with my fellow automation engineers
- Mentored junior testers on how to test an HCM module
- Optimized test cases to maximize success of manual software testing.
- Assessed software bugs and compiled findings along with suggested resolutions for development team members using Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
- Conducted regression testing, analyzed results, and submitted observations to development team.
QA Engineer
KGB Philippines
Taguig
02.2017 - 05.2018
- Pioneered the automation testing in our team using Selenium with Ruby on Rails in a Cucumber framework for a financial services software.
- Led the entire automation team for Manila
- Transformed manual testers to automation engineers by conducting a series of workshops.
- Developed and executed QA test cases, scripts and procedures for automated software maintenance.
- Resolved technical issues and forecasted troubleshooting complications during software trials.
- Monitored resolution of bugs, tested fixes and helped developers tackle ongoing problems by providing QA perspective.
Software QA Analyst
Infor
Taguig
09.2014 - 02.2017
- Performed Smoke, Regression, and Sanity Testing for Infor Public Sector System in an Agile environment.
- Provided Selenium and automation training for manual QA engineers
- Built an automation framework from scratch using C# and Selenium in a Page Object Model framework.
- Developed libraries, object repositories, and configurations for our automation team to us.
- Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities, reported findings and recommended improvements using JIRA
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Mapua University
Makati City, Philippines 06.2009 - 06.2014
Skills
Automation Testing
Selenium, webdriverio, Protractor and Cucumber
API Testing
Postman, frisbyjs, Swagger, RestSharp
Performance Testing
K6, Artillery, JMeter, Loadero
Programming/Scripting Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, Ruby, Java, C#
GitHubActions, CircleCI, ElasticAPM, AWS
JIRA, Confluence, Zephyr, TestRail
GitHub, SourceTree, BitBucket
Certification
SPARK Expert User
Timeline
SPARK Expert User
01-2023
Principal Software Development Engineer in Test
Coherent
01.2020 - Current
Senior QA Automation
BCS Technology
05.2019 - 01.2020
Software Development Engineer in Test
Frontier Software
05.2018 - 05.2019
QA Engineer
KGB Philippines
02.2017 - 05.2018
Software QA Analyst
Infor
09.2014 - 02.2017
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Mapua University
06.2009 - 06.2014