Matías Cárdenas

Working full time as consultant for client Rabobank.

• Performing as a Business Analyst | Platform Engineer developing and maintaining both on-premises and cloud applications
• Gathering requirements and managing stakeholders expectations
• Designing and implementing new features and bug fixes
• Automating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, Python)
• Troubleshooting incidents in both on-prem (Linux servers) and cloud environments (AKS - k8s)

Part of the platform domain of the company, working cross-development teams providing solutions in the API ecosystem.

• Developed in-house libraries and services to support API development and testing (Python, Django-Ninja, Docker)
• Defining REST API guidelines and standards and enabling/enforcing them through all the development teams
• Automating CI/CD around the API design process (Gitlab CI, Python)
• Developed a service for supporting end-to-end tests performed from the front end (Python, DRF, PostgreSQL)
• Introduced BDD and pytest-bdd within the teams for improving collaboration and promoting behavior driven development
• Introduced contract testing approach within the organization, creating guidelines, POCs and maintaining an open source library (django-contract-tester)
• Assisting product engineering teams in API design

Worked full-time for client ASML.

• Developed and maintained a set of applications in Python, used by test and development teams to perform crucial system integration tests
• Migrated two applications from python 2.7 to 3.8
• Merged two applications (one with python 2.7 and another one with python 3.8) with similar use cases into one, performing a heavy refactoring
• Collaborated with development and testing teams, gathering functional and non-functional requirements for improving process within their system tests
• Support and assistance in tooling usage, troubleshooting errors, and fixing bugs

Consultant for Samsung, in particular for the project of their IoT application (SmartThings).

• Developed and maintained a test framework used by multiple microservices (Java and RESTAssured)

• Defined functional test strategies for both the backend and end-to-end test of the application
• Maintained legacy test framework and introduced a new one for end-to-end tests with Java and Selenium

Transitioned from previous role to QA Automation Engineer.

• Design and implementation of a new test automation framework
• Implemented automated tests for end to end tests within different services (PL/SQL and vbscript)