Aurélien Lair

Lead a distributed QA team across Europe and Africa, introduced risk-based testing and CI/CD practices that reduced CI pipeline durations by 25% and decreased escaped defects by 20% quarter-over-quarter.

Mentored a team of automation engineers, led migration from TestCafe to Selenium WebDriver (Python), and improved CI pipeline stability and test maintainability across microservices.

Built test plans for high-risk areas and automated 50+ end-to-end and API tests while integrating GitLab CI/CD and monitoring to improve release confidence and observability.

Developed backend services with Symfony and Elasticsearch and created AWS Lambda functions to support scalable search and cross-environment integrations.

Applied TDD/BDD and Extreme Programming practices to deliver maintainable PHP services, automated CI/CD pipelines, and contributed to SOA design with asynchronous messaging.

Developed Italy's e-procurement platform for public auctions and delivered custom software solutions for public administration and utilities.

Maintained and optimized SQL Server databases, developed and tuned stored procedures and ETL jobs to support data warehousing and batch processing.

Completed a two-year DUT program in Computer Science covering software development, systems, and networking fundamentals.

Completed a vocational qualification in information technology focused on practical IT skills and professional preparation.

Completed a literary baccalauréat with Italian option, providing a broad humanities education and language study.