Aurélien Lair
@aurlienlair
QA leader driving pragmatic, business-aligned quality, automation, and observability for faster, safer delivery.
ItalyWhat I'm looking for
I am a QA Manager with 15+ years in software development, test engineering, and quality leadership, currently leading a distributed QA team across Europe and Africa at TUI Musement.
I embed Agile, Lean and DevOps principles across the SDLC, introducing risk-based testing, scalable CI/CD (GitLab, Docker, AWS) and observability (Datadog, New Relic) to accelerate delivery and reduce escaped defects.
My work delivered measurable improvements: faster release cycles via CI optimisation, a 40% improvement in incident detection through Datadog dashboards, and a 20% reduction in escaped defects quarter-over-quarter.
I actively contribute to the testing community as co-organiser of Continuous Testing Meetup and Ministry of Testing Milan, and I coach teams to own performance, monitoring and automation to strengthen engineering culture.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Quality Assurance Manager
TUI Musement
Dec 2023 - Present (1 year 11 months)
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.
Quality Assurance Technical Lead
TUI Musement
Nov 2021 - Dec 2023 (2 years 1 month)
Mentored a team of automation engineers, led migration from TestCafe to Selenium WebDriver (Python), and improved CI pipeline stability and test maintainability across microservices.
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
TUI Musement
Apr 2020 - Nov 2021 (1 year 7 months)
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.
Senior PHP Developer
TUI Musement
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020 (1 year 10 months)
Developed backend services with Symfony and Elasticsearch and created AWS Lambda functions to support scalable search and cross-environment integrations.
Senior PHP Developer
Onebip
Jan 2010 - May 2018 (8 years 4 months)
Applied TDD/BDD and Extreme Programming practices to deliver maintainable PHP services, automated CI/CD pipelines, and contributed to SOA design with asynchronous messaging.
PHP Developer Consultant
IFABER
Feb 2008 - Jan 2010 (1 year 11 months)
Developed Italy's e-procurement platform for public auctions and delivered custom software solutions for public administration and utilities.
SQL Server Specialist
UniCredit
Jun 2007 - Jan 2008 (7 months)
Maintained and optimized SQL Server databases, developed and tuned stored procedures and ETL jobs to support data warehousing and batch processing.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Institut Universitaire de Technologie - Le Havre
DUT Informatique, Computer Science
2005 - 2007
Completed a two-year DUT program in Computer Science covering software development, systems, and networking fundamentals.
Gréta Rouen Tertiaire
Qualification Informatique, Information Technology
2004 - 2005
Completed a vocational qualification in information technology focused on practical IT skills and professional preparation.
Lycée de la Vallée du Cailly
Baccalauréat Littéraire (Option Italien), Humanities / Languages
1996 - 2000
Completed a literary baccalauréat with Italian option, providing a broad humanities education and language study.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Location
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