Elyer Gregorio Maldonado
@elyergm
Senior QA Lead | Playwright | AI/LLM Testing | Performance & Security | 13+ yrs enterprise QA
What I'm looking for
Senior QA Automation Lead with 13+ years delivering end-to-end
quality strategies for enterprise clients in government, fintech,
healthtech, and e-commerce.
I specialize in:
→ Test Automation E2E — Playwright + TypeScript, Page Object Model,
parallel execution, Allure reporting
→ AI/LLM Testing — LLM-as-Judge (Claude/GPT-4/Gemini), Garak
red-teaming, OWASP LLM Top 10:2025, NIST AI RMF
→ Voice AI Testing — ElevenLabs stress testing, voice→LLM→voice
pipeline validation under sustained load
→ Performance Testing — K6, JMeter, stress 1,000+ VUs, soak
testing 1-4h, Grafana/Prometheus/InfluxDB dashboards
→ Security Testing — OWASP ZAP (SQLi, XSS, CSRF), Semgrep,
Trivy, OWASP Top 10:2021
→ CI/CD — GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Docker
Key achievements:
- Generated 1,300+ AI-assisted test cases using Claude API
before development started (shift-left approach)
- Built dual-VM QA infrastructure with 29 tools approved by
client Security Operations Center
- Led 10 QA Engineers across 8+ simultaneous enterprise projects
- Designed Voice AI stress tests on ElevenLabs conversational
endpoints (voice→LLM→voice pipeline)
- Built QASL Ecosystem — 4 flagship tools with proprietary
forensic algorithms: AFQI, CFQI, MATHCORE, VCR
I work async-first. All deliverables in written English.
Open to full-time remote, long-term contracts, and QA consulting.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior QA Automation Lead
EPIDATA Consulting
Mar 2025 - Apr 2026 (1 year 1 month)
Led AI/LLM and voice AI QA strategy, building enterprise stress and red-teaming frameworks; generated 1,300+ test cases using Claude API and managed up to 10 QA engineers across 8+ concurrent projects. Implemented Playwright E2E and GitLab CI pipelines with dual-VM performance/security execution and observability, aligned to ISTQB v4.0, ISO/IEC/IEEE 29119, OWASP Top 10, and NIST AI RMF.
QA Automation Engineer
UPEX
Aug 2020 - Dec 2024 (4 years 4 months)
Built Playwright Page Object Model automation in TypeScript covering E2E flows across 4 concurrent products, improving maintainability and reducing flakiness. Integrated JMeter/K6 performance and OWASP ZAP security into CI/CD via GitHub Actions and mentored 15+ junior QA engineers.
QA Lead / Project Manager
Stop Medical
Apr 2013 - May 2020 (7 years 1 month)
Directed HIPAA-compliant implementation of hospital information systems across 5 medical centers, validating critical clinical workflows and sensitive data traceability. Coordinated multidisciplinary teams of up to 8 and created manual acceptance testing plans with medical stakeholders to ensure zero compliance incidents during sensitive data migrations.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
ISTQB
ISTQB Foundation Level v4.0, Software Testing
2026 -
Planned to complete the ISTQB Foundation Level v4.0.
Anthropic Academy
Claude Code in Action (course), AI tooling & Claude Code
2025 -
Completed the Claude Code in Action training by Anthropic Academy.
UPEX Academy
API Testing & Automation (course), API Testing & Automation
2024 -
Completed a course focused on API testing and automation.
UPEX Academy
Playwright Advanced Testing (course), Test Automation (Playwright)
2023 -
Completed Playwright Advanced Testing training.
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Software and tools used professionally
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