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Monica Ovando

@monicaovando

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QA Lead & SDET building automation for web, mobile, and API quality in Agile teams.

Argentina

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a QA/SDET role where I can lead release-quality planning, expand automation from UI to APIs, and collaborate in Agile/SCRUM teams—especially in remote, cross-functional environments focused on continuous improvement.

I’m a QA Analyst and SDET with 7+ years of experience in manual and automated testing for web applications, mobile platforms, and API integrations. I lead QA teams, improve quality through continuous iteration, and bring a test-driven quality assurance mindset to every release.

In my QA Lead role, I own end-to-end release planning, define testing scope, track coverage, and sign off on deployments. I build and maintain Playwright automation scripts for UI flows, create Postman collections for API regression, run the full test lifecycle in ClickUp, and deliver daily QA dashboards and metrics to stakeholders.

I’ve also designed regression and smoke test strategies, established traceability with XRAY on Jira, and architected an end-to-end Selenium + Cucumber + Java automation framework. I thrive in fully remote, cross-functional Agile/SCRUM environments and enjoy collaborating closely with product managers and developers to align on quality standards and acceptance criteria.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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QA Lead

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Robotic Crew

Jun 2025 - Present (1 year)

Led a team of manual QA testers, coordinating daily priorities and sprint planning. Owned end-to-end release planning, built Playwright UI automation and Postman API regression collections, and managed the full test lifecycle in ClickUp with daily QA dashboards.

Playwright Postman Test Planning API Regression ClickUp JavaScript

QA Tester

Robotic Crew

Feb 2025 - May 2025 (3 months)

Performed functional and exploratory testing for core application features and authored test cases from user stories and acceptance criteria. Developed initial Playwright (UI) and Postman (API) automation scripts and coordinated release testing and cross-team sign-off.

Exploratory testing Functional Testing Playwright Postman API Testing User Stories Acceptance Criteria

QA Analyst

InvGate

Feb 2022 - Jan 2024 (1 year 11 months)

Executed functional testing across web and mobile platforms for an enterprise IT service management product. Created and maintained QA documentation and ran Postman/Swagger API test suites, tracking defects to resolution and validating data integrity with SQL.

Functional Testing API Testing Postman Swagger MySQL SQLite Jenkins

QA Lead

Expert Communication Systems GmbH

Sep 2019 - Feb 2022 (2 years 5 months)

Led and mentored a QA team, including interviews, onboarding, and daily workload management. Designed regression and smoke test plans in XRAY (Jira) and architected an end-to-end automation framework using Selenium, Cucumber, and Java while aligning quality standards with product and development teams.

Xray Regression Testing Smoke Testing Selenium Cucumber Java Automation Framework Swagger

QA Tester

Expert Communication Systems GmbH

Dec 2018 - Aug 2019 (8 months)

Performed manual and exploratory testing on web and mobile applications and produced fully reproducible defect reports. Executed automated test suites and reported results to the QA Lead with complete test documentation.

Exploratory testing Manual Testing Test Case Documentation Web Testing Mobile Testing Test Automation Quality Reporting

Developer (XSL/XSLT)

Expert Communication Systems GmbH

Sep 2017 - Dec 2018 (1 year 3 months)

Developed and maintained XSL/XSLT transformation templates for official document processing systems. Supported reliable document transformations by building and updating template logic.

XSLT Template Development Data Mapping Document Processing