MGMauro Pedano

// Test Automation Architect · QA Technical Lead

I help teams ship software their customers can trust.

I'm Mauro, an SDET with 10+ years in software quality. I build automation and performance testing frameworks, define quality strategies, and help teams understand and improve their products.

Udine, ItalySpanish · English C2 · Italian A2ISTQB CTFL certified
Mauro Pedano smiling on a snowy mountain summit at sunrise, wearing a climbing helmet

// why quality

You don't need more tests.
You need releases you can trust.

Fewer incidents, happier customers, faster releases. Here's what quality looks like for your business.

01

Release without fear

Shipping becomes routine, not a gamble. Every deploy is checked automatically, so a bad change is stopped before it reaches your customers.

how: CI/CD pipelines · end-to-end automation

02

Catch it before your customers do

A bug found in testing costs minutes. The same bug found by a customer costs support time, refunds and trust.

how: risk-based strategy · API & UI tests

03

Ready for your busiest day

Launches, campaigns and growth shouldn't take your app down. You'll know how much traffic it can handle before your users find out the hard way.

how: k6 · Locust · JMeter load tests

04

Know where you stand

Plain-language reports show what works, what's broken and what's at risk, so stakeholders can decide without reading code, or error logs.

how: Gherkin scenarios · readable reports

bonus I mentor teams to achieve these quality standards on their own.

// experience

11 years, 7 teams

From manual and automated testing to leading quality for whole companies.

  1. Head of Quality

    Datumsure · doTERRA & Tapestry

    Dec 2023 – Oct 2026

    Sole QA for the company: quality strategy, automation and performance testing for a client wellness platform and an in-house AI data-analysis product.

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    Served as the company's sole QA professional, first on doTERRA and then owning quality for Tapestry after the client project ended.

    • Promoted shared quality practices through recurring reviews with Tapestry team representatives before joining the product.

    doTERRA - Client project

    NestJS and Next.js wellness platform using connected health data to inform recommendations for products, healthy habits, and exercise.

    • Coordinated the development team, acted as the client liaison, and translated requirements into functional tasks within technical constraints.
    • Built a Playwright end-to-end test automation framework and integrated it into GitLab CI/CD to run after deployments to lower environments.
    • Built a configurable k6 framework measuring request latency, payload metrics, and p50, p90, and p99 percentiles, extending an existing JMeter process assessed through database-record counts.
    • Owned manual production deployments over SSH to the client's on-premises servers, coordinating release tasks with other teams.

    Tapestry - Internal product

    Datumsure platform integrating databases from multiple sources and providing users with AI-powered data analysis.

    • Defined the quality strategy and negotiated feature scope with the product lead.
    • Built a BehaveX and Python automation framework, expanding validation beyond sprint demos of feature happy paths to less common scenarios.
    • Introduced Gherkin so managers could understand test coverage and interpret passing and failing results.
    • Co-designed a system with DevOps to deploy test environments, execute tests, and expose service status, basic metrics, and logs without requiring access to the AWS console.
    • Containerized testing frameworks, persisted reports in volumes, and removed runners after execution to optimize resource usage.
    • Built a Locust performance testing framework to assess how new features affected application performance.
    • Validated client-data access policies and helped define improvements to policy storage and enforcement, including redaction of restricted data before exposure to a large language model (LLM).
  2. Automation Architect

    Incluit · iDocket UCMS

    Jun 2022 – Nov 2023

    Built a Cypress and Cucumber framework running in Jenkins, and introduced k6 performance testing that found several critical defects.

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    • Built a Cypress and Cucumber framework, selected scenarios for automation, and integrated execution into Jenkins after deployments.
    • Containerized test execution with Docker for consistent local environments.
    • Mentored automation engineers and manual QA staff in functional programming and maintainable automation practices.
    • Introduced performance testing with k6 and identified several critical performance defects.
    • Designed continuous and visual testing solutions and used Cypress to capture workflows for k6 scripts.
  3. QA Manager / SDET

    Wazuh · Kibana App

    Apr 2021 – Jun 2022

    Managed QA planning and defect tracking while staying hands-on, and set up the Cypress automation repository.

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    • Managed QA planning and defect tracking while remaining hands-on with functional and automated testing.
    • Established a Cypress automation repository and maintained local Docker test environments.
  4. SDET

    PinApp · Farmacias Peruanas

    Mar 2020 – Apr 2021

    Automated tests with Java, Serenity and Selenium WebDriver; API testing with Postman and JMeter.

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    • Automated test cases using Java, Serenity, Selenium WebDriver, and SQL.
    • Performed functional frontend testing and API testing with Postman and JMeter.
  5. SDET

    McAfee · Application Control & EDR

    Aug 2018 – Mar 2020

    Automated testing for security products, cross-platform integration testing, and mentoring an intern into a full-time SDET.

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    • Developed and maintained automated tests using Java, TestNG, Selenium WebDriver, and SQL for Application Control and EDR.
    • Tested cross-platform integrations and manual scenarios against acceptance criteria.
    • Trained developers and QA staff in automation and mentored an intern through their progression to a full-time SDET role.
  6. Test Automation Engineer

    eSolutions · Claro WDC & Aloha

    Nov 2016 – Aug 2018

    Functional and cross-platform integration testing, automated with Robot Framework and Python.

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    • Performed functional and cross-platform integration testing and automated scenarios using Robot Framework, Python, Selenium WebDriver, and SQL.
  7. Test Automation Engineer

    Globant · Southwest Airlines MVision

    May 2015 – Nov 2016

    Functional and integration testing, automated with Java, JBehave, Mountebank and REST Assured.

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    • Performed functional and cross-platform integration testing and automated scenarios using Java, JBehave, Selenium WebDriver, Mountebank, and REST Assured.

// toolbox

Skills & stack

Highlighted = daily drivers

Test automation

  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • Selenium
  • BehaveX
  • Appium
  • Cucumber
  • Robot Framework
  • TestNG
  • JUnit
  • JBehave
  • ResembleJS

Performance

  • k6
  • Locust
  • JMeter

Languages

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Java
  • Python
  • SQL
  • HTML
  • CSS

CI/CD & infrastructure

  • Docker
  • Git
  • Docker Compose
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI
  • Maven
  • Gradle
  • Node.js

APIs & data

  • REST Assured
  • Postman
  • Mountebank
  • MySQL
  • SQL Server
  • Oracle
  • MongoDB

Practices & leadership

  • Quality strategy
  • Automation architecture
  • BDD
  • TDD
  • API testing
  • Visual testing
  • Data access policy testing
  • Mentoring
  • Technical leadership

// side projects

Built for fun, tested for real

Projects built around my interests, from civic information to game development and tabletop RPGs.

¿Quién Gobierna? logo

● live

¿Quién Gobierna?

Collaborative platform for exploring the political history of Argentina's public officials, with cited sources and moderated contributions.

Next.js · TypeScript · Express · Prisma

Twenty-sided die

● live

Roll Initiative

Shared initiative tracker for tabletop RPGs: the game master runs combat, players follow along, synced in real time.

React · Firebase Firestore · Material UI

ProjectFire campfire illustration

● in development

ProjectFire

3D fire-building simulator: arrange tinder, wood and stones, driven by a thermal model of heat, moisture and fuel.

Godot 4 · GDScript · 3D physics

Forest and mountain illustration

● in development

ProjectBushcraft

Woodland exploration and bushcraft game with documented systems for crafting, inventory, player needs and progression.

Systems design · Godot 4

Credentials & beyond work

certification

ISTQB Certified Tester, Foundation Level

May 2019

education

Information Systems Engineering coursework

Universidad Tecnológica Nacional · from 2014

languages

Spanish · English · Italian

Native · C2 · A2

off duty

Adventurer at heart

Martial arts, mountain trails, and exploring Europe with my wife and our dachshund, Freya.

// contact

Let's make quality a habit on your team.

If you need someone who connects quality strategy with hands-on engineering, write me a line. I'll get back to you.