About Adrian
STEM educated with an extensive software Quality Assurance consultancy background, I effectively fulfilled a diverse range of roles, from backend Test Automation to E2E Test Management & leadership. Primarily in Financial Services - fintech/trading, with an automation-first mentality, supplemented with robust exploratory testing, I coach and motivate Testing Teams to deliver results they can be proud of.
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Madrid (up to 50km)
Experience
- Avail AISENIOR QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEERJune 2024 - Today (2 years)London, UKAvail are an AI start-up implementing solutions for the Legal sector. Key Responsibilities and Achievements:• Establish QA process and offer guidance to the Development team around quality improvement from unit tests to E2E• In charge of LLM manual testing and backend automation with Python• Code review the developer-written Python unit tests• Coordinate supplier E2E testing and ensure adequate coverage for the Playwright – Typescript suite of tests• Collaborate with Product, Sales, Customer Success teams to align QA goals with business priorities Tech stack: Python, Typescript, SQL, REST APIs, Git, BitBucket, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes.
- Blocktest LtdTEST AUTOMATION CONSULTANTDecember 2021 - June 2024 (2 years and 6 months)United KingdomServices ranging from building bespoke backend/frontend Test Automation frameworks to AI LLM model response evaluation, and Test Management consultancy in the Financial sector, including DeFi/blockchain technology. Offering guidance and best practice around Test Strategy and Planning based on the client's context, with an Automation-first approach, supplemented with robust exploratory testing.
- TP ICAPSENIOR TEST AUTOMATION CONSULTANTJune 2022 - December 2023 (1 year and 6 months)London, UKAnti-Money Laundering Compliance (AML) monitoring and other financial market abuse in the Trade Surveillance space, across asset classes. Products include Equities, Fixed Income – Government & Corporate Bonds, ETFs, FX, Commodities, Digital Assets. Key Responsibilities and Achievements:• Define the test approach and own the end-to-end testing for AML trade surveillance• Built synthetic data pipelines for market abuse simulations, reducing testing cycles from months to weeks• Built automated quality monitoring for reference data sources (Refinitiv, Bloomberg), with a direct impact on reducing the number of Production incidents• Coordinate and conduct load and performance testing efforts• Coach and mentor QA team on automation best practice Tech stack: Python, SQL, REST APIs, JUnit, pytest, Pandas, json, FIX, XML, Git, GitLab
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Education
- University of Economic Studies2008
- Bachelor of Sciencethe Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic InformaticsBachelor of Science
Certifications
- Advanced Test ManagerISTQB2016
- Certified Scrum MasterScrumAlliance CSM2017