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Lotfi Hocini

Senior Data Scientist | Agentic AI Specialist | QA

€500/day
Nantes, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Lotfi

  • Senior Data Scientist with over 10 years of experience in AI, data science, and software engineering. Expert in Agentic AI, Python development, Machine Learning, microservices, computer vision, and advanced statistics. Proficient in DevOps/MLOps environments, ensuring the industrialization of AI models and automation of data pipelines.
  • I also have solid expertise in QA (functional, CI/CD, automation of front-end, back-end, performance, and mobile tests) and have successfully integrated over twenty QA automation engineers into major corporations.
  • A technical and pedagogical leader, I coach teams and share my knowledge within companies, as well as regularly lecturing at engineering schools.
  • If you are looking for a versatile professional, determined to tackle the most complex challenges and stay at the forefront of technology, I would be delighted to collaborate with you. Do not hesitate to contact me to discuss how I can contribute to your project or organization.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Can work on-site
Nantes (up to 50km), Rennes (up to 50km), Brest (up to 50km), Lorient (up to 10km), Paris (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Oberthur fiduciaire
    Agentic AI Developer | QA Automation Lead
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    December 2025 - Today (8 months)
    Rennes, France
    Context: Development of AI agents and their integration into the development cycle / Implementation of an automated testing platform integrating AI and leading a QA team in an Azure DevOps On-Prem environment
    • Analysis and diagnosis of QA, Dev, tools, and delivery cycle practices.
    • Prospecting for test automation opportunities and AI agent integration.
    • Participation in various Agile-Scrum ceremonies.
    • Definition of QA strategy: test plans, functional and non-functional coverage, TTR, campaign piloting, tools, timing, quality metrics, and AI integration in the loop.
    • Architecture and deployment of automated test pipelines on Azure DevOps.
    • Development of MCP Server to interact with databases, Azure DevOps Work Items, browsers, and various tools.
    • Configuration of different environments.
    • Development of specialized AI agents capable of using toolsets exposed by MCP Servers.
    • Development of orchestration agents to facilitate interaction.
    • Integration of different Agents on VSCode for offline use and performance improvement.
    • Development and Integration of Agentic RAG to facilitate and guide the generation of plans and tests.
    • Support and coaching of testers on functional organization and autonomy in test automation and the use of different agents and tools.
    • Collaboration with Dev/Ops for the production deployment of AI agents.
    • Cross-functional collaboration with Dev and Ops teams to align quality practices with technical and business strategy.
    • Leading presentation sessions in the presence of CIOs to guide strategic decisions on the use of AI agents and projection into other domains.
    • Writing technical and strategic documentation.
    Azure DevOps LLM AI Agent Langchain MCP
  • logwire-consulting
    QA Automation Engineer | Trainer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    January 2024 - September 2025 (1 year and 8 months)
    Asnières-sur-Seine, France
    • Recruitment and setup of testing teams to expand the ESN's business.
    • Training consultants on QA, test automation, and DevOps.
    • Coaching on the tester profession, Agile methodology, development cycles, and interview preparation.
    • Writing and maintaining test cases in classic and Gherkin formats: Excel, Xray, Squash-tm, Jira, Confluence, Trello.
    • Querying databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and automating test data preparation in Python.
    • Front-end and Mobile Testing: Selenium (java, maven, cucumber, junit5), Cypress (JS), Playwright (TS), Robot-Framework (Python) adopting the Page Object Model design pattern, Appium.
    • API Testing: Postman (JS), newman, Bruno, Karate, request (robot-framework).
    • Load and Performance Testing: JMeter, K6-grafana.
    • Implementation of test pipelines and their integration into CI/CD: Git, Github, Gitlab, Gitlab-ci, Jenkins, Docker, Python, Groovy, YAML. Linux Bash.
    • Strategy and Test Plans, acceptance testing, bug reporting, daily and flash reporting.
    • Test organization and creation of batches for targeted or grouped execution.
    • Strategy for automatic triggering of test campaigns.
    Selenium Playwright Postman Functional testing QA testing
  • Leader dans l'industrie de Luxe
    Data Scientist
    LUXURY GOODS
    February 2023 - April 2024 (1 year and 2 months)
    Île-de-France, France
    **Context**: Elastic Ads: Tools for optimizing advertising campaigns
    • Collaboration with marketing, creative, and IT teams for refining and formalizing needs.
    • Collaborate with marketing teams to define business rules for content to be kept or deleted.
    • Implement intelligent slicing algorithms to retain key parts of videos while respecting target durations.
    • Design and implementation of an image annotation tool in collaboration with developers to generate training datasets.
    • Data augmentation.
    • Collaborate with creative teams to select and annotate relevant visual assets.
    • Supervise the quality and consistency of annotations to train high-performance models.
    • Develop computer vision models for object detection and classification in advertising videos.
    • Scene understanding and video trimming.
    • Integration of processing pipelines for automatic and personalized content generation within existing workflows.
    • Writing technical documentation and user manuals for various tools.
    • Participation in best practice sharing meetings with Data & AI teams.
    Computer Vision TensorFlow FastAPI Deep Learning Python

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Education

  • Magister, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou
    2012
    Magister, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
  • Engineer's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering
    Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou
    2009
    Engineer's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

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