Luca Ahumada
Quality Enablement Engineer
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Mendoza, Argentina / Remote (US hours)
Summary
Quality Enablement Engineer with 10+ years building the test platforms, CI/CD quality gates, and observability practices that let engineering teams ship quickly and safely. I focus on making quality the path of least resistance — reducing flaky tests, shortening feedback loops, and embedding testing literacy across teams rather than acting as a gatekeeper.
Experience
Senior Quality Enablement Engineer, Caribou Financial Inc
2024 — Present
- Own the Playwright automation strategy and CI/CD quality gates for a US fintech platform — 80%+ E2E coverage with sub-12-minute pipeline feedback.
- Enabled 5 product teams to own quality through DORA metrics, shift-left practices, and observability tooling.
- Build AI agents, plugins, and skills that scaffold tests and triage failures.
- Coach engineers and mentor QAs to treat quality as a shared responsibility.
Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET), SafeGuard Privacy
2022 — 2024
- Migrated the end-to-end suite from Cypress to Playwright (300+ tests) and built unit testing from scratch.
- Cut regression cycles from ~2 days to ~2 hours while holding flake under 1%, with CI/CD and observability built from the ground up.
- Led security testing for the platform's AI features.
Software Developer Engineer in Test (SDET), Globant
2021 — 2022
- Built 3 Cypress automation frameworks from scratch across 4 enterprise client teams, reaching 75%+ coverage.
- Set up CI/CD pipelines and coached client teams on quality and unit-testing practices.
Senior QA Specialist, LabsXD
2020 — 2021
- Tech lead — built a Selenium automation framework from scratch, automating ~90% of manual testing across 8 client projects.
- Implemented CI/CD to sustain 5+ releases per week and coached the team on quality enablement.
Senior Test Automation Engineer, TutenLabs
2018 — 2020
- Tech lead — migrated manual Katalon E2E to a Selenium suite (100+ tests) built from scratch, cutting regression time ~80%.
- Shipped the team's first CI quality gates and ran coaching and training sessions.
Skills
AutomationPlaywright, Cypress, rspec, capybara, Postman, Xray
LanguagesTypeScript, JavaScript
CI/CD & CloudGitHub, Jenkins, Harness, AWS, Azure
Perf & Obs.k6, Lighthouse, Grafana, OpenTelemetry
PlatformDocker, Kubernetes
CollaborationJira, Asana, Figma
PracticeShift-left, risk-based QA, error budgets, coaching
Education
B.A. Business Administration, National University of Cabildo
2009 — 2014
Certifications
API Fundamentals Expert, Postman Academy
Certified Quality Assurance Tester, National University of Córdoba
Languages
Spanish — Native · English — C1 (professional & conversational)