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Franco Gallardo

Franco Gallardo

QA Engineer
Buenos Aires

Summary

Cautious Quality Engineer thoroughly predicts and eliminates any unnecessary risks during project planning and production phases. Meticulously investigates and tracks defects' root causes. Dogged eliminator of faults and liabilities resulting in negative financial impacts.

Driven Team Lead with great knowledge of process change documentation and root cause analysis. Ambitious and driven individual with extensive training in SAP, Postman, Devtools and Bank/Fintech protocols. Dedicated to best-in-class work.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
4034
4034
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Sr QA Engineer

Softtek
09.2022 - Current
  • Working remotely for a USA project
  • Mentored junior QA engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
  • Collaborated closely with developers to identify, reproduce, and resolve software bugs.
  • Supported successful product launches by coordinating end-to-end testing efforts from planning through execution phases.
  • Improved product quality by meticulously designing and executing test plans for software applications.
  • A little of automation with Jenkins and Cucumber
  • Handled and troubleshot database environments, identifying gaps and problem areas.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and bug fixes.
  • Improved software quality by executing thorough test plans and identifying defects before release.

Product Owner

Superdigital Fintech
09.2022 - 02.2023
  • Assembly of requirements, assembly of User stories, maintenance of the backlog, prioritization of tasks, work with the scrum master to implement improvements in the Scrum process
  • Managed backlog prioritization, ensuring alignment with business goals and stakeholder expectations.
  • Implemented Agile methodologies to increase team productivity and enhance overall project outcomes.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop high-quality products that met customer needs.

Functional Analyst

Ualá Fintech
10.2021 - 09.2022
  • Analysis of documents from external entities to create rest APIS and integrate the virtual wallet with the banking core
  • Management of Postman, Oracle SQL, JIRA, Github
  • Demonstrated exceptional problem-solving skills, quickly resolving technical issues while minimizing downtime and maintaining a high level of customer service.

Senior QA Analyst

Galicia Bank
7 2019 - 10.2021
  • Mentored junior QA engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.
  • Design and creation of Test Cases
  • Estimation of tasks
  • Management of activities with Trello
  • Register Test Cases and defects in HP ALM
  • Verify in Payment Engine SAP module the operations carried out from the different platforms of the bank (Home Banking Individuals, Companies, Mobile , ATMs, clearinghouses)
  • Design and execution of Test Cases in Solman
  • Use of SoapUI for service tests
  • Use of Control M
  • Training for new colleagues in SAP Banking Services and Payment Engine

Semisenior QA Analyst

Cencosud Argentina
09.2018 - 08.2019
  • Design and execution of Coverage Matrices for a national project for implementation in different agencies of the Group.
  • SAP functional tests of several Responsive Applications FIORI (Hana 4) Web and Mobile versions
  • Tests in SD and MM SAP modules
  • Design and execution of Test Cases in Solman
  • Automation of Test Cases using CBTA
  • Training for end users
  • Creation of user manuals
  • Management of activities using Jira

Jr QA ANALYST

Techint Tenaris
03.2018 - 09.2018
  • Testing over an application for the commercial team in Canada and the United States
  • Web and mobile versions

Jr QA ANALYST

Supervielle Bank
07.2017 - 03.2018
  • Quality assurance and process improvement
  • Assistance for External and Internal audits
  • Evaluation of services through Jmeter
  • Query in SQL database
  • Execution of test cases in Bantotal
  • Manual testing of Web Services with SOAP UI
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and bug fixes.
  • Improved software quality by executing thorough test plans and identifying defects before release.

Education

Bachelor's Degree - Public and International Relations

UADE

Software Testing - undefined

Centro Universitario Vicente López

Java Programming -

Programa Codo A Codo

Automation with Selenium - undefined

Educación IT

Scrum Master - undefined

International Scrum Institute

Executive Program - Fintech & Digital Banking

UCA

Skills

Integration testing

Functional testing

Regression testing

Stress/performance testing

Exploratory testing

Web and mobile testing

Unit testing (Postman)

Basic SQL queries (Oracle)

Cross-browser testing

Defect tracking

Bug reporting

Test case creation

Continuous integration

Root cause identification

Engineering support

Automation scripting

New feature testing

Timeline

Sr QA Engineer

Softtek
09.2022 - Current

Product Owner

Superdigital Fintech
09.2022 - 02.2023

Functional Analyst

Ualá Fintech
10.2021 - 09.2022

Semisenior QA Analyst

Cencosud Argentina
09.2018 - 08.2019

Jr QA ANALYST

Techint Tenaris
03.2018 - 09.2018

Jr QA ANALYST

Supervielle Bank
07.2017 - 03.2018

Software Testing - undefined

Centro Universitario Vicente López

Automation with Selenium - undefined

Educación IT

Scrum Master - undefined

International Scrum Institute

Executive Program - Fintech & Digital Banking

UCA

Senior QA Analyst

Galicia Bank
7 2019 - 10.2021

Bachelor's Degree - Public and International Relations

UADE

Java Programming -

Programa Codo A Codo
Franco GallardoQA Engineer