Nahuel Leonardo Elias Gomez

Senior QA Automation Engineer • SDET II • AI-Enhanced Quality Engineering

📍 Córdoba, Argentina📞 +54 351 380-8759✉️ gomeznahuel.le@gmail.com💼 linkedin.com/in/nelgoez 🐙 github.com/nelgoez 🌐 nelthor.com.ar

Professional Summary

Senior QA Automation Engineer with 6 years in IT and 5+ years specializing in QA and test automation for SaaS platforms. Specialized in Playwright, TypeScript, Python, Cucumber, and Robot Framework with a strong track record of modernizing legacy suites, integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines, and driving shift-left quality culture. Recently focused on AI/LLM quality engineering — building agentic testing frameworks with KATA architecture, designing CI/CD quality gates with autonomous workflows, and combining traditional automation with AI-assisted test generation. Fluent in English with extensive experience in distributed engineering teams.

Core Competencies

Test Automation

Playwright, Cucumber (over WebdriverIO), Robot Framework, Selenium WebDriver, WebdriverIO, Cypress, Protractor

Languages

TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Node.js, SQL

API Testing

REST APIs, Microservices, Middleware validation, Postman, Automated API suites

CI/CD & Automation

Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket — pipeline design, maintenance, quality gates

Infrastructure & Containers

Docker, Kubernetes (basic), AWS (familiar), sandbox environments

Monitoring & Observability

Kibana, Grafana, Allure Framework — dashboards, logging, runtime tracking

Data & Databases

SQL / MySQL / NoSQL validation, DBeaver, DBHub MCP

AI & Developer Tooling

Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor — AI-assisted testing, code review

Methodologies

Shift-Left Testing, KATA Architecture, Agile/Scrum, Test Plan Design, Risk-Based Testing

Professional Experience

Newfold Digital

Córdoba, Argentina

Aug 2021 – Jan 2026 • 4 yrs 6 mos

Software Development Engineer in Test II (SDET II) — Mar 2022 – Jan 2026

▸QA'd consumer-facing products at scale — NetworkSolutions.com, Bluehost.com — serving millions of users across hosting and small business platforms.
▸Refactored the legacy Cucumber (over WebdriverIO) suite on my own initiative — regression from 3.5–6 h to ~1:45–2 h (~60%) while trimming ~600–630 → ~430–440 cases.
▸Re-platformed the suite to Robot Framework + Python (~430 cases), shifting UI coverage to faster API/DB (headless) tests — runs under 1:30 h with equal coverage and higher precision.
▸Validated schemas, statuses, data structures and interaction results across SQL, MySQL and NoSQL during the migration from physical servers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) — via DBeaver, direct DB connections and APIs (mostly manual; a few promoted to regression).
▸Designed test strategies across multiple product lines — functional, API, cross-browser, regression.
▸Embedded suites into CI/CD (Jenkins over Bitbucket) with Jira + Zephyr test management, and mentored peers on clean-code automation.

Software Development Engineer — Aug 2021 – Feb 2022

▸Led the initial migration of the legacy 600+ case suite from Protractor/JS to Cucumber (over WebdriverIO).
▸Collaborated with DevOps and Dev teams to integrate testing earlier in the SDLC, reducing defects reaching production.
▸Built the foundation for the framework later re-platformed to Robot Framework + Python.

UPEX Galaxy

Remote, Argentina

Jan 2026 – Present

Agentic QA Engineer (DOJO Program)

▸Built the Agentic QA Boilerplate — an open-source QA framework (KATA architecture, Playwright + TypeScript) shipped with a create-agentic-qa scaffolder, 20+ agent skills, a full Xray CLI, and 7 MCP integrations.
▸Orchestrated the Stage 0→6 QA lifecycle across agent skills: shift-left testing, sprint testing, test documentation, test automation, and regression GO/NO-GO.
▸QA'd UPEX's diploma tracking platform (production-bound) — E2E Playwright suites, API testing (45+ endpoints), accessibility (axe-core), and multi-role authorization.
▸Designed CI/CD quality gates across GitHub Actions workflows — Allure dashboards auto-deployed to GitHub Pages on every run.
▸Implemented Jira/Xray test traceability with @atc decorators and a 13-command Xray CLI for automated test case synchronization.
▸Evaluated through UPEX's Agentic QA DOJO — peer-reviewed test architecture and CI/CD design on production-grade products.

Coderhouse

Argentina

Jul 2021 – Feb 2022 • 8 mos

Tutor — Backend Development (MERN Stack)

Delivered instruction and hands-on mentoring for Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and React coursework.

Henry Bootcamp

Argentina (Academic)

Full Stack Web Developer — Apr 2021 – Jun 2021

▸Built a healthcare management system with React, Redux, Node.js, Supabase, Firebase — serving patients, doctors, and admin staff with role-based access and Material UI.
▸Developed a single-page weather app consuming a global climate API — first end-to-end frontend project in React.