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Aitor Arce Cue

Aitor Arce Cue

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Summary

Accomplished QA tester/engineer, offering over 25 years of experience working as QA and developer with the most appropiate technologies to each problem, always focused in giving business value at the lower cost. Endless learning mentality. I’m used to lead and motivate co-workers, practising Agile procedures and always finding improvements in the diary work, passionate of security with proven expertise in different technologies and business domains, as security, industry, marketing and biosciences. Adept at working effectively to achieve goals both as a team member and individual contributor.

Overview

26
26
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. QA

Hubbell Inc
01.2022 - Current
  • Currently working at Hubbell Inc
  • Inside Hubbell Utility Solutions area in charge of the electricity and smart meters, advance metering infrastructure and smart meters grid monitoring system, my role as Sr
  • QA in a 5 members development team following Kanban methodology, consists the planification and execution of manual and automated functional test to ensure the acceptance criteria matching of each feature and user story developed including Test Plan creation, automated TC with our Ruby automation framework, reporting of the failed TC and creation of bugs and incidences, managing of customer support request etc
  • Also for each Release I’m involved in the performance test done in specialized environments with different tools proprietary and otehrs open source tools like JMeter
  • In charge as well of the maintaining of the QA VM infrastructure in Azure and deployments, managing and creating Azure releases etc
  • The solution I’m currently working on is called a Head End or Field Network Gateway that retrieves all the reads and measures from the different devices (big amount of data) Hubbell offers to electric utilities (gas an water too) involving different technologies we use at our solution, the main component are developed with .net and SQL server DBs to persist data, but others technologies involved like docker, kafka, ELK stack etc

QA & DevOps

Virtualware
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Company Overview: A company dedicated to VR
  • During my time at Virtualware, a company dedicated to VR, I worked on the VIROO project, a solution developed using .NET Core and Unity (VR immersive rooms and VR space sharing with standalone devices)
  • My role primarily focusing on performing QA tasks, including defining test plans and test cases, executing tests, reporting and categorizing bugs, and automating non-VR tests
  • Additionally, creating the necessary infrastructure for deploying our dockerized VR solution on any cloud provider (VM and/or container orchestrator such as AKS, EKS, etc.)
  • I also handled on-premises deployments based on specific client needs
  • A company dedicated to VR

QL & QA

BETWEEN(Inditex)
01.2020 - 01.2021
  • During this period, I worked as a QL/QA
  • Among the tasks as a QA integrated into one of the development teams in the customer service area, specifically in returns, my QA tasks included writing acceptance criteria (Gherkin) for different user stories in collaboration with the Product Owner
  • I also conducted manual testing using tools like Postman/Swagger, created test plans and cases, and performed automated testing for various APIs and microservices (Java/Openshift) using Cucumber/JUnit and Karate framework
  • Additionally, I created performance baselines for the APIs using JMeter and logged bugs in JIRA
  • As a QL, my responsibilities included monitoring and supervising internal security audits (SNYK) and quality audits (coverage of unit/integration/E2E tests) for all teams in the customer service area
  • I also created remediation plans and reported to the Chief Quality Architect and the internal audit department at Inditex

QA ENGINEER/BIGDATA DEVELOPER

VEINTERACTIVE LTD
Bilbao
01.2014 - 01.2020
  • Company Overview: A UK based company
  • Serving as QA engineer/BigData developer and on a UK based company (Headquarters) of one of the 6 development teams at Ve-Global, Bilbao development hub in charge of 3 BigData projects:
  • VeBot project: Crawling bot focused in retrieving data from eCommerce globally scalable and high available, 3 main technologies used client-server structure for the Downloaders (.Net, WCF, Redis) and Parser side done with Apache Storm topology
  • Also a Web UI for configuration and performance purposes was developed, all BDD tested with Selenium WebDriver
  • Products services project: Hbase over Hadoop cluster to store all the products from our clients along with their relationships and events related to data consumption
  • Recommendation engine: Product recommendation system based on most viewed, most purchased, related products, cookie/user preferences, etc
  • Based on Elasticsearch, a set of REST APIs, and ML Spark processes running in background querying our data storages
  • API layer for Product service consumption: API REST containerized with docker to consume data from the Product service (Java, Spring framework)
  • My main role was to ensure quality deliverables in 2 weeks sprint, my work involves creation of test plans, execution, early bug detection, functional and performance test and test automation with Cucumber an Selenium and Selenium Grid
  • Used technologies: Ruby, Selenium, Cucumber, Headless browser Java 8, Apache Hbase, Apache Storm, Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Hadoop, Ambari, MapReduce, Apache nifi, .Net, Spring framework, Puppet with Ruby, Azure Cloud, ARM templates, Docker, Messos, Marathon
  • A UK based company

CQA

AVANGROUP S.L
01.2008 - 01.2014
  • Served 3 years as CQA (Chief Quality Assurance) managing 3 outsourced development teams with 7 members based in India (HCL technologies) CQA
  • The main responsibilities were User Stories and acceptance criteria tests definition for 3 main projects for Gamesa
  • 3 more years working as Software Quality Assurance (QA) in the same projects:
  • DBVar: Wind Turbine DB software used by electrical and mechanical engineers to design, simulate and parametrize a Wind turbine (SQL backend, .net desktop application Frontend)
  • SPCM: Remote configuration solution for the different components of a WindTurbine
  • SPDM: Software for predictive diagnosis based on the vibrations and different data retrieved by the Wind Turbine sensors
  • Expertise in Software quality plan definition, metrics, test reports etc
  • Used technologies and tools: SQL Server 2012, .Net (framework 4.5), MKS Source Integrity (CVS, Doors (documentation software), Visual Studio 2012, TestComplete (Automation tool from SmartBear software), Other tools (network traffic analysers etc)

DEVELOPER

NorayBio S.L
01.2007 - 01.2008
  • In this period, I was working mainly in 2 project:
  • Histomass: software that facilitates the analysis of the results of mass spectrometry (MALDI/TOF) experiments carried out on tissue
  • Letting us know the proteomic concentration over a tissue picture in both 2D and 3D
  • VB.Net Windows forms project
  • With MySQL as primary storage
  • I+D+I software development for Abengoa in i+dea European project focused in helping researchers to find more efficient enzymes for Bioethanol synthesis
  • VB.NET project querying web services and storing genetic codons in MySQl for further investigation algorythms

QA DEVELOPER

PANDA SECURITY S.L
01.1999 - 01.2007
  • Quality Assurance and software developer
  • 7 Years working as QA developer and malware researcher for the awarded Truprevent technologies, studying malware behaviour, disassembling it, and defining and creating sandboxes to research malware behaviour in order to find the better countermeasures, in this years I acquired a deep knowledge of the Win32 API, C/C++ and API hooking techniques
  • The biggest achieve of this stage was detecting above of the 80% of the malware specimens prior entering in company analysis division (Pandalabs) by process behaviour analysis and Bayesian statistic techniques

Education

AUTODIDACT -

UNED INGENIERIA DE SISTEMAS
01.1999

Skills

  • Team leadership
  • Test plan creation
  • Test automation
  • Bug reporting
  • Performance testing
  • Azure management
  • API testing
  • Containerization
  • Agile methodology
  • SQL programming
  • Attention to detail
  • Effective communication
  • Problem solving
  • Interpersonal communication
  • Continue delivery
  • DevOps mentality
  • Agile/Scrum/Kanban
  • BigData technologies
  • Customer & Staff Relations
  • Research & Analysis
  • Project Management
  • Process improvements
  • Competitive Intelligence
  • Product Education
  • Net Framework/Net
  • MS Visual Studio/InteliJ Idea
  • Redis
  • Microsoft Azure/GIT/TFS
  • Gradle/Maven/Ant
  • Octopus Deploy /TeamCity/Github Actions
  • ARM/puppet/chef
  • Visual Studio Online
  • ASPNET MVC
  • Friendly, positive attitude
  • Active listening
  • Analytical thinking

Community Service

Bilbao CoderDojo, Currently I'm teaching for free kids between 9 to 14 years old, Scratch (game development) to not only being technology consumers but technology creators. at VeBilbao coderdojo (biweekly activity)

Technological Environment

  • Ruby
  • Python
  • C#
  • Java
  • C/C++
  • Apache Kafka
  • Apache Storm
  • Apache HBase
  • .Net Framework/.Net
  • MS Visual Studio/IntelliJ Idea
  • Redis
  • Microsoft Azure/GIT/TFS
  • Gradle/Maven/Ant
  • Octopus Deploy/TeamCity/Github Actions
  • ARM/puppet/chef
  • Visual Studio Online
  • ASP.NET MVC

Timeline

Sr. QA

Hubbell Inc
01.2022 - Current

QA & DevOps

Virtualware
01.2021 - 01.2022

QL & QA

BETWEEN(Inditex)
01.2020 - 01.2021

QA ENGINEER/BIGDATA DEVELOPER

VEINTERACTIVE LTD
01.2014 - 01.2020

CQA

AVANGROUP S.L
01.2008 - 01.2014

DEVELOPER

NorayBio S.L
01.2007 - 01.2008

QA DEVELOPER

PANDA SECURITY S.L
01.1999 - 01.2007

AUTODIDACT -

UNED INGENIERIA DE SISTEMAS

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