🚀 Experienced QA Manager and technologist with over 15 years across software engineering, quality leadership and test automation.
I combine deep technical expertise with a strong product mindset, using Agile, DevOps and telemetry-driven approaches to accelerate delivery while improving confidence in releases.

Currently managing a distributed QA team at TUI/Musement, I focus on automated testing strategies for cloud-native platforms using Python (pytest, hypothesis, schemathesis), GitLab CI/CD, Docker and AWS. I drive early testing adoption, scalable automation and production-driven insights through observability tools like Datadog and New Relic.

Key achievements include building reusable Python libraries, preventing critical regressions through advanced API validation and aligning test priorities with business risk. My leadership style emphasizes enablement, transparency, and developer experience, empowering teams.

Co-organiser of the Continuous Testing Meetup and Ministry of Testing Milan.

👨🏻‍💻 Connect with me

• LinkedIn
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Technical articles on Medium

• ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level
• Certified Kanban Management Professional (KMP1)
• Certified Kanban Management Professional (KMP2)

• 🧪 Co-organizer of Ministry of Testing Milan
• 🔁 Co-organizer of Continuous Testing Meetup
• 📇 My Ministry of Testing profile
• 🌌 Bluesky
• 🐦 Twitter

Engineering & architecture

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software – Erich Gamma, Richard Helm (Gang of Four)
• Clean Code - Robert C. Martin
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code – Martin Fowler
• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps – Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Leadership & management

• Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager – James Stanier
• The Manager's Path – Camille Fournier
• Leading Quality – Ronald Cummings-John, Owais Peer
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team – Patrick Lencioni
• The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business – Erin Meyer
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – James Clear

These projects are learning-driven experiments, exploring automation, CI/CD orchestration, performance testing, and DevSecOps practices in realistic setups.

• Kubernetes Orchestrator
  Experimenting with ephemeral environments in Kubernetes + Docker, integrated with CI/CD pipelines to spin up isolated test environments dynamically.

• Performance Tests with Locust
  Load and stress testing using Locust to analyse system behavior under traffic peaks. Includes metric collection and threshold-based validation.

• Playwright E2E in TypeScript
  Frontend end-to-end automation written in TypeScript, demonstrating modern browser testing with clear assertions and reusable test components.

• Python API Automation with Telegram Reporting
  Automated API testing framework in Python, with real-time Telegram bot reporting for visibility during CI/CD runs.

• CI/CD API Tests with Newman
  JavaScript API testing using Newman (Postman CLI) integrated into a GitLab pipeline, featuring automated HTML reporting.

• Python Selenium UI Tests with Allure Reporting
  Web UI test automation built with Selenium + Pytest, producing Allure reports for detailed result visualization.

• Playwright E2E in Python
  Cross-browser automation using Playwright in Python, combining functional and visual validation for robust E2E coverage.

• Security Tests with OWASP ZAP
  Experiment on security testing using OWASP ZAP against the Juice Shop vulnerable app, exploring how to integrate DAST scans in pipelines.

✨ Driven by curiosity, collaboration and the belief that great quality comes from empowered teams and continuous learning. ✨