Francisco Suarez

Senior Software QA Automation Engineer with over 8 years of experience leading and executing end-to-end test strategies, automated framework architecture, and continuous integration pipelines. Proven expertise in functional, API, regression, performance, and system validation across Cloud, FinTech, Automotive (AUTOSAR 4.7), Industrial IoT, and Aerospace domains. Strong advocate for shift-left testing methodologies, embedding quality from design phases, and leveraging root-cause analysis for deep forensic troubleshooting.

Expert in bridging high-level software quality assurance with low-level systems engineering, building strict quality gates using Robot Framework, Selenium, Python, Java, and AI-assisted automation workflows.

System Test Engineer at Schneider Electric (2026-01 – 2026-07)

Industrial Edge & EcoStruxure Cloud Platforms

• Researched, designed, and implemented optimized prompt-engineering workflows using GitHub Copilot to refactor legacy C# system test suites into Python and Robot Framework for industrial Edge Platforms, reducing migration effort by 60%.
• Executed end-to-end (E2E) system tests and API endpoint validations for EcoStruxure Platform cloud services and industrial Edge devices, ensuring continuous stability.

QA Test Lead at MobileKnowledge (2024-05 – 2026-01)

AUTOSAR 4.7 Wireless BMS & NXP Semiconductor Partnership

• Led end-to-end testing processes for AUTOSAR 4.7 Wireless Battery Management Systems (BMS) with Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology in partnership with NXP; acted as Technical Test Lead in SAFe PI Planning sessions to align quality criteria.
• Designed and executed functional and integration test verification for messaging protocols between NXP S32K3 microcontrollers and BMA606X ICs, achieving 80% test coverage on critical communication drivers and board bring-up packages.
• Co-engineered an automated Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) bench test framework using LabVIEW and National Instruments hardware. Managed ECU configurations in EB tresos and conducted low-level register debugging using Lauterbach TRACE32.
• Architected Bamboo CI stability pipelines managing automated regression testing for low-level Bitbucket repositories and structured integration flows.

QA Automation Engineer at dLocal (2022-06 – 2024-04)

Cloud FinTech & Cross-Border Payment Microservices

• Designed, built, and maintained scalable UI and API test automation suites using Java, Selenium, TestNG, and REST Assured for AWS-hosted microservices processing high-volume payment routing over 12 million daily API transactions and KYC compliance.
• Executed thorough exploratory and manual API validation with Postman and Swagger during early staging deployment phases, catching critical edge cases before production release.
• Conducted API performance and load testing using Apache JMeter to validate SLA/KPI thresholds. Utilized Kibana and Logz.io for distributed forensic log tracing.
• Embedded and maintained automated regression test suites inside Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines under Agile Kanban workflows.

Automation Tester at INVAP (2021-06 – 2022-05)

Aerospace Satellite Systems (SABIA-Mar Mission)

• Implemented automated acceptance test suites using Robot Framework and Python to validate main onboard computer services for the SABIA-Mar satellite mission.
• Validated command handling and telemetry data exchange over high-speed SpaceWire and MIL-STD-1553 bus networks.
• Executed forensic log analysis using ElasticSearch; managed defect tracking and requirement coverage within Jira Agile/Scrum.

Embedded Software Developer at Freelancer (2020-05 – 2021-07)

IoT Solution (Proof of Concept)

• Developed an IoT remote monitoring system on Raspberry Pi (C/C++, MQTT, REST APIs) and created automated functional verification scripts for hardware/software integration.

Embedded Software Developer at Megatrans S.A. (2017-08 – 2019-05)

Automotive Telematics & AVL Devices

• Designed low-level firmware for AVL tracking units (RTX-ARM). Developed FOTA middleware, low-level I2C drivers, and automated unit testing suites using CMock and Ceedling frameworks.

Postgraduate Specialization Degree in Embedded Systems.

Focus: Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS), MISRA C, C++, VHDL, Microcontroller Architectures, Hardware-Software Co-design. – University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016 – 2018)

Degree in Electronic Engineering (6-Year Curriculum) in Focus: Telecommunications, Control Systems, Digital Signal Processing, Circuit Design. – University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2004 – 2015)