Karla Ireri Reyes Macedo

QA Automation Lead with 6+ years of experience in manual and automated testing for enterprise web, mobile, API, banking, ERP, and business platforms. Experienced leading QA initiatives, regression testing, UAT coordination, defect management, and automation framework implementation in Agile environments. Strong background in Selenium, Java, API testing, Jira, and CI/CD workflows, with hands-on experience collaborating with technical teams, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure software quality and release stability.

Currently expanding automation expertise with Playwright and modern test automation practices.

QA Automation Engineer - TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES - Guadalajara (hybrid)

(2024-04 - 2026-04)

• Executed end-to-end regression, functional, and non-functional testing for enterprise banking platforms within the Citi Bank project.
• Developed and maintained automated test scripts using Selenium WebDriver, Java, and Cucumber to improve regression coverage and release stability.
• Validated vendor releases, enhancements, and configuration updates across multiple testing environments.
• Collaborated with developers, business analysts, and stakeholders during Agile sprint cycles to identify risks, edge cases, and testing priorities.
• Managed defect lifecycle activities in Jira, including documentation, evidence gathering, retesting, and validation of fixes.
• Supported high-volume financial transaction systems, ensuring platform reliability and compliance with quality standards.
• Contributed to continuous improvement of QA processes and automation strategy within SDLC workflows.

QA Lead - KIRITEK - Morelia, hybrid

(2022-02 - 2024-02)

• Led QA activities for multiple enterprise web and mobile applications, including ERP helpdesk, ticket management, and retail systems.
• Designed and implemented scalable Selenium automation frameworks using Page Object Model (POM), reducing manual regression effort by 30%.
• Coordinated testing efforts across a team of 5 QA engineers, overseeing test planning, execution, defect management, and release validation.
• Led regression testing, exploratory testing, and UAT support activities in collaboration with business stakeholders and development teams.
• Created testing documentation, reusable templates, test cases, and execution evidence to improve QA traceability and consistency.
• Mentored QA team members in automation best practices using Java, JavaScript, Selenium, and API testing tools.
• Performed API validation using Postman and performance testing using JMeter.
• Identified opportunities to increase automation coverage and improve QA efficiency across multiple products.
• Quality Assurance manual tester
• Quality Assurance automation tester using Selenium, Postman and Jmeter
• Execute Exploratory Testing, Manual Testing, Functional and Non-Functional for systems mentioned above

Web Developer Full Stack, QA - IVAKSYS - Morelia, remote

(2019-11 - 2021-12)

• Quality Assurance Tester. Performed JUnit, manual, Selenium automation, web app and mobile testing for: - three web apps of medical and pharmaceutical content - two web pages of e-commerce - directory type, mobile app with medical content
• Web development LAMP stack of five different pages - three web apps of medical and pharmaceutical content - two web pages of e-commerce Tools used: MVC, JDBC, JSP, J2EE, API REST, JSON, JS, JPA, JSF, DTO, DAO, VO, UML, DOM, WAR, Apache Tapestry, Spring, Maven, Hibernate, RichFaces, Containers and WildFly.
• Maintenance of five different sites (mentioned above) based on java, at backend and frontend using previous described tools.

Bachelor's Degree Studies at National Autonomous University of Mexico - Information Technologies in Information Sciences - UNAM / Information Technologies in Information Sciences (2014-08 - 2019-06)