Gonçalo Delgado

Test Automation Engineer with 4+ years of experience building and maintaining automation frameworks for cloud-based software in international and Agile environments. Specialist in Playwright (JavaScript) — designing, scaling, and maintaining end-to-end test suites integrated into GitLab CI/CD pipelines. Strong background in API test automation with Postman, test architecture design, and pipeline-level quality gates.

Actively integrating AI tooling into the automation workflow — from AI-assisted test generation and automatic bug reporting to CI/CD-integrated stakeholder dashboards — to maximise coverage and delivery speed.

QA Engineer at LoopOS (2025-08 – Present)

• Lead the QA team, defining automation strategy and aligning test coverage with release goals across the full CI/CD pipeline.
• Designed and built end-to-end test automation frameworks using Playwright (JavaScript), covering functional, regression, and integration scenarios for web applications.
• Integrated Playwright test suites into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, implementing quality gates that block deployments on critical test failures and provide per-run reports to the team.
• Structured automation around Page Object Model (POM) and reusable fixture patterns to ensure maintainability and scalability as the product evolves.
• Automated API testing with Postman collections integrated into CI/CD, validating RESTful endpoints, authentication flows, and edge-case error handling on every build.
• Integrated AI tooling across the automation lifecycle: uses Cursor (AI-powered IDE with custom rules) to accelerate test script authoring; leverages AI pipelines for automatic bug report generation from test failures and CI/CD-triggered stakeholder dashboards, eliminating manual reporting overhead.
• Collaborated closely with developers and DevOps across teams and regions to embed testing earlier in the development cycle and continuously improve automation coverage.

Lead QA Engineer at InnoWave (2021-12 – 2025-07)

• Built and maintained automated test frameworks for web and API-based cloud applications across multiple Agile projects, with a focus on regression coverage and CI/CD integration.
• Developed Playwright-based E2E test suites, progressively replacing manual regression runs and reducing release cycle testing time.
• Scripted and maintained automated Postman collections for API regression, validating RESTful endpoints, contracts, and error-handling behaviours on every build.
• Reported and triaged defects in Azure DevOps, collaborating with developers on root-cause analysis and integrating fix-verification steps into the automation pipeline.
• Contributed to Agile ceremonies, ensuring user stories included clear acceptance criteria and testable definitions of done.
• Designed functional, regression, smoke, and exploratory test cases to complement automation coverage where scripted tests alone were insufficient.
• Mentored junior testers on automation best practices, Playwright framework patterns, and CI/CD pipeline integration.

MSc in Biomedical Engineering – University of Coimbra (2016-09 – 2021-07)