Carlos Pineda Email & Phone Number

Waikato, New Zealand

In my current role at Gallagher Group, I have the privilege of leading a talented team of 8 Test Analysts across 3 agile teams. My focus is on delivering best-practice Lean-Agile capabilities and fostering a culture of continuous improvement to ensure we deliver valuable solutions to our customers.Key Responsibilities:💼 Providing leadership, coaching, and mentoring to my team of Testers to empower them in delivering continuous customer value.📚 Training and reviewing the work of other testers to promote professional growth and maintain high-quality standards.🤝 Assisting in the recruitment of new testers to expand our skilled and motivated testing team.🔐 Taking a lead role in managing performance and security testing to ensure robust and reliable software releases.🚀 Releasing software into the production environment with a focus on efficiency and quality.🔍 Conducting risk assessments for regression testing to proactively identify potential issues.📑 Creating comprehensive test strategy documents and detailed test scenarios for identified features.💡 Providing valuable suggestions to the broader team, including Business Analysts, Product & Project Managers, to enhance collaboration and deliver exceptional results.Recent Achievements:🎯 Successfully upskilled and trained my team of 8 testers in automation, resulting in a 30% reduction in testing time and increased efficiency in automated testing processes.⚙️ Implemented multiple hardware setups to optimize and streamline testing, leading to a significant time reduction of approximately 50%, while maintaining thorough and reliable testing outcomes.🏗️ Led the testing of a large-scale project for access control hardware devices, ensuring the sale of thousands of units without any significant issues reported, showcasing the robustness and quality of our testing process.

Auckland, New Zealand

The main responsibility in this role is to perform the testing process from planning and executing for the Polaris project which is a device created for registry and processing information of livestock with a friendly UI developed on the QT platform working on Ubuntu. These are all my responsibilities in this role:• Prepare testing plans and organize testing activities• Design test cases and document them using well-defined test methods• Develop test procedures and test data• Write problem reports and text execution records• Use testing tools and aids• Review test designs, results and problems• Test maintenance changes• Oversee acceptance tests.

Auckland

The main responsibility in this role was to migrate some databases in access to SQL:•Database migrations from Access 2010 to SQL 2005.•Design, development and test of complex SQL Server Stored procedures.•Perform user acceptance, performance and regression testing on new software.•Software documentation.

In this position I was responsible for the functional and non functional tests on smart cards readers:• Prepare testing plans and organize testing activities• Design test cases and document them using well-defined test methods• Develop test procedures and test data• Write problem reports and text execution records• Use testing tools and aids• Review test designs, results and problems• Test maintenance changes

The main responsibility in this role was to design a plan to test and install several interactive games for the Science Museum “ParqueExplora”(http://www.parqueexplora.org/) located in Medellin Colombia. These are all my responsibilities in this role:• Designing and implementation of QA plan.• Design, wiring, connection and setup for control cabinets.• Directing the games installation with the technicians.• On-site Installation of more than 50 permanent interactive attractions.• Create technical documents and prepared documented reports.

Level 7 Diploma, Software Development

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electronic Engineering