QA Engineer with a designer's eye

13 years in manual QA and quality strategy, with a UX background. I help teams understand product risk, test what matters, and make informed release decisions.

Visual Technical Strategic
Ilverzon Zarate

Selected QA work

Examples of how I prioritise coverage, investigate failures, and use automation to support product quality. Each case includes the approach and evidence.

PUBLIC QA CASE STUDY

Risk-based coverage strategy

For an e-commerce testing challenge, I prioritised purchase, registration, and authentication around upcoming product changes. The strategy explains what to test first and why.

Risk-based QATest strategyCritical journeys

PROFESSIONAL WORK · ANONYMISED

Cypress migration & visual validation

Combined Cypress migration checks with visual regression across desktop and mobile viewports. Anonymised evidence shows how I checked critical UI areas for unintended changes.

CypressVisual regressionResponsive QA

PUBLIC PROJECT

Critical-flow automation & CI

Automated critical e-commerce journeys on a site with known defects. HTML reports and cross-browser CI surface the failures rather than hide them behind a green build.

CypressHTML reportsGitHub Actions

PUBLIC PROJECT · AI-ASSISTED

Playwright E2E framework

Used AI to support test planning and Playwright implementation. The workflow connects the plan, generation instructions, reviewed code, and cross-browser results.

PlaywrightAI-assistedHuman-reviewed

Professional work is anonymised to protect client confidentiality.

How I work

Quality is part of product work.

Manual QA and UX inform my decisions. Automation and AI support the work; they do not replace judgement.

01

I start with risk: what can fail, who it affects, and where the team needs confidence.

02

I build quality into delivery, from discovery and acceptance criteria through release.

03

I automate the repeatable and protect time for product judgement, usability, and real-world edge cases.

Experience

13 years in QA, focused on product quality.

2020–2025

Senior QA Analyst

Huge · Bogotá, Colombia

Built QA processes and Cypress automation for enterprise releases. Automation made critical flows repeatable before deployment, reduced manual effort, and gave teams earlier feedback. Coordinated distributed teams and mentored junior QA engineers.

2018–2020

Senior QC Analyst

Globant · Buenos Aires, Argentina

Led QA across concurrent Agile projects, introducing Cypress automation, quality metrics, and release-readiness practices.

2015–2018

QA Analyst

Globant · Bogotá, Colombia

Validated responsive web applications across front-end and back-end flows, shaping test strategy and acceptance criteria for major releases.

2012–2015

Sr. Technical QA Analyst

VML (VMLY&R) · Bogotá, Colombia

Prioritised high-risk campaign-platform testing, established baseline QA practices, and translated technical issues into stakeholder impact.

Let's talk.

Based in Barcelona. Open to full-time roles and collaborations in tech companies operating in European or global markets.