Sérgio Costa
RPA and Test Automation Engineer at HN Services Portugal- Claim this Profile
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José Godinho
Tive o prazer de trabalhar durante 6 anos com o Sérgio, fomos uns dos pioneiros na equipa de automação, e ao longo desse tempo foram muitos os projetos que concretizamos juntos, em que o Sérgio sempre demonstrou capacidade, rigor e grande qualidade para resolver os problemas e ajudar em todos os aspetos do projeto. O Sérgio demonstrou sempre boa capacidade de liderança e gestão de equipa.
Filipe Bartolomeu
Sergio's ability to put in practice indications about test automation, continuous integration and infrastructure. Exceeded my expectations and made possible huge improvements on the core test automation framework.
José Godinho
Tive o prazer de trabalhar durante 6 anos com o Sérgio, fomos uns dos pioneiros na equipa de automação, e ao longo desse tempo foram muitos os projetos que concretizamos juntos, em que o Sérgio sempre demonstrou capacidade, rigor e grande qualidade para resolver os problemas e ajudar em todos os aspetos do projeto. O Sérgio demonstrou sempre boa capacidade de liderança e gestão de equipa.
Filipe Bartolomeu
Sergio's ability to put in practice indications about test automation, continuous integration and infrastructure. Exceeded my expectations and made possible huge improvements on the core test automation framework.
José Godinho
Tive o prazer de trabalhar durante 6 anos com o Sérgio, fomos uns dos pioneiros na equipa de automação, e ao longo desse tempo foram muitos os projetos que concretizamos juntos, em que o Sérgio sempre demonstrou capacidade, rigor e grande qualidade para resolver os problemas e ajudar em todos os aspetos do projeto. O Sérgio demonstrou sempre boa capacidade de liderança e gestão de equipa.
Filipe Bartolomeu
Sergio's ability to put in practice indications about test automation, continuous integration and infrastructure. Exceeded my expectations and made possible huge improvements on the core test automation framework.
José Godinho
Tive o prazer de trabalhar durante 6 anos com o Sérgio, fomos uns dos pioneiros na equipa de automação, e ao longo desse tempo foram muitos os projetos que concretizamos juntos, em que o Sérgio sempre demonstrou capacidade, rigor e grande qualidade para resolver os problemas e ajudar em todos os aspetos do projeto. O Sérgio demonstrou sempre boa capacidade de liderança e gestão de equipa.
Filipe Bartolomeu
Sergio's ability to put in practice indications about test automation, continuous integration and infrastructure. Exceeded my expectations and made possible huge improvements on the core test automation framework.
Credentials
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ISTQB - Certified Tester Foundation Agile Tester
ASTQB - ISTQB in the U.S. - Official PageDec, 2020- Nov, 2024 -
ISTQB - Certified Tester Foundation Level
ISTQB - International Software Testing Qualifications BoardNov, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Adobe Photoshop CS6
Universidade da Beira InteriorJul, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Linux Essentials
Linux Professional InstituteJul, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
Successful Conclusion of Java Altran Academy
AltranJul, 2014- Nov, 2024 -
CCNA 1: Network Fundamentals
CiscoJan, 2013- Nov, 2024 -
MATLAB: Rich Programs Development
Universidade da Beira InteriorJan, 2012- Nov, 2024
Experience
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HN Services Portugal
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Portugal
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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RPA and Test Automation Engineer
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Jul 2021 - Present
✔ Analysis of an existing automation Katalon arquitecture to migrate a few hundred of automated CTs to a free/open-source stack. ✔ Design and implementation of a new automation arquitecture using Cucumber, Java, Selenium and Appium. ✔ Development of ATs for multiple technologies, namely Web(Shadow DOMs included), API, DB(SQL Server) and Mobile Android/iOS. ✔ Test scheduling and execution via Jenkins CI with Jira/XRay and Kibana integration. ✔ Implementation of an automation infrastructure based on OpenShift/Docker with dynamic and scalable agents for test execution. ✔ Measuring applications performance with some load/stress tests with JMeter and Locust. Show less
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Altice Portugal
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Portugal
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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RPA and Test Automation Lead
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May 2017 - Jul 2021
✔ RPA/TA developer and automation team coordinator. ✔ Responsible for the design, development and deployment of RPA (robots) into Production environments using free/open-source tools; ✔ Team responsible for implement and maintain over 10K test cases running daily (browser HTML/Silverlight/Flash ,desktop apps, API, databases, mobile, terminals); ✔ Over 30 systems under test in DEV, QA, PRE-PROD and PROD (sanity) environments; ✔ Over 60 servers/agents (Linux and Windows) supporting RPA and TA execution. Servers installed and configured from scratch; ✔ Export and integration (via API) of results for multiple external platforms, such as ALM QC, Jira and Logstash/Kibana; ✔ Implementation and configuration of different types of execution dashboards (API or database based) and email reports; ✔ Development of Django web apps to support ATs by generating and managing test data, and produce custom dashboards/reports; ✔ Several technologies involved: Python, RF, HTML and Silverlight, Win Apps and Oracle Forms, DBs, WSs SOAP and REST, Putty/SSH, Django... ✔ Working in Agile environments with Scrum methodology. Show less
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Portugal Telecom
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Portugal
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Test Automation Engineer
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Nov 2014 - May 2017
✔ Automation of full business processes flows developed in different kinds of platforms/architectures(Web, MS Win, WSs SOAP/REST and DB) with Cucumber+Ruby and Robotframework+Python; ✔ Automation of regression and integrated tests in TELCO Network Inventory and Order Management systems; ✔ PTSmartTest - Design and development of a RoR framework to accelerate and facilitate automated tests development with no-code; ✔ Development of a RoR Proxy for filtering SOAP requests in QA and Automation environments; ✔ Development of Python and Ruby libraries to integrate automation infraestructure with ALM Quality Center; ✔ Design, development, execution and monitoring of load tests in an application API/web/DB based, to obtain performance metrics; ✔ Continuous integration and infrastructure design, installation and configuration (Linux and Win) for automated testing. ✔ Several technologies involved: Robotframework, Cucumber, Gherkin, Python, Ruby, Selenium, AutoIt, Sikuli, UFT, SoapUI, ALM QC, PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, API Show less
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e.near by Connect Digital
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Portugal
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Developer
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Jul 2013 - Nov 2014
Web and Android developer. Web and Android developer.
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Researcher
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2012 - Nov 2014
Major projects: ✔ GOpenSSL - A Graphical User Interface for OpenSSL; (Python, GTK, OpenSSL, Linux) ✔ BitPoints - A mobile virtual loyalty card based on BITCOIN protocol; (Android, Java, Cryptography) Major projects: ✔ GOpenSSL - A Graphical User Interface for OpenSSL; (Python, GTK, OpenSSL, Linux) ✔ BitPoints - A mobile virtual loyalty card based on BITCOIN protocol; (Android, Java, Cryptography)
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Researcher
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2010 - 2012
HULTIG is the Centre for Human Language Technology and Bioinformatics Major projects: ✔ UbiMedical - Ubiquitous application for deep and centralized medical search in several international databases (UMLP, ICD-10, PubMed and Medicine Catalog) . (WP7, Android, C#, WCF, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server) HULTIG is the Centre for Human Language Technology and Bioinformatics Major projects: ✔ UbiMedical - Ubiquitous application for deep and centralized medical search in several international databases (UMLP, ICD-10, PubMed and Medicine Catalog) . (WP7, Android, C#, WCF, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server)
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Education
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2012 - 2014
Universidade da Beira Interior
MSc in Computer Science, Engenharia de Computação -
2008 - 2012
Universidade da Beira Interior
BSc in Computer Engineering
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