Francis Lagadia

Software Development Engineer in Test

About Me

I’m an SDET with over 5 years experience having worked with enterprise and web-based apps. Apart from testing and QA I also have experience in design and development.

I’m currently working for Chrome River as part of the integrations team.

Tools/Libraries I use:

  • PyTest
  • Locust
  • Hypothesis
  • Neovim

Experience

Chrome River Technologies

https://www.chromeriver.com

Software Development Engineer in Test

October 2018 - present

Build and enhance automated tests including harnesses and infrastructure for the integrations team. Work with CI/CD and build pipelines. Advocate quality tasks during sprint cycle. Perform load testing using Locust.

  • Test framework stack: Python, Pytest, AWS

Transplant Connect

https://transplantconnect.com

Software QA Analyst

November 2017 - October 2018

Test and report issues for a Patient Information System web application. Implemented a browser automation framework using Page Object Model

  • Test framework stack: Selenium, Python, unittest then ported over to C# and nUnit

SQASquared

http://sqasquared.com

Junior QA Analyst II

February 2017 - September 2017

Served as point of contact for onsite members in identifying, and executing test cases and create reports and feedback for failing and undocumented behavior of system under test for different clients such as Ticketmaster and Advantage Sales and Marketing

  • Front-end test framework stack: Java, Cucumber, Selenium
  • Angular web app test framework stack: Python, PyTractor

Nokia Networks

https://www.nokia.com

R&D Engineer

July 2014 - November 2016

Part of LTE Tools team providing feature update and maintenance for internal tools for the DOCOMO project

  • Designed and implemented commandline interface adapters for legacy Windows applications for integration to CI/CD pipeline using Python and Robot Framework
  • Create test libraries for automated functional and regression tests using Robot Framework
  • Win32 application development stack: C++, C++Builder
  • Embedded system development stack: VxWorks, C

Fujitsu Ten Solutions Philippines

https://www.fujitsu.com/ph/

Systems Engineer

January 2012 - June 2014

Part of Car Infotainment team and developed LCD display drivers and USB/IPOD interfaces for clients.

  • Development stack: C, Windows CE

Education

Don Bosco Technical College

BS Electronics and Communications Engineering

Completed with the final thesis about the effects of spray patterns as fire suppresion tested using a prototype Arduino-powered fire suppression system capable of changing spray patterns via feedback from sensors logged and interfaced into LabView

A Little More About Me

In my spare time I tinker with my Unraid server, play PC games, watch Magic: The Gathering streams, and update my Neovim config file.