Leonardo Lanni - QA Lead and Test Automation Expert

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Sitges, Spain

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Experience

Feb 2020 - Present

6 years 10 months

Sitges, Spain

QA Lead, Test Manager & Test Automation Expert

Freelancer

Building, leading, managing and coaching the QA Team, while also acting as Scrum Master and Project Manager.
Defining and implementing quality and testing processes, test strategy and architecture, KPIs, quality gates and goals.
Driving the test automation framework across different levels (E2E UI, Integration, Unit) using technologies such as Selenium, Cypress.io, Cucumber / Gherkin, Codeception, and mobile testing tools like Appium.
Managing Agile organisation (SAFe) in testing and development (TDD, BDD, etc).
Building CD/CI pipelines using Jenkins, Bamboo, and GitHub Actions to automate processes and reduce time to market.
Organising, planning, and carrying out E2E and UAT testing phases.
Preparing test plans and test executions using test management tools such as TestRail and Jira XRay.
Organising release testing and managing bugs and fixes.
Providing quality reports to senior management and acting as the SPOC for all testing and QA.
Building a QA mindset and culture in the company through mentoring and promoting QA as everyone's responsibility.
Monitoring the quality of the live product/service through defined quality gates and defining recovery actions and plans in case of live issues.
Teaching and mentoring QA Team members to help them develop from manual testers into SDETs.
Leading a 10-person automation team implementing automated test cases for SEPA payments for a DE-based customer with European scope, in a crossover role as QA Lead, Scrum Master, and Project Manager for Specific Group Germany.
Implementing E2E UI test cases from scratch for a B2B SAP Hybris-based eCommerce platform for Coca Cola using Serenity JS and Typescript as an SDET.
Building the entire E2E UI test automation framework with Cypress.io for a React-based eHealth application at a Berlin-based startup.
Defining and supporting QA processes and automation for a USA startup in cooperation with the CTO, Engineering Leads, and Head of Product.
Leading E2E and UAT testing for the Mediamarkt Omnichannel Spine initiative, integrating SAP as the new ERP system for NL and DE, including 25 teams and approximately 600 people in test management.
Creating the test strategy, automation and pipeline for a Hong Kong-based company delivering a Wordpress Plugin.
Providing online or live training on QA topics such as test automation (JMeter, Selenium, Cypress.io), BDD, TDD, performance & scalability testing, QA processes, and bug handling.

Dec 2018 - Jan 2020

1 year 2 months

Barcelona, Spain

QA Chapter Lead

Free NOW (formerly mytaxi)

Led, mentored, and coached a team of QA Engineers and SDETs during the development of new features for the iOS and Android driver applications.
Built the Quality Assurance framework, test automation, bug handling, processes, and methodologies, using a KPI- and data-driven approach to decision-making.
Worked hands-on across several QA areas to support the team and help deliver an excellent application.
Checked the quality of new application releases and led the QA contribution to building a fully automated pipeline towards CD/CI.
Collaborated with stakeholders including the CTO, Head of Engineering, Tribe Leads, Head of Product, Product Owners, Chapter Leads, Scrum Masters, and Developers.

Apr 2018 - Dec 2018

9 months

Barcelona, Spain

Head of QA

Windeln.de SE / Bebitus

Served as Head of QA for Windeln and Bebitus from the Bebitus office in Barcelona after relocating from Munich.

Jan 2016 - Apr 2018

2 years 4 months

Munich, Germany

Head of QA

Windeln.de SE

Delivered the best user experience to customers across several shops, including DE, CH, IT, ES, FR, PT, and China.
Led a team of 10+ people, working primarily remotely from the Romanian branch in Sibiu.
Focused on manual testing, including frontend (new features, bug fixes, responsive design, mobile devices, app testing), test automation (Selenium), and backend testing (integration, feeds, scripting) in a Scrum context.
Managed new shop releases from the DevOps pipeline through QA testing to the live release, and monitored new versions on production systems.
Coordinated activities among business people, the CTO, Head of Product, Product Owners, Managers, and Developers across the Germany and Romania offices.

Jul 2014 - Dec 2015

1 year 6 months

Munich, Germany

Quality Assurance Leader

Planet Sports GmbH

Set the strategy and implemented Quality Assurance processes, focusing on improving the customer and buying experience on a Magento-based eCommerce platform.
Built test automation processes from scratch and drove the continuous integration infrastructure for Desktop and Mobile.
Used tools and software including Selenium, Appium, Java, and scripting within an Agile Test Driven Development context.

Nov 2012 - Jul 2014

1 year 9 months

Munich, Germany

Quality Assurance Engineer

Wirecard AG

Delivered quality software for payment methods in Wirecard product lines, focusing on test automation in a Scrum/Agile context.
Used Continuous Integration (CI) tools including SoapUI, JMeter, Selenium, Eclipse, Jira, Jenkins, Maven, Mercurial, and Puppet.
Delivered the SEPA Payment method by the European deadline of February 2014, fully meeting quality metrics and SLA requirements.
Wrote and updated documentation in an internal Twiki document repository.
Maintained test cases for legacy modules through automated or manual testing using scripts.

Dec 2011 - Feb 2012

3 months

New York, United States

Software Engineer - Performance/Scalability

Metlife

Performed performance and scalability testing, configuration, and tuning for an IBM Tivoli application installed at MetLife.
Worked on-site in the customer's environment on secondment from IBM.

Sep 2009 - Nov 2012

3 years 3 months

Rome, Italy

Software Engineer - Quality Assurance

IBM

Developed Tivoli applications, test automation, scripts, configuration, and tuning as a Software Engineer in the QA area.
Performed scalability and performance testing, capacity planning, and wrote white papers.
Wrote documentation to help customers deploy complex IBM Tivoli applications across distributed and clustered environments.
Wrote white papers and internal documents for sales teams and customers.

Sep 2007 - Sep 2009

2 years 1 month

Rome, Italy

Software Engineer - Development

IBM

Developed J2EE and J2SE modules for Tivoli applications, focusing on web user interfaces using Ajax-based frameworks such as Dojo.
Focused on cross-browser compatibility, accessibility, usability, ease of use, performance, security, and localisation.
Automated the installation of some components for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler using InstallShield, InstallAnywhere, and scripts.
Developed application modules for IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler as part of a globally distributed team in a fully Agile Scrum environment.

May 2007 - Sep 2007

5 months

Rieti, Italy

System Analyst

Telpress Italia

Worked as a System Analyst on an information retrieval system with a semantic search engine.
Focused on tuning, configuring, and optimising the system to deliver the best results for customers.

Industry experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Retail, Healthcare, Banking and Finance, Transportation, and Media and Entertainment.

Information Technology

Retail

Healthcare

Banking and Finance

Transportation

Media and Entertainment

Business area experience

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Experienced in Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development.

Quality Assurance

Information Technology

Project Management

Product Development

Summary

QA Lead · Test Manager · Test Automation Expert - Helping companies deliver the highest software quality for products and services · 16+ years of experience in hands-on IT operations and strategic leadership (Software Engineer, Test Architect, Head of Quality Assurance, QA Mentor and Coach, Agile People and Project Manager) · I have worked for international companies (IBM and Fortune 200) as well as various startups · Inventor of international patents (10+ Patents).

Skills

Organisational Skills

Leadership: Experience Leading An Internationally Distributed Team Of More Than 10 People, Organising Work According To Priorities, Company Goals And Okrs;
Communication: Aligning With Other Stakeholders And Business People;
People Management: Working With My Team Members To Achieve Goals, Understand People’S Needs And Maximise The Way The Team Works By Motivating People And Adapting To Ever-Changing Requirements;
Startup Entrepreneurial Vision: I Believe In Creating And Developing Startups Using The Lean Approach;
Vision & Mission: Always Keeping In Mind Where We Are Headed And What We Need To Do To Achieve Our Goals.

Communication And Interpersonal Skills

Excellent Communication Skills, With The Ability To Speak In The Right Terms With Different Stakeholders From Different Backgrounds;
Strong Believer In Communication As A Way To Improve How A Company Works And, In Turn, The Quality Of Its Products;
Continuously Experimenting With Changes To Improve How My Team And I, Or Our Stakeholders, Work: Try The Change, Validate It, Analyse The Feedback, Decide Whether To Continue Or Pivot, And Learn From Mistakes To Make Things Better;

Job-Related Skills

Programming Languages: Java Se, Java Ee, Java Me, C, Php, (X)Html, Xml, Installshield, Javascript, Typescript, Dojo, Ajax, Flex, Gwt, Sql, Lisp, Prolog, Ampl, Groovy, Bash Scripting;
Operating Systems: Windows, Linux, Unix Distributions, Aix (Ibm Power Series P7) - Cloud & Virtualisation, Macos;
Test Automation Suite Development (Selenium, Cypress, Codeception, Cucumber/Gherkin, Soapui, Jmeter);
Performance And Scalability Testing;
Expertise In Qa And Testing For Ecommerce, With A Focus On Magento-Based Platforms
Frontend And E2e Testing (Serenity Bdd, Serenity Js, Selenium, Eclipse, Wintask);
Integration Testing With Stubs And Mocks (Wiremocks);
Backend Testing And Contract Testing (Soapui, Swagger,Pact);
Unit Testing (Junit);
Mobile Testing And Test Automation (Appium, Basic Knowledge Of Xcuitest For Ios And Espresso For Android);
Manual And Exploratory Testing, Including Preparing Release Testing Documents, Reports And Deliverables;
Agile Development And Related Tools (Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Youtrack);
Deployment Automation (Svn, Mercurial, Puppet, Groovy);
Continuous Integration Development (Bamboo, Jenkins, Git, Gitlab, Github);
Other Testing Tools: Postman, Charles
Wordpress Testing And Wordpress Plugin Testing;
Basic Knowledge Of Angular Js And Ionic Framework;
Seo: Expert In Search Engine Optimisation;
Installation Platforms: Installshield, Installanywhere;
Rsa And Eclipse: Emf, Plugin Development;
Rational Performance Tester
Rational Functional Tester
Databases: Db2, Oracle, Mysql, Mongodb;
Websphere Application Server, Weblogic Server- Bash Scripting And Jython;
Expert In Tivoli Workload Automation (Twa 8.5, 8.5.1, 8.6) And Tivoli Workload Scheduler (Tws 8.5, 8.5.1, 8.6);
People Management Skills;
Product Development Skills;
Project Management Skills;
Scrum Master And Facilitator Skills;

Languages

Italian

Native

English

Advanced

German

Intermediate

Spanish

Elementary

Education

Jan 2005 - May 2007

Università di Roma "La Sapienza"

Master Degree in Computer Science · Computer Science · Rome, Italy · 110 / 110

Certifications & licenses

Safe Driving Course Certificate

Trinity Certification In English Language, 9th Level

IBM Certified SOA Associate

IBM DB2 9 Family Fundamentals Certified

IBM WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment V7.0 Certified

TWS 8.6 Certified

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 10

Experience in Information Technology 13 y

Avg length 1 y 11 m

Longest experience 6 y 9 m

Global experience

Countries worked in 4 (Spain, Germany, Italy, United States)

Primary country Spain

Expertise

Recent roles QA Lead, Test Manager & Test Automation Expert, QA Chapter Lead, Head of QA

Main industries Information Technology, Retail, Healthcare

Main business areas Quality Assurance, Information Technology, Project Management

Qualifications

Highest degree Master

Certifications earned 7

Member since

January 2026

Last update

November 2026

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Leonardo is based in Sitges, Spain.

Leonardo speaks the following languages: Italian (Native), English (Advanced), German (Intermediate), Spanish (Elementary).

Leonardo has at least 20 years of experience. During this time, Leonardo has worked in at least 9 different roles and for 9 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 11 months. Note that Leonardo may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Leonardo would be well-suited for roles such as: QA Lead, Test Manager & Test Automation Expert, QA Chapter Lead, Head of QA.

Leonardo's most recent position is QA Lead, Test Manager & Test Automation Expert at Freelancer.

In recent years, Leonardo has worked for Freelancer.

Leonardo is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Retail, and Healthcare. Leonardo also has some experience in Banking and Finance, Transportation, and Media and Entertainment.

Leonardo is most experienced in business areas like Quality Assurance, Information Technology, and Project Management. Leonardo also has some experience in Product Development.

Leonardo has recently worked in industries like Healthcare, Information Technology, and Retail.

Leonardo has recently worked in business areas like Project Management and Quality Assurance.

Leonardo holds a Master in Computer Science from Università di Roma "La Sapienza".

Leonardo has 7 certificates. Among them, these include: Safe Driving Course Certificate, Trinity Certification In English Language, 9th Level, and IBM Certified SOA Associate.

Leonardo will be available from January 2027.

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