Hi, my name is

Richard Estrada

I break things so users don't have to.

I'm a Software Test Automation Engineer focused on building reliable end-to-end, API, and performance test suites that ship quality software with confidence.

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About Me

Hello! I'm Richard, a Software Test Automation Engineer who's passionate about quality. My journey into QA started when I realized how much confidence a solid automated test suite gives a team, and it grew into a career built around catching bugs before users ever see them.

I design and maintain end-to-end, API, and performance test frameworks, and I care deeply about reliable, maintainable tests that fit cleanly into CI/CD pipelines. I believe quality is a shared responsibility, and good automation is what makes fast releases safe.

Here are a few tools and technologies I work with regularly:

Cypress
Playwright
Selenium WebDriver
Postman & Bruno
REST Assured
JMeter
JavaScript / TypeScript
Java
Git & CI/CD
Jenkins / GitHub Actions

Skills

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UI / E2E Automation

End-to-end web testing with Cypress and Playwright, covering cross-browser flows, visual checks, and flaky-test hardening.

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API Automation

Functional and contract testing of REST and GraphQL APIs using Postman, Bruno, and REST Assured, including data-driven suites.

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Performance Testing

Load, stress, and soak testing with JMeter to find bottlenecks, validate SLAs, and analyze response-time trends.

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Mobile Automation

Native and hybrid mobile app testing on Android and iOS with Appium across real devices and emulators.

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CI/CD & DevOps

Integrating automated suites into Jenkins and GitHub Actions pipelines with parallel runs, reporting, and Docker.

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BDD & Frameworks

Building maintainable frameworks with Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit, Mocha, and the Page Object Model.

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Test Management

Test planning, case design, and defect tracking with Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, and X-Ray across Agile teams.

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Manual & Exploratory

Functional, regression, exploratory, and accessibility testing to complement automation where it matters most.