Ben Quinteros
Senior QA Automation Engineer
Australia Website
QA and reliability engineer with deep experience building automation platforms, CI/CD integrations, and observability-driven quality practices across fintech and SaaS.
Experience
Senior Software QA Engineer — Greenstone Financial Services
2025-03 to Present · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Led modern QA automation strategy and framework rollout using Playwright and CI/CD integration.
- Designed and implemented a Playwright end-to-end testing framework replacing legacy Selenium
- Integrated test framework into Azure DevOps pipelines for release-gated automation
- Built custom Teams notifications and observability dashboards for test outcomes
- Implemented visual regression testing for large-scale dynamic PDF rendering
- Built API automation using generated OpenAPI clients to improve onboarding
- Led workshops and pair-programming sessions to uplift QA and engineering teams
QA Automation Lead — Simpology Australia
2024-03 to 2025-01 · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Led company-wide automation strategy, roadmap, and platform implementation.
- Defined organizational test automation strategy and rollout roadmap
- Built Playwright E2E and Postman/Newman API frameworks with CI/CD integration
- Drove shift-left testing and improved application testability with developer collaboration
- Migrated legacy Cypress/Selenium suites and implemented infrastructure automation
- Embedded observability and business metrics for ROI and quality reporting
Senior Software QA Engineer — DroneShield
2023-10 to 2024-03 · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Owned QA automation and release quality for distributed systems and hardware/software integration.
- Designed and maintained automation frameworks in CI/CD pipelines
- Improved frontend and integration test coverage across complex distributed systems
- Partnered with engineering teams on risk-based test planning and release readiness
Senior Site Reliability Engineer — Rokt
2023-02 to 2023-09 · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Led reliability initiatives across cloud-native services with incident management ownership.
- Led incident management and improved operational playbooks
- Implemented SLO and alerting improvements
- Drove service-catalog and reliability scorecard improvements
Senior Software Engineer (QA) — Rokt
2021-05 to 2023-01 · Sydney, NSW, Australia
Built multi-language quality platforms for functional, contract, visual, and load testing.
- Rolled out visual regression and contract testing across multiple services
- Built performance and traffic-replay load testing solutions
- Delivered training, demos, and architecture documentation across teams
Software Engineer (QA) — Rokt
2020-02 to 2021-05 · Sydney, Australia
Built automation for microservices and ML-adjacent systems in an agile delivery environment.
- Implemented functional, integration, and contract test coverage
- Improved existing Selenium/Gauge end-to-end framework
- Collaborated cross-functionally on test strategy and edge-case design
Software Development Engineer in Test — Prospa
2019-05 to 2020-01 · Sydney, Australia
Built reusable automation frameworks and enabled CI/CD-based quality gates.
- Built Protractor UI and Mocha/Chai API test frameworks
- Implemented Appium mobile automation and test-data generation tooling
- Coached manual testers and developers on test automation practices
Software Engineer — Medical Director
2017-10 to 2019-04 · Sydney, Australia
Worked across full-stack development, TDD, and CI/CD automation in agile teams.
- Delivered end-to-end product features
- Maintained and improved CI/CD pipelines
- Contributed to test-first engineering practices
Junior Software Engineer — Medical Director
2016-10 to 2017-09 · Sydney, Australia
Contributed to product delivery and engineering quality improvements.
Graduate Software Engineer — Medical Director
2016-04 to 2016-09 · Sydney, Australia
Completed rotations in software development and test automation.
- Built feature automation and dashboard tooling
- Delivered bug fixes and enhancements across products
Education
- Western Sydney University — Bachelor Information and Communications Technology (2013 - 2016)
- Austin Peay State University — Bachelor Computer Science (2015 - 2015)
Skills
- Top Skills: Test Automation, Test Driven Development, DevOps
- Automation & QA: Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Postman, Newman, Visual Regression, Contract Testing
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Azure DevOps, Buildkite, Octopus Deploy
- Languages & Scripting: TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, Python, Go, SQL, PowerShell, Bash, YAML
- Languages Spoken: Spanish (Elementary)
Honors & Awards
- Australian Computer Society Foundation Scholarship
- Dean's Merit List
- Australian Government Scholarship
Selected Projects
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Angla
A fishing weather and Instagram-style social app.