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

  • Angla

    A fishing weather and Instagram-style social app.