laura friozi
laura friozi

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

Actively looking · Member since 8 Sep 2026
Location
São Paulo, Brazil
Desired salary
Confidential
Work preference
Remote Only / Full Time
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am a Senior SDET and quality engineering professional with more than 10 years of experience defining quality strategy, test automation, and release readiness for web, mobile, API, distributed, and AI-driven systems.

I have led high-visibility, regulated-domain initiatives in payments, tax, compliance, and e-commerce. At Amazon Brazil, I served as a technical quality gate for major launches including FBA, 3P Sellers, Retail, and Prime Subscription, translating delivery risks into clear go/no-go recommendations.

I currently lead test strategy at Avalara, supporting platform modernization from .NET 6 to .NET 8, creating automation frameworks from the ground up, and integrating continuous testing into GitLab CI/CD pipelines. I focus on risk-based validation, critical-path coverage, and dependable production releases.

I specialize in UI, API, mobile, integration, end-to-end, performance, and distributed-systems testing. My technical background includes Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Java, Python, C#, Kotlin, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices.

I also work in AI quality engineering, building automated LLM evaluation frameworks for hallucination, RAG groundedness, bias, toxicity, prompt injection, jailbreak resistance, and PII leakage. I use quantitative quality thresholds and AI-assisted engineering tools to improve both quality outcomes and automation delivery speed.

I enjoy mentoring QA engineers, collaborating across Product, Engineering, DevOps, and business teams, and establishing scalable quality standards that help organizations deliver complex systems safely.

Notice period: 15 days

Skills

34 capabilities

Tech stack & tools

Working toolkit

Experience

Career history

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) Avalara

I lead the test strategy for the .NET 6 to .NET 8 migration and related architectural changes. I prioritize critical tests, create test data, study business workflows, and support safe platform modernization across Property Tax services.

I built an end-to-end automation framework from scratch, raising automated coverage for critical test cases from 0% to 100%. I integrated automated tests into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, automated UI and API validation with Playwright, Cypress, REST, and GraphQL, and defined JMeter performance testing to identify bottlenecks. I also validate C#/.NET distributed systems, container behavior, Kubernetes pod scaling, and production releases through smoke testing.

I operationalize AI-assisted QA workflows with Cursor and LLMs for test generation, debugging, code explanation, and test-design refinement, improving automation engineering productivity.

Quality Assurance Engineer (QAE) Amazon E-Commerce

I led QA and end-to-end test strategy for high-visibility Amazon Brazil launches, including FBA, 3P Sellers, Retail, and Prime Subscription. I acted as the final technical quality gate, communicated technical risk to cross-functional stakeholders, and made clear release go/no-go recommendations.

For the FBA Regular Regime initiative, which generated R$20 million per month, I proposed and executed a phased launch strategy that enabled 80% of sellers to launch on time through tax-code prioritization and API automation. I also optimized compliance testing for 27 FC Commingled launches, eliminating unnecessary full-suite runs when unaffected services had not changed.

I planned and executed validation across distributed, multi-service systems in test and production environments. I maintained Java and Kotlin BDD scenarios using Gherkin and Cucumber, collaborated with Product, TPM, Tax, Accounting, and Engineering teams, mentored QA staff and interns, and supported production incident response.

Quality Assurance PagSeguro / UOL

I tested payment-processing systems and financial transaction flows in a regulated financial environment. I validated integrations among acquirers, APIs, SAP systems, payments, inventory, retail, invoicing, logistics, and marketplace platforms.

I designed and implemented test automation solutions using Java, Python, AWS, and Cucumber. I performed API, web, and mobile testing for checkout systems, developed automated regression coverage, and worked in Agile Scrum and Kanban environments.

I helped accelerate validation of financial transactions by automating API tests for new microservices, contributing to improved performance and reduced release risk.

AI QA Engineer (Project-Based) LLM DeepEval

I designed and built a pytest and DeepEval framework for automated evaluation of locally hosted LLMs through LM Studio. The framework measures 11 quality and safety dimensions, including answer relevancy, faithfulness, RAG groundedness, hallucination, bias, toxicity, prompt injection, jailbreak resistance, prompt alignment, PII leakage, summarization quality, and multilingual safety.

I established quantitative score thresholds, pass/fail criteria, and metric-level reasoning to provide evidence-based assessments of AI reliability. I implemented a separate judge-model architecture through Ollama to mitigate self-evaluation bias and created custom GEval metrics for jailbreaks disguised as fiction or roleplay.

I also built a reporting pipeline that produces HTML, JSON, and CSV outputs with scores, thresholds, reasoning, evaluation models, and latency percentiles. The framework uses pytest-xdist for parallel execution and automatic worker-result merging.

QA Automation Engineer (Project-Based) BestPromo

I built an automated mobile test suite for a React Native Expo application across Android and iOS. I implemented Appium and WebdriverIO coverage, declarative Maestro end-to-end flows, and a GitHub Actions CI pipeline from the first commit.

I performed cross-device and cross-operating-system validation through BrowserStack's real-device cloud and automated web and API coverage with Playwright. I resolved complex CI issues involving Android emulator boot timeouts, disk space, CPU allocation, and iOS XCUITest visibility.

I refactored the automation suite using the Screen Object pattern to improve readability, maintainability, and long-term test scalability.

Education

Learning history

FIAP

MBA, Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

MBA in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

FIAP

MBA, Software Engineering, Service-Oriented Architecture

MBA in Software Engineering and Service-Oriented Architecture.

UNIDERP

B.S. in Computer Science, Computer Science

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

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