Quality across complex systems
Joaquín Gañán
Senior QA Engineer
I turn release risk into confident decisions.
Senior QA Engineer with 7+ years of experience leading quality across enterprise programs, web and mobile products, REST APIs, and interconnected backend systems.

Project impact
Newtech SRL · Verizon contractor · 2019 - 2024
Expertise
Quality from strategy to production.
Quality strategy
Risk-led planning, estimation, test design, UAT, defect triage, and evidence-based release decisions.
Backend & integration
REST API validation, SQL data checks, and end-to-end coverage across modern and legacy systems.
Automation & CI
Pragmatic Playwright coverage and delivery checks that reinforce thoughtful manual and exploratory testing.
Experience
Enterprise scale. Hands-on depth.
Software Testing Analyst
Thryv DominicanaQuality ownership for integrated web applications, API validation, accessibility, Playwright maintenance, and release readiness.
QA Program Lead / QA Project Manager
Newtech SRL · Verizon contractorLed QA across 20+ connected applications, teams of 6-10 analysts, 100+ stakeholders, and 36+ releases per year.
Software QA Analyst
Applaudo StudiosManual and exploratory QA across distributed Agile teams delivering web and mobile products.
Earlier: Supervisor & Quality Analyst · Visionary Solutions FTZ · 2017 - 2019
Selected work
Evidence over buzzwords.
Public automation project
Self-testing QA Portfolio
A production portfolio paired with a server-triggered Playwright framework, live CI evidence, secure dispatch, and cross-browser validation.
AI-built system · human QA
Agentic Finance Tracker
An AI-built Apps Script system that turns bank email alerts into a Google Sheets dashboard with daily and monthly summaries, and tracks investments from broker emails with live prices and real returns. I owned the QA: real-data exploratory testing, evidence-backed defects, release verification, and a CI-run regression suite.
Public automation project
M4PP Playwright Automation Suite
End-to-end and API coverage for authentication, interactive canvas behavior, access control, and backend integrations.
Anonymized case snapshot
Integrated Release Assurance
A risk-led QA operating model connecting dependencies across 20+ applications with evidence-based go/no-go recommendations.
QA Automation Lab
Live QA LabThis portfolio tests itself.
Run the production Playwright suite and inspect its latest CI evidence.
Toolbox & education
Hands-on where the evidence lives.
Testing
Manual · Functional · Regression · Exploratory · Integration · E2E · UAT · Mobile
API & data
Postman · REST APIs · JSON · SQL · Chrome DevTools · curl · Linux CLI
Delivery
Playwright · JavaScript · Git · GitHub Actions · Jenkins · Jira · Xray · Zephyr
B.S. Computer Systems Engineering · Universidad APEC (UNAPEC)
Spanish - Native · English - Full professional proficiency
Let’s work together
Let’s build reliable software.
I’m open to remote Senior and Mid-level QA opportunities across the US, LATAM, and Europe.