Miguel A. Alonso

Miguel A. Alonso Pérez

Senior Architect & QA Agile Lead

Professional Summary

  • Over 17 years in Information Technology with extensive experience in telecommunications and banking.
  • Strong background in agile QA, test automation, agile methodologies, analysis, design and implementation of new technologies.
  • Technical Expertise in Scrum, Kanban, BDD, ATDD, Testing Automation, Mobile, EAI, CRM.
  • Languages: Spanish; English – Cambridge First Certificate.

Areas of Expertise

  • Agile QA
  • Project Manager & Director
  • Analysis & Systems Development
  • Mobile application development
  • Functional Design
  • Continuous Integration
  • BDD - Behaviour-Driven Development
  • Atomated testing
  • CRM
  • EAI
  • Certified Scrum Master

Work Experience

Sopra Steria

Senior Architect & QA Lead

Jan 2017 – Present

After 15 years working for the samw company, I felt that it was time to take a new path in a decided bet for myself, and for my skils. I leave my comfort zone, to undertake a new challenge as Senior Arquitect | QA Lead ina a top company, which will allow relaunch my career in search of greater challenges. In this new role, I will collaborate helping define the QA solutions profolio, contributing my knowledge and experience in this area to our clients, as well as new potential customers, complementing the wide range of digital solutions that Sopra Steria offers.

CGI

Consultant, Developer & Consulting Services Director

June 2001 – Dec 2016

Joined CGI as a consultant and developer in 2001, promoted to Senior Consultant in 209 and afterwards promoted to Consulting Service Director in 2014 with greater responsibilities and challenges in business development and project management. Apply knowledge and expertise to understanding project requirements, and in providing appropriate solutions to ensure client expectations are being met.

Developer

January 2000 – June 2001

Began as CRM and Integration developer for a major spanish consulting company.

Projects

Model Bank, ING

Jan 2017 - Present

As a QA Enabler, developing a Agile ATDD framework, for enablig ATDD Methodology and Test Automation, ensuring traceability between acceptance criteria, development and automated/manual test. Also help applying best practices among delivery teams, and enabling tools and procedures in collaboration with devops team.

Cells-GloMo, BBVA

February 2016 – Dec 2016

Providing technical expertise to the Global Front Core Team in supporting definition team to embrace BDD-style especification and Continuous Ingetragion methodologies, and developing tools and automated test to ensure e2e quality for new mobile architecture based on new tools including Polymer, Node.js, cucumber-js, Appium, Selenium.

Implant TI South America, BBVA

March 2014 – Feburary/2016

In addition to working as Consulting Services Director, also collaborated on the introduction of agile development methodologies oriented to mobile applications development specializing in Continuous Integration and BDD, with tools including Jenkins, Atlassian Bamboo, Atlassian Stash, Cucumber, Appium, Calaba.sh. Goal was to facilitate the implementation of these methodologies in different countries while adapting the new application in Spain.

Innovation Department Mobility Office, BBVA

January 2013 – March 2014

Provided technical knowledge and support to the BBVA Spain Mobile Application Business and Design Department in the functional definition and design of a new mobile user application by applying agile development methodologies including Scrum, and Continuous Delivery BDD. The technological environment included Android, iOS, Cucumber, and Calaba.sh. The design was extremely successful and has won numerous awards and commendations.

South America Mobile Team, BBVA

February 2012 – January 2013

Expand BBVA corporate image in South America (Colombia, Venezuela, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Peru) by converting its functionality to a mobile application which improved the functional design, and ultimately the mobile application user experience. Also acted as intermediary between the different countries and development teams to ensure project success. Technical environment included Android, iOS, Blackberry, and Windows Phone.

VF ES Provision Solutions Team, IBM

September 2010 - February 2012

Assisted Vodafone in identifying functional and technical requirements, and designing high level technical solution for new products.

VF ES Provision Evolution Team, IBM

March 2009 - September 2010

Created documentation regarding VF business rules and presented this information to VF teams to improve business processes. Assisted Siebel Macro-design Team in defining solutions to these business processes.

VF ES Quotations Team, IBM

July 2007 - March 2009

Assisted Vodafone in identifying functional and technical requirements for new products, and worked alongside IBM teams in developing a high level design.

Products Team, Vodafone

August 2004 - July 2007

Designed, developed, tested, and managed CRM and Middleware projects. Technical Environment included TIBCO, Java, UNIX, Clarify, C, Tuxedo, Unix, Arbor API, and Sybase.

Intranet Portal Maintenance, Vodafone

June 2004 - August 2004

Identified problems and investigated and implemented solutions for Vodafone Spain Portal Intranet rating system. Technical Environment included Portal Intranet, Java, and Unix Shell.

Arbor Catalogue, Vodafone

October 2003 - June 2004

Performed analysis and design of a web application to enable Vodafone teams to query online product catalogues and pricing. Technical Environment included WebLogic 6.5 y 7.0, Java, J2EE, Jsp, Javascript, Sybase, Clarify, Arbor BP, and Sybase.

Revenue Assurance. Control System, Vodafone

September 2002 - October 2003

Performed detailed design, development, system testing, and technical support. Technical Environment included Perl, Unix, C, XML, XSL, XSP, Cocoon, Tomcat, Weblogic 5.5 y 6.5, Java, J2EE, Javascript, Oracle 8i.

CRM Middleware & Clarify, Vodafone

January 2000 - September 2002

Performed analysis, design, development, testing and technical support. Technical Environment: Clarify, Tuxedo, C, Clearbasic, Unix, Unix Shell, Sybase.

Key Skills

  • Quality assurance
  • Quality enablement
  • Testing automation
  • Agile
  • Continous integration
  • Digital transformation
  • Scrum master
  • Telecommunications
  • Banking
  • Consulting
  • CRM
  • EAI
  • Mobile
  • Project management
  • Customer relationship
  • Requirement analysis
  • Development

Certifications

Expert Scrum Foundations

EuropeanScrum.org, January 2016

Cambridge English FIRST Certificate at Grade C (CEFR B2 Level)

Cambridge English Language Assessment, September 2015

Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4

Sun Microsystems

Technologies

  • Selenium
  • Appium
  • git
  • node.js
  • cucumber
  • cucumber.js
  • cucumber-jvm
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Calaba.sh
  • Atalssian Bamboo
  • Atalssian Jira
  • Atalssian Stash
  • TIBCO
  • Weblogic
  • Tuxedo
  • Siebel
  • Portal Infranet
  • Arbor
  • Clarify
  • C
  • C++
  • Java
  • Javascript
  • Perl
  • Ruby
  • Shell
  • Unix
  • Oracle
  • Sybase
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • XML

Education

Bachelor in Business Science

Universidad de Oviedo

University Degree in Business Administration & Management (final year)

Universidad Isabel I de Castilla