About

Enrique Matta-Rodriguez is a Senior Software Engineer in Test at grid.ai with over ten years of experience in software test automation in various languages and environments. He is a Software Development Engineer with a passion for full continuous integration/delivery with easy pushes to staging and production. He has an expert working knowledge of how testing is involved in the Software Development/Testing Lifecycle and experience in creating new greenfield test frameworks for integration and end to end. Enrique has nurtured a quality culture by continuously educating developers and leads about modern testing principles, QAOPS/DevTestops, introduction to training materials, and 1:1 quality coaching with all developers around testing. He introduced daily releases through Github Actions with post-release validations through acceptance testing. He created an end-to-end test framework written in Node.js and Cypress that executes against a live and ephemeral environment of their service with reporting sent to Cypress Dashboard. He has also worked on SOC2 Compliance with their People Team. Enrique has managed two contractors in achieving quality-related tasks in an agile environment, achieving full CI-CD daily deployments. He has also created dashboard visualizations for flaky and failing tests across various frameworks and a ChatOps operated pipeline with Github Actions to help deploy and tear down ephemeral environments based on branches under test. In his past roles, Enrique worked as a Senior Software Development Engineer Test at Knock and a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer at Cowbell. He has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Business Administration and Management, General from Webster University and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Information Systems from DeVry University. Enrique's tech stack includes test, SDET, Software Engineer, AI, Integration, Javascript, NodeJS, CI/CD, Mobile, Docker, Jenkins, Microservices, MySQL, iOS, qa, and ui. He has 9.77 years of relevant experience in the field.