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Florent H.

Software Test Automation Engineer

€500/day
München, DE
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Florent

Cypress & TypeScript Test Automation Consultant | 7+ Years | Digital Health · Industrial IoT · Automotive AI

I help engineering teams that are shipping fast but bleeding quality. If your regression suite takes days, your CI pipeline is slow, your tests are flaky, or you simply don't have automation yet, that's exactly what I fix.

How I typically work with clients:

Alongside my full-time role, I take on focused, project-based consulting engagements, usually 8 to 10 hours per week, fully async and remote. This setup works well for teams that need senior-level automation expertise without committing to a full-time hire. Typical projects include:

→ Setting up a Cypress or Playwright framework from scratch: architecture, page objects, CI integration, the full stack.
→ Auditing and fixing an existing test suite: eliminating flakiness, speeding up pipelines, improving coverage strategy.
→ Building API contract tests to catch breaking changes before they reach production.
→ Designing QA processes for teams scaling from startup to structured delivery.
→ CI/CD pipeline optimization: parallelization, sharding, caching, and change-aware test selection.
→ Mentoring junior QA engineers and helping teams adopt testing best practices.

Who benefits most from working with me:

→ Engineering teams that need automation set up properly the first time, not hacked together and rewritten six months later.
→ Startups and scaleups preparing for a major release or funding round and needing confidence in their product quality.
→ Product teams with an existing test suite that's slow, flaky, or not catching real bugs.
→ Companies in regulated industries (health, automotive, fintech) that need someone who understands compliance-aware testing.

Let's talk if quality is costing you speed or confidence. Send me a short description of what you need, and I'll get back to you within 24 hours.
  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Conversational

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Carsync
    Test Automation Engineer
    TECH
    June 2025 - Today (1 year)
    Munich, Germany
    • Own end-to-end QA for embedded AI features in the automotive product, covering edge-case behavior across ECO
    • Designed the manual and automated test split for new AI modules feeding the daily smoke and weekly full-regression runs.
    Regression testing Smoke testing Test Automation
  • NETZSCH PROCESS INTELLIGENCE GMBH
    Software Quality Assurance Engineer
    AUTOMOBILE
    April 2023 - June 2025 (2 years and 2 months)
    Munich, BY, Germany
    • Owned the full QA lifecycle as the sole QA engineer on sensXPERT, NETZSCH's process intelligence platform, spanning test strategy, framework architecture, release sign-off, and stakeholder reporting.
    • Built a Cypress + TypeScript automation framework from scratch, scaling it to 620+ tests over two years while keeping CI feedback under 12 minutes through parallelization and sharding.
    • Cut CI pipeline runtime from 38 to 11 minutes by re-architecting the Azure DevOps pipeline with matrixed shards, dependency caching, and change-aware test selection.
    • Drove flake rate from 18% down to under 3% through deterministic selectors, network-mock isolation, retry budgeting, and per-suite quarantine.
    • Reduced production defect leakage by 35% across two major releases by introducing requirements traceability matrices, exploratory charters, and risk-based release sign-off; most of the gain came from process improvements, not additional tests.
    • Raised code coverage on critical backend services from 42% to 78%, with instrumentation wired directly into the pipeline. Conducted performance and load testing on the same services using K6.
    • Defined and rolled out QA standards including test naming, page-object structure, defect lifecycle, and release-readiness checklists, adopted across three engineering squads.
    • Implemented structured defect tracking and severity assessment in Azure, contributing to a 20% increase in team productivity.
    • Scheduled cron-driven nightly regression and on-demand pre-deploy runs in Azure DevOps; the pre-deploy path cut hotfix cycle time by approximately 40%.
    • Performed API testing with Postman, validating integrations and ensuring backend consistency across services.
    • Managed full release-cycle validation, including pre-release checks and post-deployment verification.
    • Collaborated with developers, DevOps, and product owners on quality gates, release readiness, and continuous QA process improvement.
    Cypress.io Regression testing Docker GitHub Gitlab
  • OTTONOVA HOLDINGS
    Software Quality Assurance Engineer
    HEALTH AND WELLNESS
    April 2021 - April 2023 (2 years)
    Munich, BY, Germany
    • Served as QA engineer on a GDPR-regulated digital health insurance product, working across UI, backend, and end-to-end flows in close partnership with developers and product owners.
    • Contributed to and expanded an existing Cypress (JavaScript) automation suite, helping grow it from roughly 100 tests to 350+ covering UI, backend, and end-to-end flows.
    • Cut the major-release regression cycle from two days of manual work to under two hours by automating the highest-leverage flows first and parallelizing the suite.
    • Wrote and executed manual test cases covering functional, edge-case, and UI/UX scenarios; ran daily smoke checks on critical user journeys to catch regressions before release.
    • Performed API testing with Postman, validating integrations and backend data integrity across services.
    • Tracked and triaged defects in Jira; the resulting reduction in customer-facing regressions contributed to measurable improvements in app store reviews and customer satisfaction scores.
    • Partnered with developers on testability improvements such as data-attributes, deterministic seeding, and network mocks that made the automation suite significantly more reliable.
    • Integrated tests into the CI/CD pipeline for automated build validation; supported pre-release checks and post-deployment verification on every major release.
    • Collaborated cross-functionally with QA peers, developers, DevOps, and product owners on quality gates, release readiness, and continuous QA process improvement.
    • Provided regular status updates to stakeholders, keeping delivery timelines and product goals aligned.
    Cypress.io Regression testing Gitlab CI/CD CI/CD Management JavaScript

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Education

  • Master of Science in Information Technology
    Passau University
    2024
    Master of Information Technology
  • Bachelor of Science in Information Technology
    Ghana Technology University College
    2019
    Bachelor of Information Technology

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