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Hi, I'm Kaio Garcia

Senior QA Engineer & Quality Engineering Leader

Building scalable test automation frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, and high-performance strategies that prevent defects instead of just finding them. 10+ years of driving engineering velocity with quality-first principles.

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"Quality is not an act, it's a habit."
— Aristotle

What I Do

Framework Architecture

Designing scalable, maintainable test frameworks from scratch using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium, and WebdriverIO.

Contract Testing

Implementing Pact contract validations and automated Schemathesis schemas to secure integration layers and prevent regressions.

CI/CD Quality Gates

Configuring build gates (Lint → Unit → Contract → Integration → E2E → Load) using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Docker.

Performance Engineering

Conducting JMeter and k6 load tests, baseline creation, and monitoring metrics with Grafana/Prometheus to satisfy SLIs/SLOs.

Security Testing

Validating APIs and web layers against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities via OWASP ZAP, manual pentesting, and SQLi proof-of-concepts.

Tech Stack & Expertise

Playwright

E2E & API Automation

Cypress

Frontend Testing

Selenium

Web Driver Standards

WebdriverIO

Next-gen Test Runner

Robot Framework

Keyword-driven Automation

Pact

Consumer-Driven Contract Testing

Postman

Manual & Scripted API Testing

Schemathesis

OpenAPI Schema Validation

REST Assured

Java API Automation

SuperTest

HTTP Assertions

JMeter

Enterprise Load Testing

k6

Modern Load Testing as Code

LoadRunner

Legacy Performance Testing

Lighthouse

Page Performance Metrics

Grafana & Prometheus

Metrics Monitoring & Dashboards

Appium

Native Mobile Automation

BrowserStack

Cloud Device Lab Orchestration

TestFlight

iOS Beta Distribution

Detox

Grey-Box Mobile Testing

OWASP ZAP

Automated Vulnerability Scans

Burp Suite

Manual Web Penetration Testing

SQLMap

Injection Attack Exploitation PoCs

DVWA

Intentionally Vulnerable Lab Environment

GitHub Actions

Modern CI/CD Workflows

GitLab CI

Integrated Pipelines

Jenkins

Automation Servers

Docker

Containerization standards

Docker Compose

Multi-Container Orchestration

TypeScript

Strongly Typed JavaScript

JavaScript

Dynamic Web Development

Python

Automation scripts & Pytest

C#

Unity Scripting & .NET Testing

SQL

Data Assertions & Manipulation

Bash

Pipeline scripting

Unity

2D/3D Indie Development

Unreal Engine

Blueprints & Game Systems

Godot

Open-source game engine

Game Design

Level Design & GameJams

Bughunter

QA Playtesting & Defect Discovery

Featured Portfolio Repositories

E2E Automation
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Kaio-QA-portfolio-playwright

Complete Playwright + JS automation framework featuring Page Object Models (POM), custom HTML reporters, global setup/cleanup, parallel test execution, and CI/CD pipelines targeting the AutomationExercise demo e-commerce site.

Playwright JavaScript GitHub Actions POM
API Testing
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Kaio-QA-portfolio-API-testing

API validation suite written in Playwright and TypeScript with Postman verification scripts, performing automated CRUD operations and JSON schema validation against the public JSONPlaceholder API.

Playwright TypeScript Postman JSON Schema
AI-Powered QA
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Kaio-QA-portfolio-playwright-AI-testing

Experimental framework implementing Groq AI and LLM APIs to generate dynamic test selectors, generate smart mock data, analyze test failures automatically, and offer self-healing script capabilities.

Python Playwright Groq AI Pytest
Web UI automation
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Kaio-QA-portfolio-selenium

Solid architectural demonstration using JavaScript, Mocha, and Chai to run automated tests with vanilla Selenium WebDriver on the standard SauceDemo benchmark portal.

JavaScript Selenium Mocha Chai
Performance
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Kaio-QA-portfolio-performance-test-jmeter

Automated JMeter XML load testing suites integrating performance baseline monitoring, throughput validations, error threshold gates, and comprehensive HTML reporting.

JMeter XML Performance Load Testing
Security / Pentest
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Kaio-QA-portfolio-pentest-dvwa-sql-injection

Vulnerability demonstration suite showing UNION-based SQL injections, manual PoCs written in Python, OWASP ZAP configurations, and developer remediation guidelines inside a DVWA environment.

Python DVWA OWASP ZAP SQL Injection

Certifications & Education

2014 UNIGRANRIO

Technology Degree in Digital Games Development

Academic foundation covering game engines, level design principles, scripting systems, logic architectures, and QA playtesting methodologies.

2022 Alura

Test Planning and Bug Life Cycle

Professional specialization focusing on test strategy definition, exploratory testing guidelines, bug prioritization, and defect life cycle administration.

2022 Alura

Git and Github: Control and Share Your Code

Deep dive covering standard git commands, branch orchestration, merge conflict resolution, collaboration strategies, and repository management.

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