test.describe('Bruno Bacelar', () =>
Senior QA Automation Architect. Twenty years in software, the last eight building the test frameworks that catch failures before your users do. Playwright, Cypress, TypeScript, and lately, AI that writes tests with me.
Running 7 tests using 1 worker
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test.describe('selected work')
Four engagements. Hover a card to see its trace: how each project moved from audit to green.
MCAP · Framework rearchitecture
passedCanada's largest independent mortgage finance company had a test suite splitting at the seams across lender brands. I rearchitected it into a single multi-lender Cypress framework: shared specs, per-lender configuration, hundreds of tests stabilized and running in Azure DevOps on every merge.
GLE · Built from zero
passedGreenfield API automation in .NET 8 with NUnit and xUnit, plus custom Roslyn analyzers that catch violations of the team's own conventions at compile time. The framework reviews your code before your reviewer does.
QA Pilot · Founder project
runningA test case generator that reads your Jira tickets, Azure DevOps work items and GitHub pull requests, then drafts structured test cases on the Claude API. Built because every team I have joined had the same backlog of untested acceptance criteria.
Olea Connects · CTO, Olive Social Impact
runningAs co-founder and CTO I lead the full technical build: Next.js 14, Supabase, auth, payments and member management. A two-person company shipping a real product for organizations that cannot afford enterprise software.
expect(stack).toBeBattleTested()
No percentage bars. A capability either survives production or it does not.
E2E automation
Playwright · Cypress
8 years, from first spec to framework governance
✓ pass
Languages
TypeScript · C# · SQL
Typed everywhere. Untyped test code is a bug factory
✓ pass
API testing
REST · NUnit · xUnit · Postman
Contract-first, environment-agnostic
✓ pass
CI/CD
Azure DevOps · GitHub Actions
Pipelines with quality gates, not decoration
✓ pass
AI in QA
Claude API · test generation · agentic workflows
The part of the stack that did not exist 3 years ago
✓ pass
Mobile
Appium · BDD / Gherkin
Earlier chapter, still in the toolbox
✓ pass
beforeAll('the person')
I wrote my first line of production code in Brazil more than two decades ago. Since then I have been a developer, a consultant, and for the last eight years the person teams call when their test suite is flaky, slow, or missing entirely.
I am based in Canada, work in English and Portuguese, and I am at my best in the gap between engineering and quality: building frameworks developers want to use, not frameworks they route around.
Outside of work I write psychological thrillers under a pen name. It turns out that hunting plot holes and hunting bugs are the same skill, and I cannot switch either one off.
test('hire bruno', async () => ...)
I take on QA architecture engagements, SDET contract work and advisory on bringing AI into testing workflows. English or Portuguese, remote-first.