Summary
Héctor Vega is an experienced SDET with nine years blending QA automation, teaching, and people-first backgrounds to improve hiring and product quality. He designs and leads test strategies and migrations (notably from Cypress to Playwright) for startups and regulated healthcare projects, building robust UI, API, and visual test suites across Playwright, Selenium, Pytest and Cypress. As a former HR professional turned educator, he has taught and mentored hundreds of students, produced 50+ recorded lessons, and earned top tutor ratings for instructional design and student satisfaction. Comfortable as an individual contributor and team lead, he’s delivered testing roadmaps, managed Jira boards, and reduced flakiness in distributed teams. Based in La Paz, Mexico, Héctor pairs a business degree and software engineering training with a pragmatic curiosity—outside work he’s a videogame and craft beer enthusiast who channels community engagement into continuous learning and better QA outcomes.
10 years of coding experience