Vladimir Lazar
Senior Software QA Engineer at Red Hat
Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolVladimir Lazar is a Senior Software QA Engineer with around a decade of hands-on experience and four years in focused QA roles, currently at Red Hat in Málaga. He combines deep expertise in both manual and automated testing with a strong background in embedded automotive systems and recent leadership validating complex trading and risk platforms for a major hedge fund. Comfortable as an individual contributor or team lead, he has built testing frameworks, CI-friendly tooling, and processes from scratch using C#, Typescript, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium and related stacks. Vladimir is practiced at stakeholder communication across technical and executive levels, driving release approvals and mentoring teams to improve test coverage and quality. Beyond standard QA duties he has repeatedly bridged gaps between development, product and operations—whether implementing APIs for system tests in automotive infotainment or standardizing validation for financial software—bringing pragmatic engineering discipline to validation.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Matematică și informatică, Bachelor of Science (BS), Matematică și informatică at Universitatea din BucureștiColegiul National Aurel Vlaicu
Romanian, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
podman10
kubernetes10
container10
docker10
disk-image10
linux10
e2e-test9
ai9
oci-container9
redhat8
firefox8
nextflow-tower8
testing8
javascript7
bioinformatics7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cbr7/podman-desktop
Jan 2024 - Aug 2025
Podman Desktop - A graphical tool for developing on containers and Kubernetes
Contributions:4 PRs, 296 pushes, 79 branches in 1 year 7 months
kubernetespodman
cbr7/podman-desktop-extension-ai-lab
Oct 2024 - Jul 2025
Work with LLMs on a local environment using containers
Contributions:111 pushes, 26 branches in 9 months
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