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Fernando Cobos

Telecommunication engineer

Telecommunications Engineer with 10+ years of experience in QA automation, QA architecture, system integration, E2E validation, CI/CD, observability, and release readiness across complex distributed video platforms.

Strong background designing QA strategies and automation frameworks from scratch, including quality gates, traceability models, reporting workflows, KPIs, logs, and validation processes for APIs, backend services, devices, and infrastructure. Recently involved in AI-related feature demos and validation activities.

Skills

Skills

  • 100%

    Team Work

  • 90%

    Leader

  • 90%

    Docker

  • 95%

    Kibana

  • 90%

    Python

  • 85%

    Creativity

  • 80%

    Analytical

  • 95%

    Decisive

  • 95%

    Ansible

  • 95%

    Communication

  • 85%

    Practicality

  • 100%

    Friendly

Work
Experience
Resume

Work
Experience
Resume

  • Unisys AENA
    2013-2014

    Communications Intern

    Unisys | Madrid, Spain | Oct 2013 - Jun 2014

    • Resolved Cisco/HP network incidents across routers, switches, and firewalls, helping ensure 99.9% AENA uptime.
  • TID Campus Telefónica
    2014-2015

    Service Management Intern - Global Video Platform (GVP)

    Telefonica I+D | Madrid, Spain | Nov 2014 - Jun 2015

    • Facilitated service management operations and follow-up tasks for the Global Video Platform.
    • Assisted with incident coordination, reporting, and SLAs within the video platform environment.

    Monitoring Tools Intern - Global Video Unit (GVU)

    Telefonica I+D | Madrid, Spain | Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

    • Supported the development and maintenance of monitoring tools and IT activities for the Global Video Unit.
    • Assisted operational tooling tasks aimed at improving service visibility and day-to-day support.
    • Implemented CI/CD with Puppet/YAML via GitOps using GitLab and Bitbucket, and enhanced debugging through Splunk logs.
  • USTGlobal Telefónica
    2015 - 2017

    Monitoring Tools & KPI Engineer

    TCP, a UST Global Company (Client: Telefonica I+D) | Madrid, Spain | Nov 2015 - Apr 2017

    • Engaged in technical validation, troubleshooting, and service support for diverse platform layers.
    • Worked with engineering and operations teams on deployment support, environment stability, and platform continuity.
    • Architected high-availability Graphite monitoring systems, ensuring 24/7 streaming error tracking.
    • Led Witbe CPE/OTT testing, optimizing zapping time and Video Quality (QoE) KPIs for seamless streaming.
    • Configured Zabbix monitoring and alerts, reducing HA systems incident response time by 30%.
  • Optiva Media
    2017 - 2017

    Optiva Media - QA Automation Engineer

    Optiva Media (Client: Liberty Global) | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Mar 2017 - Dec 2017

    • Developed E2E test case scripts for web with Selenium, devices, and backend APIs with Postman, increasing release reliability.
    • Planned and executed regression, release validation, and RCA across full-stack layers, reducing critical bugs.
    • Collaborated with development teams to guarantee 100% E2E coverage, issue reproduction, and quality assurance workflows.
    • Drove regression testing and defect analysis across agile deliveries, ensuring stable releases.
    • Validated seamless CPE firmware upgrades (ACS), backend APIs, microservices, and internal tools.
    • Contributed to stable releases through automated, exploratory, and API validation with cross-layer troubleshooting.
  • Liberty Global
    2018 - 2025

    Senior Integration & QA Engineer

    Liberty Global | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Jan 2024 – Oct 2025

    • Ensure QA Coverage across 3 environments, 5 countries, multiples devices, maintaining end-to-end platform stability.
    • Architected an in-house Video Experience Lab from scratch, covering all E2E environments, tenants, and devices.
    • Designed Jira dashboards and validations reports, reducing manual reporting time by 40%.
    • Proactively monitored fix versions and critical updates, preventing bottlenecks and minimizing platform release delays.
    • Prevented lost tracking by mapping new features/devices to XTestPlans, guaranteeing 100% E2E traceability.
    • Automated Wiki release reports (PUS, TUS, Bugs) via Jira integration, accelerating management decisions.
    • Drove strategic decisions and platform reliability via KPI analysis using Grafana, Kibana, and Looker.
    • Supported AI-driven product validation and demos (Super Search) for new user-facing intelligent search capabilities.

    Integration & QA Automation Engineer

    Liberty Global | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Jan 2018 – Dec 2023

    • Engineered HA QA network infra for CPE/OTT across multiple environments, tenants and devices.
    • Integrated deployments and rollbacks in CI/CD via Jenkins and Ansible, cutting downtime by 35%.
    • Maintained uptime for containerized environments across Linux, Docker Swarm, RabbitMQ Cluster & MySQL.
    • Architected and integrated E2E testing frameworks via RobotFramework for CPE (IPTV/OTT).
    • Managed infrastructure, networks, and deployment pipelines for QA framework releases (CPE/APPs).
    • Accelerated incident resolution (MTTR) by 25% leveraging Elasticsearch logs and Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
    • Component Owner for Obelix (HDMI capture, IR, PDU, DNS, DHCP, Routing), enabling E2E video QA monitoring.
    • Led 12-engineer Agile QA team in Jira, boosting sprint delivery efficiency and overall quality.
    • Automated E2E reporting workflows utilizing Python scripts, ELK stack, Jira, Wiki, and auto-notifications.
    • Reduced flaky tests & false positives by optimizing test reliability via Kibana and Mocha deep-dive log analysis.

SAN PABLO CEU UNIVERSITY, MADRID

2007 - 2014

Telecommunication Engineer. Final degree project with honors: Geolocation with Arduino

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE, LONDON

Summer 2007

ELC, BOSTON MA

Summer 2012

COLEGIO SAN PABLO CEU, MADRID

2003 - 2007

COLEGIO LOS SAUCES, MADRID

1995 - 2003

Address: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Phone Number: +34 696 569 213

E-Mail: Contacto@fernandocobos.es