Elio Navarrete

Elio Navarrete

QA Lead · Professor · Author

Lima, Peru

About

QA Lead at OpenLoop with over 10 years of experience in quality engineering across e-commerce, digital platforms and enterprise products. Specialist in test automation architecture using Playwright, Cypress and Serenity BDD, with a strong foundation in ISTQB methodologies.

Professor at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) teaching Software Quality Engineering. Published author of a comprehensive QA book on Amazon and researcher with 4 IEEE conference papers on applied AI in education and health.

Passionate about American billiards — 8-ball, 9-ball and 10-ball.

Experience

2025.10 — Present

QA Lead

OpenLoop

Leading quality engineering initiatives across product delivery. Defining automation strategy, CI/CD quality gates, and team enablement processes.

2022.9 — 2025.10

Senior QA Engineer

Belcorp

Led automation and strategy for e-commerce platforms. Implemented Serenity BDD frameworks, API contract testing, and CI/CD pipeline integration with quality gates.

2020.3 — 2022.9

QA Engineer

Belcorp

End-to-end testing for digital platform and e-commerce applications. Built test automation foundations and quality processes from scratch.

2020 — Present

Professor

Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)

Teaching Software Quality Engineering to undergraduate students. Bridging industry practices with academic foundations in testing, automation and quality assurance.

Education

Engineer's Degree, Software Engineering

Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC)

Diploma of Study in Management, Improvement and Redesign of Processes

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) — 2020

Introduction to R & Anomaly Detection

Universidad Austral, Buenos Aires — 2025

Information Systems Academic Week

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana — 2023

Computer Information Systems

Universidade Anhembi Morumbi — 2012

Certifications

ISTQB Advanced Level — Test Automation Engineering v2.0

ISTQB — ID 25-CTAL-TAE v2-261512-81

ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) 4.0

ISTQB — ID 25-CTFL 4-259589-12

CIP Licensed Engineer

Colegio de Ingenieros del Perú — ID 243791

Scrum Master Certified (SMC)

Scrum Alliance — ID 928700

Publications

Book

2026
Quality Assurance: De Fundamentos a Automatización con Herramientas e Inteligencia Artificial

Amazon — Kindle & Paperback — 144 pages

IEEE Conference Papers

July 2025
Mobile Application for Managing Anxiety using Machine Learning Model

IEEE AICCONF 2025 — 3rd Cognitive Models and Artificial Intelligence Conference

July 2025
A Cognitive AI Model Using Deep & Cross Network for Personalized Gamified Recommendations to Promote Healthy Eating Decisions among University Students

IEEE AICCONF 2025 — 3rd Cognitive Models and Artificial Intelligence Conference

July 2025
Eat4U: Calorie Management Based on Predictive Machine Learning Models and Instance Segmentation for University Students in Metropolitan Lima

IEEE AICCONF 2025 — 3rd Cognitive Models and Artificial Intelligence Conference

Jan 2026
A Novel Framework for Intuitive E-commerce Design: Leveraging Large Language Models to Translate User Commands into Functional Code

IEEE ISCMI 2025 — 12th International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence

Jan 2026
Sort ARgorithm: An Innovative AR-Based Approach to Teaching Sorting Algorithms in Higher Education

IEEE ICALTER 2025 — 5th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies on Education & Research

Jan 2025
Vik's Adventures: Enhancing Mathematical Learning in Secondary School Students Through a Serious Game Integrated with a Deep Learning Model

IEEE ICALTER 2024 — 4th International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies for Education and Research

View all on ORCID

Skills

Automation

PlaywrightCypressSerenity BDDSelenium

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptJavaPython

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsJenkinsSonarQube

API Testing

PostmanREST AssuredSupertestPact

Frameworks

Page Object ModelScreenplay PatternBDD

Tools

JiraGitDockerAWS

Awards & Recognition

2024

Finalist — CIP Project Competition 2024

College of Engineers of Peru (CIP)

2023

Third Place — Young Engineer Competition 2023

College of Engineers of Peru (CIP)

2024

Speaker — 4th International Conference on Advanced Technologies in Education

UNAAT

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