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    "name": "Vasco Ferreira",
    "title": "Software QA Engineer · Community Builder · Human",
    "location": "Portugal",
    "email": "vasco.ferreira94@gmail.com",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/vascopferreira/",
    "github": "",
    "website": "",
    "lastUpdated": "February 2026"
  },

  "about": [
    {
      "text": "Electrical engineer turned QA engineer with a genuine passion for data, systems, and the craft of building reliable software. I care about quality at every level — in code, in people, and in experience. Outside of the terminal I search for interesting people and experiences.",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech", "com"]
    },
    {
      "text": "There are a lot of things I would love to do. Some I have already done and would like to keep improving — this is how I keep track.",
      "tags": ["goal"]
    }
  ],

  "experience": [
    {
      "role": "Quality Assurance Engineer",
      "org": "Amadeus",
      "period": "Jun 2023 – Oct 2025",
      "location": "Nice, France",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"],
      "bullets": [
        "Ensured end-to-end quality of the NDCX NDC API platform by defining and executing test plans within a SAFe/Scrum team.",
        "Performed exploratory, functional, and end-to-end testing of airline, GDS and payment integrations via APIs and UI flows.",
        "Designed automated regression tests in Python (internal framework + Robot Framework); reviewed C++ changes to assess testing impact.",
        "Led design and implementation of the CI/CD testing pipeline (Jenkins, BIRD), integrating automated suites into deployments.",
        "Managed user stories, test cases, and defects in Jira and Octane; mentored juniors and contributed to team-wide testing standards."
      ],
      "skills": ["Python", "Robot Framework", "CI/CD", "Jenkins", "API Testing", "SAFe/Scrum"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Software Developer Engineer in Test",
      "org": "Critical Software",
      "period": "Dec 2020 – May 2022",
      "location": "Coimbra, Portugal",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"],
      "bullets": [
        "Functional, integration, and regression testing on embedded software systems for automotive ECUs.",
        "Testing platform for Autonomous Driving (BMW / AUTOSAR) using TDFNext Framework with Hardware-in-Loop (HiL) simulation.",
        "Stack size management for automotive embedded systems — integration of Gliwa T1 for runtime measurements.",
        "Agile environment; collaborated across developers, project managers, and clients to report testing progress and risks."
      ],
      "skills": ["C++", "Embedded Systems", "Automotive ECU", "HiL", "AUTOSAR"]
    }
  ],

  "interships or short period": [
    {
      "role": "Quality Assurance Engineer",
      "org": "Runtime Revolution",
      "period": "Apr 2023 – May 2023",
      "location": "Lisbon, Portugal",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"],
      "bullets": [
        "Browser automation with no-code tools and Python, applying ISTQB techniques to ensure optimal web app functionality.",
        "QA strategy design, Agile methodologies, and efficient bug tracking."
      ],
      "skills": ["Python", "Agile", "ISTQB", "Browser Automation"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Research Assistant – Data Analyst",
      "org": "Institute of Systems and Robotics, Univ. Coimbra",
      "period": "Jun 2019 – Aug 2020",
      "location": "Coimbra, Portugal",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"],
      "bullets": [
        "Applied computer vision and machine learning to recognise and authenticate images using advanced image descriptors.",
        "Technology creates unique stochastic markings to authenticate high-end products — currently deployed in tobacco package stamps.",
        "Extracted forensic features (particles, faces, fingerprints) for use in identity documents. Collaboration with Portugal's National Mint (INCM)."
      ],
      "skills": ["Python", "Computer Vision", "Machine Learning", "OpenCV"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Marketing coordinator",
      "org": "Diva Beauty Center",
      "period": "May 2016 – Nov 2016",
      "location": "Ourém, Portugal",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"],
      "bullets": [
        "Created and managed marketing campaigns, social media content, and website copywriting."
      ],
      "skills": ["Marketing", "Content Creation", "Social Media"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Cultural Department Coordinator",
      "org": "Erasmus Student Network (ESN) Coimbra",
      "period": "Aug 2019 – Jul 2020",
      "location": "Coimbra, Portugal",
      "tags": ["pro", "com"],
      "bullets": [
        "Organised all logistics for trips and events across Portugal for international students — accommodations, transport, activities.",
        "Provided training and onboarding for new members."
      ],
      "skills": ["Event Coordination", "Logistics", "Mentoring", "International Relations"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Web Developer",
      "org": "SPEAK",
      "period": "Aug 2015",
      "location": "Leiria, Portugal",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech", "com"],
      "bullets": [
        "SPEAK is a non-profit organization focused on breaking language barriers between communities by providing a platform for easier integration.",
        "Developed front-end and back-end features on their web application using the OutSystems Platform.",
        "UI improvements in HTML and CSS; collaborated with multidisciplinary teams on project planning."
      ],
      "skills": ["OutSystems", "HTML/CSS"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Vice-President",
      "org": "Board of European Students of Technology (BEST)",
      "period": "Jul 2014 – Sept 2015",
      "location": "Coimbra, Portugal",
      "tags": ["pro", "com"],
      "bullets": [
        "Strategic communication between BEST and its stakeholders: university, companies, students, and media.",
        "Social media content creation, event planning, financial oversight, and organisational governance."
      ],
      "skills": ["Leadership", "Strategy", "Communications", "Governance"]
    }
  ],

  "education": [
    {
      "degree": "Master's — Electrical & Computer Engineering (academic)",
      "school": "University of Coimbra",
      "period": "2018 – 2021",
      "note": "Computer Architecture, Computer Vision, Digital Fabrication, MEMS, High Performance Computing, Real-Time Systems, Systems Engineering.",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"]
    },
    {
      "degree": "Bachelor's — Electrical Engineering",
      "school": "University of Coimbra",
      "period": "2012 – 2018",
      "note": "Comprehensive engineering sciences with hands-on laboratory and project-oriented learning.",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"]
    },
    {
      "degree": "Secondary School — Sciences & Technologies",
      "school": "Centro de Estudos de Fátima",
      "period": "2009 – 2012",
      "note": "Secondary Education Diploma – Science and Technology",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"]
    },
    {
      "degree": "Non-formal Education",
      "school": "Corpo Nacional de Escutas — National Body of the Scout Movement",
      "period": "2001 – 2014",
      "note": "Non-formal education in the Scout Movement rooted in nature, service to local communities, leadership development, outdoor survival, constructive dialogue, and values-driven action.",
      "tags": ["com"]
    }
  ],

  "skills": [
    {
      "group": "Languages",
      "items": ["Python", "C++", "C", "SQL", "HTML/CSS", "CUDA", "Assembly", "VHDL", "Matlab"],
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"]
    },
    {
      "group": "Testing",
      "items": ["Robot Framework", "SOAPUI", "Postman", "ISTQB", "Pytest", "Jenkins", "CI/CD", "Octane"],
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"]
    },
    {
      "group": "Platforms & Tools",
      "items": ["Linux", "Git", "Jira", "Trello", "OutSystems", "Arduino", "Visual Studio", "LaTeX"],
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"]
    },
    {
      "group": "Protocols & Systems",
      "items": ["CAN bus", "FlexRay", "SOME/IP", "Ethernet", "REST API", "AUTOSAR", "HiL", "JSON"],
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"]
    },
    {
      "group": "Soft Skills",
      "items": ["Leadership", "Facilitator", "Events Manager", "Rituals"],
      "tags": ["pro", "com"]
    }
  ],

  "languages": [
    { "name": "Portuguese", "level": "Native",             "pct": 100 },
    { "name": "English",    "level": "Full Professional",  "pct": 95  },
    { "name": "Spanish",    "level": "Full Professional",  "pct": 95  },
    { "name": "French",     "level": "Elementary",         "pct": 30  }
  ],

  "certifications": [
    { "issuer": "ISTQB",    "name": "Certified Tester Foundation Level" },
    { "issuer": "Cambridge & IELTS","name": "FCE — First Certificate in English" }
  ],

  "hobbies": [
    {
      "icon": "🏄",
      "name": "Surfing",
      "note": "Ocean lover. Not sure it likes me back."
    },
    {
      "icon": "🎸",
      "name": "Guitar",
      "note": "Campfire certified."
    },
    {
      "icon": "✍️",
      "name": "Writing & Journaling",
      "note": "Daily journaling practice. Reflective writing, life audits, occasional existential plot twists."
    },
    {
      "icon": "📚",
      "name": "Reading",
      "note": "Philosophy, tech, travel literature, and fiction. Trying to outread my own confusion."
    },
    {
      "icon": "⛺",
      "name": "Camping & Outdoors",
      "note": "14 years as a scout. Mountains, forests, survival skills, and questionable cooking experiments."
    },
    {
      "icon": "✈️",
      "name": "Traveling",
      "note": "Backpack over suitcase, always. Collecting cultures more than souvenirs."
    },
    {
      "icon": "🤿",
      "name": "Diving",
      "note": "Exploring the underwater world and ‘why am I breathing like Darth Vader?’ "
    },
    {
      "icon": "🏂",
      "name": "Snowboarding",
      "note": "Sliding down frozen mountains on purpose."
    },
    {
      "icon": "🏐",
      "name": "Beach Volley",
      "note": "My way of relaxing at the beach."
    },
    {
      "icon": "🧗",
      "name": "Bouldering",
      "note": "Solving rock puzzles one fall at a time."
    }
  ],

  "international": [
    {
      "region": "South America",
      "title": "1-Year Solo Trip",
      "tags": ["pro", "com"],
      "note": "Travelled solo across South America for a full year with a backpack. Immersed in local cultures, languages, and landscapes."
    },
    {
      "region": "Asia",
      "title": "4 Months Backpacking",
      "tags": ["pro", "com"],
      "note": "Another backpacking trip: snowboarding in Japan, diving in the Philippines, surfing in Sri Lanka, partying in Thailand, and eating my way through India."
    },
    {
      "region": "Europe",
      "title": "3 week summer courses",
      "tags": ["pro", "com"],
      "note": "Studying a technology topic with a group of 30 strangers in a European city. Self-driving cars in Ljubljana and Entrepreneurship in Skopje."
    },
    {
      "region": "France",
      "title": "Working abroad for 3 years",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech",  "com"],
      "note": "Living and working abroad in a SaaS multinational company in the travel industry. "
    }
  ],

  "projects": [
    {
      "name": "Robot Telemetry Data App",
      "org": "Side Project",
      "period": "2017",
      "location": "Coimbra",
      "tags": ["pro", "tech"],
      "description": "Application that records telemetry data from mobile robots via TCP/IP connections.",
      "skills": ["Networking", "Embedded Systems"]
    },
    {
      "role": "Competition — European BEST Engineering Competition (EBEC)",
      "org": "Board of European Students of Technology (BEST)",
      "period": "2013 – 2014",
      "location": "Coimbra, Portugal",
      "tags": ["pro", "com"],
      "bullets": [
        "Pan-European student engineering competition. Teams of 4 solve complex technical challenges across local, regional, and European finals."
      ],
      "skills": ["Engineering", "Teamwork", "Problem Solving"]
    }
  ],

  "impossibleList": [
    {
      "bucket": "Water & Ocean",
      "icon": "🌊",
      "tag": ["goal"],
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "Get Open Water certification",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Learned to dive in Malapascua, the Philippines.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Get Advanced Open Water certification",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Got my advanced certification in Gili T, Lombok, Indonesia.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Learn how to surf",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Atlantic waves, Portuguese coast.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Diving in Komodo and Raj Ampat, Indonesia",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Diving in one of the most beautiful places on earth — something I would love to do.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Surf on all continents",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Missing the Americas, Africa, and Oceania.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Learn to kitesurf",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Flying with a board is a childhood dream never fulfilled.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Learn to skate surf",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Land training for the ocean.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Learn how to sail",
          "done": false,
          "note": "A boat and an open horizon. Eventually sail in the Caribbean.",
          "link": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "bucket": "Mountains & Sky",
      "icon": "🏔️",
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "Learn to snowboard",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Learned in France",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Snowboard in Japan",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Accomplished two months ago.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Try paragliding",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Feel the wind, see the world from above.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Watch the Aurora Borealis",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Northern lights somewhere wild.",
          "link": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "bucket": "Pilgrimage & Slow Travel",
      "icon": "🥾",
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "Walk the Camino de Santiago",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Did the Portuguese route. Changed something in me.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Walk the Camino again",
          "done": false,
          "note": "A different route, starting from Eastern Europe.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Do a silent retreat in Nepal",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Vipassana or similar. 10 days of silence.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Do a road trip with a van and a dog",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Experience solitude, reflection, and love while discovering the world.",
          "link": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "bucket": "Music & Creative",
      "icon": "🎵",
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "Learn to play guitar",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Self-taught. More songs than Wonderwall.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Write and compose an original song",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Words and melody, start to finish.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Learn a full song on piano",
          "done": false,
          "note": "One song, played properly.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Start a podcast",
          "done": false,
          "note": "Conversations worth recording.",
          "link": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "bucket": "Languages",
      "icon": "🗣️",
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "Become fluent in Spanish",
          "done": true,
          "note": "A year in South America took care of that.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Learning basic French",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Living in Nice got me to a conversational level — though jokes are still a work in progress.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Read a full book in French",
          "done": false,
          "note": "In progress. Currently reading Changer l'eau des fleurs.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Understand basic Chinese",
          "done": false,
          "note": "One is a start. Two is a habit.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Introduction to Chinese language and culture",
          "done": false,
          "note": "The dream is to one day speak all the official languages of the UN.",
          "link": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "bucket": "Spirituality, Faith and Diversity",
      "icon": "🪷",
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "Try ayahuasca",
          "done": true,
          "note": "One of the most transformative experiences of my life.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Make a friend from each of main faith systems",
          "done": false,
          "note": "In progress. Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, Agnostics, Atheists, and more to come.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Visit and experience a culture in each of the world continents",
          "done": false,
          "note": "In progress. Missing Oceania.",
          "link": ""
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "bucket": "Entrepreneurship",
      "icon": "💡",
      "tag": ["goal"],
      "items": [
        {
          "title": "Volunteer in a community based business",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Spent some time volunteering in a monetisable community to learn.",
          "link": ""
        },
        {
          "title": "Facilitate business development around community building",
          "done": true,
          "note": "Encontrar o meu ikigai",
          "link": ""
        }
      ]
    }
  ],

  "tagging": [
    {
      "name": "Full Profile",
      "tags": "pro"
    },
    {
      "name": "QA and Technology",
      "tags": "tech"
    },
    {
      "name": "Community Driven",
      "tags": "com"
    },
    {
      "name": "Impossible List",
      "tags": "goal"
    }
  ]
}