Thibault Béné

Lead Software Engineer in Tests

About Me

My name is Thibault, and I'm working as the Lead Software Engineer in Tests at Bestmile in Lausanne.

My particular skill set actually covers a wide range of web skills from design to backend development and a bit of everything in between. But the common thread through it all is my passion for user experience which has lead me to a career in QA.

I pay very close attentions to details and I’m picky when it comes to finding bugs from the development process.

With over 10 years of experience in the Testing world, I am very familiar with a lot of tests automation frameworks in various programing languages, as well with everything that orbit around it (from methodology to tools).

I'm also familiar with the SRE world with technologies like Kubernetes, AWS, GCE and so on.

Last but not least, I love sharing my expertise of the product with everyone, and I'm capable of writing technical or non technical documentation.

Personal Info

Testimonials

Benjamin Colon

Thibault is a dynamic, curious and go-getter type of person. He's a dedicated hard working QA tester : tests cases, automatic tests, manual tests, scripting, ... Thibault is the Swiss knife of testing. At Official.fm, Thibault was also in charge of writing Selenium tests in Ruby. Moreover, he's an always smiling person, who brings cheerful mood to the office. View more ...

Gilles Simeon

I have been working for more than 3 years at Bestmile with Thibault and it has been a real pleasure to interact regularly with him. Thibault as a Lead Software Engineer in tests is known for his professionalism and his efficient solving problem approach. When he gets his hands on a complicated technical problem you end up feeling sorry for the problem View more ...

Bastien Rojanawisut

Thibault played a key role at Bestmile, and was an essential element in our growth from 20 to 60+ employees over the last 2 years. Thanks to his exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, he contributed significantly in the establishment of test- and quality- driven mindsets in the engineering team, which resulted in more reliable development processes and View more ...

Resume

Employment

January 2017 - Today
Lead Software Engineer in Tests at Bestmile

I manage the product quality of the Bestmile’s mobility cloud platform, over multiple teams working on microservices, various different technologies and platforms (backend, frontend, mobile, sre).
I review, analyze product epics/stories in order to set clear acceptance and exit criterias.
I collaborate with engineers to develop effective strategies and test plans. I implement automation strategy and automated tests/scripts through different tools and CI/CD pipelines.
I provide Level3 support, helping to troubleshoot issues and writing RCA.
I ensure the architecture stability and scalability with the SRE team, doing performance tests, stress tests, load tests...
I’m also responsible of a small QA team, driving activities and coaching them.

July 2014 - December 2016
Quality Assurance Engineer at Loterie Romande

I have implemented from scratch a tests automation framework for online lottery games, sports bet and mobile applications.
I reviewed product specifications and implementations.
I was responsible to write, execute test cases and to analyze results.
I was reporting bugs and errors to external development teams.

July 2013 - January 2014
Quality Assurance Engineer at GateMedia

My role is to manage the website, mobile and embeded apps quality and assuring a smooth user experience through both manual and automated testing of the entire site/app and its features
I am using Ruby on Rails and Capybara on Ember.js apps.
I work with Agile/SCRUM methods.

June 2011 - June 2013
Quality Assurance Engineer at Official.fm

I was responsible for the development of test plans and test cases as well as programing automatic tests using Selenium, scripts etc...
I worked with Agile/SCRUM methods, and I love them.
I was also helping the support team.

Earlier ...

Education

2008
Bachelor Degree in Multimedia and Graphic Design

Subjects studied : Communication, Ergonomy, Design, Economy, Project Management, Business Administration and Management, Programmation Languages, Internet Problematics.

Institut Universitaire Technologique de Troyes - Troyes, France
2006 - 2007
Degree in Network Administrator

Subjects studied : Economy, Network Setup and Administration, Business Administration and Management, Linux Environnement, Programmation Languages, Computer Architecture and Maintenance.

Lycée Franklin Roosevelt - Reims, France

More Infos

You can click here to download my full PDF resume.
And here is a Selenium talk I've done for a Geneva.rb meetup.

Technical Skills

Testing

Automated tests
Selenium
Mocha
Supertest
Native iOS / Android
Test plans & test cases
Load / Stress / Perf tests
Logs Analysis Monitoring

Coding

NodeJS
Ruby on Rails
Bash
PHP
Python
Git / Github / Bitbucket
Atlassian suite
PostgreSQL / MySQL

Cloud

AWS
Kubernetes
Kafka

CI / CD

Jenkins
Codefresh
Various pipelines tools

Others

Docker
Grafana
Kibana / ELK
Level 3 Support
User training and documentation
Agile / Scrum methodology