Hi, I'm Walmyr. I'm a software engineer that loves testing. I'm also a clean coder, blogger, YouTuber, podcaster, Cypress.io ambassador, writer, online instructor, mentor, consultant, speaker, an active member of the testing automation and JavaScript communities, and a fan of good music, tattoos, vegan 🌱 food, and skateboarding. Follow me on Twitter, LinkedIn, Medium, and on DEV Community.
Walmyr Filho
Here's a brief of my history
2004
Internship in manual testing at Hewlett-Packard, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil 🇧🇷
2007
Moved to Florianópolis, SC, Brazil 🌴
2008
Moved back to Porto Alegre 🏠
2009
First contact with test automation and JavaScript 👨💻
Short experience as a PL/SQL Developer
2012
Graduated as a bachelor in business administration at PUC-RS 🎓
2014
Moved back to Florianópolis 🌴
Joined Taller Digital Business as an Agile Testing Coach
Launch of the Talking About Testing blog
2015
Launch of the Talking About Testing YouTube channel
Started lecturing in conferences in Brazil
2016
First time formally mentoring
I got married! 🤵👰
Moved from Brazil to Oslo, Norway 🇳🇴
Joined Whereby team (former appear.in) as a Software Engineer in Test
First post published on Medium
Launch of the Protractor book (English and Portuguese versions) 📚
2017
Launch of the protractor-helper library on npm
Started lecturing in conferences in Europe 🇪🇺
2018
Moved from Oslo to Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Launch of the Talking About Testing online school 👨🏫
2019
Joined GitLab's team as a Senior Software Engineer in Test
2020
Left GitLab and joined QWIC Dutch eBikes as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 🚲
2021
Left QWIC, and as instructor and founder, I'm taking the Talking About Testing online school to the next level 📈
Approved as a Cypress.io Ambassador 🏆
Reached 1K followers on Twitter 🎉
2022
Got to 10k enrollments on my Udemy courses ✨
Together with Alekson Fortes, I started a podcast called Testando na Gringa (content in Portuguese) 🎙️
The Talking About Testing channel has been approved to be part of the YouTube Partner Program ✅
Moved from Amsterdam to Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
Joined Typeform as a Senior Quality Assistance Software Engineer
Reached 2.5K subscribers on YouTube 🥳
Launch of the Cypress .press() custom command on npm