James Valencia

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Over 15 years designing quality from the source of the software, not just catching failures at the end — building the tools that automate it and growing the teams and leaders who sustain that culture over time.

Quality Engineering & Technology LeadershipNavisafCTIS EvolutionCali, Colombia

Philosophy

Quality isn't tested at the end, it's built from the source

People

Quality starts with the team: building shared judgment and culture before imposing process.

Process

Once people share the same judgment, process makes it repeatable and measurable.

Tools

Tools automate what people and process already defined — never the other way around.

Traditional QA

  • Looks for defects at the end of the cycle, when they're already expensive to fix.
  • Is a stage separate from development, not part of it.
  • Measures success by how many bugs were found.

Quality Engineering

  • Designs quality from the source: requirements, architecture and code.
  • Integrates into the development cycle and the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Measures success by how many problems were prevented.

Career path

15 years building the discipline, not just applying it

  1. 2025 — present

    Founder · CTIS Evolution

    I provide software engineering, cloud/Azure and quality automation services for companies under my own brand — from technical strategy to implementation.

  2. Feb 2024 — present

    QA Lead · Navisaf

    I lead quality strategy as engineering, not as a final gate: I designed Script Manager and the code metrics synced with SonarCloud so that quality is measured and built from the pipeline.

  3. Jan 2022 — Oct 2023

    QA Manager · Siigo

    I led and trained the quality team, defining coverage indicators and bug-weight-by-test-level metrics that became the area's technical reference — developing new quality leaders, not just evaluating performance.

  4. Jan 2014 — Jan 2022

    QA / Quality Assurance · Siigo

    I designed and built from scratch the JavaScript API testing framework on top of Postman, the engineering foundation on which backend and frontend functional and non-functional tests were automated.

  5. Jan 2009 — Jan 2014

    Customer Service Advisor · Siigo

    Customer support on productivity and administrative management — the foundation for everything that came after: understanding the business before the code.

Focus

Where I work

Quality Engineering

Designing quality from the start of development, not verifying it at the end.

Automation

Frameworks and suites that make quality repeatable, not heroic.

DevOps & CI/CD

Pipelines and infrastructure that build quality into every deploy.

Software Engineering

Building the software, not just testing it — architecture, APIs and real code.

AI applied to engineering

AI agents and assistants embedded in the development and code review cycle.

Leadership & quality culture

Growing leaders and teams that sustain a quality discipline over time.

Education

Certifications and recognitions

Héroe Innovacióninternal recognition for innovation contributions in quality processes.

Technical ecosystem

Tools and technologies I work with

Cloud

Microsoft AzureAzure App ServicesAzure FunctionsAzure Container AppsAzure StorageAzure DevOps

Quality Engineering

SeleniumPlaywrightAppiumPostmanNewmanGatlingAPI TestingE2E Testing

Software Engineering

C#.NETAPIsSQLPostgreSQLMySQLSoftware architecture

Quality & Security

SonarQubeSonarCloudQuality GatesDependency scanningSecret scanningStatic analysis

AI for engineering

AI agentsAI coding assistantsAI Code ReviewLLMsOpenRouterAI-driven automation