Santiago Rodríguez Gutiérrez

Santiago is a Senior SDET and QA Automation Engineer based in Medellín, Colombia, working with U.S. engineering teams on product quality, test automation, and data pipeline validation. He has spent close to a decade in quality engineering, designing automation strategies, building frameworks from scratch, and running workshops to teach automation inside the teams he works with.

His work spans every level of the testing pyramid: unit and component testing, contract testing for Kafka events and REST services, end-to-end suites in Playwright and Cypress, and the reconciliation of large data pipelines. More recently he has focused on AI-augmented QA, using models to analyze and test data reconciliation processes, and designing agentic pipelines that connect a ticketing system, a test framework, and version control through MCP integrations, with human review at every gate.

He writes about practical, hype-free AI in testing on LinkedIn.