I'm Stefano Petracca, a Director & Consultant specializing in QA coaching, engineering, full-stack testing, and agile practices. I help teams deliver enterprise-grade software by designing test strategies, automation, release processes, and coaching. Over more than a decade, I've led QA across mobile, web and API products, built automation frameworks, and mentored engineers to elevate quality. I thrive on cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement. I thrive in dynamic groups, where high adaptability and pragmatism are important. I am very passioned about technology and learn new things every day.

Stefano Petracca

I'm Stefano Petracca, a Director & Consultant specializing in QA coaching, engineering, full-stack testing, and agile practices. I help teams deliver enterprise-grade software by designing test strategies, automation, release processes, and coaching. Over more than a decade, I've led QA across mobile, web and API products, built automation frameworks, and mentored engineers to elevate quality. I thrive on cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement. I thrive in dynamic groups, where high adaptability and pragmatism are important. I am very passioned about technology and learn new things every day.

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I’m Stefano Petracca, a Director & Consultant specializing in QA coaching, engineering, full-stack testing, and agile practices. I help teams deliver enterprise-grade software by designing test strategies, automation, release processes, and coaching.

Over more than a decade, I’ve led QA across mobile, web and API products, built automation frameworks, and mentored engineers to elevate quality. I thrive on cross-functional collaboration and continuous improvement.

I thrive in dynamic groups, where high adaptability and pragmatism are important. I am very passioned about technology and learn new things every day.

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Experience Level

Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate

Language

Italian
Fluent
English
Fluent
French
Advanced
Spanish; Castilian
Advanced
Dutch
Intermediate

Work Experience

Director & Consultant at pTrack
September 1, 2025 - Present
Director & consultant providing QA engineering (manual & automated), full-stack testing (API, iOS and Android, Web -JS, TS, PHP-), release management, project management, QA coaching, mentoring and corporate trainings.
Product QA Android/iOS/Web/API, Agile facilitator, release management at Luscii (Omron)
July 1, 2019 - August 1, 2025
Led QA across mobile, web and API products ensuring regulatory and enterprise-level quality; Designed and implemented test automation framework (Maestro and Ruby) for regression testing on iOS and Android; Built and scripted API integration tests for hospital systems, Windows services and cloud environments; Performed connected devices QA, bluetooth stack validation, protocol sniffing and interoperability checks; Conducted cloud & resilience testing (AWS, Google Cloud); Created an internal FAQ bot/web tool bridging customer care, development and product teams; Coached QA engineers and new hires to elevate quality culture.
Scrum Master at Twill (Maersk)
January 1, 2019 - June 1, 2019
Facilitated 3 scrum teams building a digital freight-shipping platform; Drove Agile delivery practices, sprint planning, retrospectives and cross-team alignment.
QA coach consultant at Wemanity
March 1, 2018 - January 1, 2019
Advised and coached on DevOps testing strategies and continuous integration pipelines; Delivered ISTQB-aligned training programs to testers; Guided agile teams on modern test practices within Scrum and SAFe context.
QA & Agile coach at Focuscura
August 1, 2016 - March 1, 2018
Established end-to-end QA processes from scratch in a startup context; Setup test infrastructure: manual, automated and regression testing, release and delivery pipelines; Coordinated with offshore development teams; aligned QA and release workflows; Managed post-delivery validation for sensitive environments with customers.
Software Engineer in Test & Scrum Master at TomTom
September 1, 2010 - August 1, 2016
Built a Jenkins-based test automation framework for platform audio and connectivity; Conducted ASR audio testing and coordinated test data creation with native speakers; Performed Bluetooth stack validation (including BT sniffing); Acted as an Internal QA consultant across multiple TomTom projects (>30) ensuring delivery quality in audio and connectivity.

Education

Holacracy Practitioner Advanced at Holacracy Institute
January 1, 2023 - December 8, 2025
Holacracy Practitioner at Holacracy Institute
January 1, 2019 - December 8, 2025
SAFe Practitioner at SAFe
January 1, 2018 - December 8, 2025
Agile Facilitation at Agile Facilitation
January 1, 2018 - December 8, 2025
PMI-ACP Certified Agile Project Manager at PMI
January 1, 2017 - December 8, 2025
Certified Product Owner – Scrum Alliance at Scrum Alliance
January 1, 2016 - December 8, 2025
Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance at Scrum Alliance
January 1, 2015 - December 8, 2025
Programming Mobile Applications – Coursera Certification at Coursera
January 1, 2015 - December 8, 2025
Effective Test Design at Unknown
January 1, 2013 - December 8, 2025
ISTQB Test Manager Course at ISTQB
January 1, 2012 - December 8, 2025
ISTQB Foundation Course at ISTQB
January 1, 2010 - December 8, 2025
Audio Engineering Associate Degree at Unknown
January 1, 2008 - December 8, 2025
Technological Scientific Diploma at Unknown
January 1, 2004 - December 8, 2025

Qualifications

Holacracy Practitioner Advanced (certification)
January 1, 2023 - December 8, 2025
Holacracy Practitioner
January 1, 2019 - December 8, 2025
SAFe Practitioner
January 1, 2018 - December 8, 2025
Agile Facilitation
January 1, 2018 - December 8, 2025
PMI-ACP Certified Agile Project Manager
January 1, 2017 - December 8, 2025
Certified Product Owner – Scrum Alliance
January 1, 2016 - December 8, 2025
Certified Scrum Master – Scrum Alliance
January 1, 2015 - December 8, 2025
Programming Mobile Applications – Coursera Certification
January 1, 2015 - December 8, 2025
ISTQB Foundation Course
January 1, 2010 - December 8, 2025
ISTQB Test Manager Course
January 1, 2012 - December 8, 2025
Audio Engineering Associate Degree
January 1, 2008 - December 8, 2025
Technological Scientific Diploma
January 1, 2004 - December 8, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Healthcare, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Other

Experience Level

Expert
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate
Intermediate