Walmyr
Hi, I'm Walmyr. I'm a software engineer who loves testing. I'm also a clean coder, blogger, YouTuber, podcaster, Cypress.io Ambassador, online instructor, mentor, speaker, an active member of the testing automation and JavaScript communities, and a fan of good music, tattoos, gardening, vegan 🌱 food, and skateboarding. Follow me on LinkedIn, Medium, and on DEV Community.
Here's a brief of my history
1982
I was born 👩🍼
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, The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Launch of the Talking About Testing online school 👨🏫
2019
Joined GitLab's team as a Senior Software Engineer in Test
2020
Joined QWIC Dutch eBikes as a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer 🚲
2021
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
Together with Alekson Fortes, I started a podcast called Testando na Gringa (content in Portuguese) 🎙️
The Talking About Testing channel is approved to be part of the YouTube Partner Program ✅
The Talking About Testing channel is sponsored by Prime Control
Moved from Amsterdam to Barcelona, Spain 🇪🇸
Joined Typeform as a Senior Quality Assistance Software Engineer
Launch of the Cypress .press() custom command on npm
2023
Reached 17K students on Udemy ⬆️
Got to 25K enrollments on my Udemy courses ✨
Reached 5.5K subscribers on YouTube 🥳
Reached the mark of 100 Live Streams on YouTube 💯
The Talking About Testing channel is sponsored by Zero Defect
I spoke at the first CypressConf 🎙️
I spoke at TestJS Summit Berlin 🇩🇪
Together with Alekson Fortes, we started a podcast called Tech & Accent 🎙️
2024
Reached the mark of 150 Live Streams on YouTube
Reached 1K followers on GitHub 🦑🐈⬛🐙
Reached 6.5K subscribers on YouTube
Launch of my first two courses at the Hotmart platform
Reached 20K students on Udemy ⬆️
Finished the first, second, and third Test Design Masterclass 👨🏫
Got to 35K enrollments on my Udemy courses ✨
2025
Launch of the Talking About Testing Signature service ✍️
Launch of the Talking About Testing podcast 🎙️
Reached 7.5K subscribers on YouTube
Launch of El Genio - an open-source no-code testing tool 🧞♂️
Joined Leadtech as a Senior QA Engineer / Advisor
I spoke at the CypressConf 2025 🎙️
Finished the fourth and fifth Test Design Masterclass 👨🏫
Got to 40K+ enrollments on my Udemy courses 📈
Reached 24K students on Udemy ⬆️
2026
Launch of the Agentic Testing service
Reached 8K subscribers on YouTube