Peace of mind through reliable and scalable test automation

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A photograph of Martin de Gast taken in 2025.

I’m Martin de Gast, a test automation engineer with many years in the testing world and about a decade deep into automation. My experience has taught me to build on modern-day standards and apply industry best practices to my work. I enjoy working shoulder-to-shoulder with developers, making testing a natural part of the development cycle. My goal is simple: to help your team benefit from automated quality assurance — not be held back by it.

What I can offer

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  • I build reliable, scalable and easy-to-maintain test automation frameworks that fit seamlessly into your tech stack. Whether it’s Cypress, Playwright, or similar tool , I create test suites that actually support your team.

  • From git hooks to fully integrated test pipelines, I make sure your automated tests are part of your development flow. Faster feedback, safer releases, and fewer surprises.

  • I work shoulder-to-shoulder with your developers, embedding test automation into the day-to-day. Tests become part of your definition of done, not an afterthought.

Field experience

Cypress Playwright WebdriverIO Protractor Selenium FitNesse

Javascript TypeScript Cucumber HTML CSS

Azure AWS Pega Github Gitlab Jenkins Wiremock

Git Bash PowerShell DOS

Scrum Agile DevOps

Certified

TMap Next Advanced Test Management

ISTQB Software Testing Foundation

Professional Scrum Master PSM I

Prince2 Foundation

ITIL v2 Foundation

Reviews

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  • “Martin is to be recommended for his DevOps mindset, his drive to move forward and his extremely clear and respectfull professionalism.

    During his short assignment, he delivered a QA perspective to the organization that was of highest quality and a (Cypress) test automation framework the organization which we can build upon and learn from.

    Any organization will be for the better, once Martin is on board!”

  • “The short time I worked with Martin was a very positive experience.

    Martin independently set up a new test framework in a short amount of time. He was always looking for ways to take test automation to the next level, and above all, he’s just a really pleasant person to work with.

    Unfortunately, our time was short, but it was a pleasure to collaborate!”

  • “I had the pleasure of working with Martin. Although we weren’t in the same team directly, I was impressed by his expertise in setting up automated tests with Cypress. His ability to create tests that run fully autonomously in our Jenkins pipeline was remarkable. What stood out most was his skill in mocking messages to test the new front-end app.

    His work significantly improved our quality assurance, and I would recommend him for future projects without hesitation.”

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