Hi there 🐛

Welcome to my profile!

I'm Armando Cifuentes González, well known as ArCiGo! 🕵️‍♂️ 🔎 🐞

I'm a Software Engineer in Test, Science Popularizer at Sólo es Ciencia and a Math/Testing/Career & ISTQB CTFL mentor 👨‍🏫.

I have been working performing manual (Web & mobile) and automation (Web) testing, using different kinds of tools, processes and methodologies. I'm always focused on the customer needs and the user experience of the products I test.

Sometimes I give talks about testing and professional growth ⬇️.

My talks 🎤

• Moving abroad (without perishing in the attempt).
  • Ciclo de Conferencias y Seminario Internacional de Innovación Computacional, 2025.
    • Organizer: Computer Systems Academic Unit of Madero City Institute of Technology.
• Share of experience: Why and how I changed from development to testing?
  • 1º st. Test Tribe Barcelona Catchup, 2022.
    • Sponsors: The Test Tribe & Barcelona Activa & co.meta.
• Panel: Why is testing important?
  • Hands on Testing, 2021.
    • Organizer: QA Minds.
• Panel: Retos del Ingeniero en Sistemas Computacionales.
  • Madero City Institute of Technology, 2021.
    • Organizer: Computer Systems Academic Unit of Madero City Institute of Technology.
• How to create an amazing CV!
  • 1º st. Sólo es Ciencia Fest, 2021.
    • Organizer: Sólo es Ciencia.
• Dabbling in the Marvelous World of IT!
  • 4º th. PosaDev, 2020.
    • Organizer: GDL Dev Comms.
• Test your f*** code! (Why do you need to test your code?).
  • Luxoft Tech Talks, 2020.
    • Organizer: Luxoft.
  • UnderTest Talks
    • Organizer: UnderTest.
• Unit What!? (Unit Testing with C#).
  • Digital Economy Summit, 2019; PosaDev, 2019.
    • Organizers: Digital Economy Summit México; GDL Dev Comms.
• That’s not a bug, it's a feature… (Why is testing necessary?).
  • Headspring Talks, 2019.
    • Organizer: Headspring.

Other talks.-

• Testing your awesome code.

On the other hand, I've participated in activities like helping/visiting hospitals, foundations, and nursing homes; I used to be a Catholic missionary in rural communities.

Trivia ❔

• I’m currently working as a SDET 🤖 🦾.
• I'm a Catholic Christian ✝️ ⛪ 🛐.
• I love nature! 🌱 🦁 🌳.
• I like traveling and discovering new places! 🧳 🗺️ ✈️.
• I sing! 🎼 🎙️ (but I have that activity paused 😔).
• Sometimes I write stuff. I have some short stories I did that need to be polished 📖 🧒.
• Also, I like to read books 📚 🤓 (non-technical books).
• 💬 Ask me about anything!
• 📫 How to reach me:
  • LinkedIn.
  • My blog.
  • Sólo es Ciencia.

Personal quotes 🦉.-

• «I like to help other people to learn and grow their skills in the IT field 😊».
• «Sometimes I find bugs where there shouldn’t be».
• «The people have a lot of bugs, including me. But there is nothing to worry about: We are perfectible 😊».