Profile 04 — People & Growth Perfil 04 — Personas y Crecimiento

Laura Saavedra®

Certified Mentor | Team Coach | Career Mentor

Certified QC Lead and Career Mentor with 15+ years of experience in quality engineering, Agile delivery and business analysis. I coach people and teams across LATAM to grow, become autonomous and deliver with quality.

QC Lead y Career Mentor certificada con 15+ años de experiencia en ingeniería de calidad, entrega Agile y análisis de negocio. Coacheo personas y equipos en LATAM para que crezcan, sean autónomos y entreguen con calidad.

Mentoring & Coaching Team Leadership Agile Coaching Quality Culture AI Learning Sessions Career Growth

About me

Sobre mí

My coaching approach

Mi enfoque de coaching

I mentor with a business-analyst mindset: I listen to understand, I observe the flow, and I give concrete, actionable feedback. My goal is teams that keep improving on their own.

Mentoreo con mentalidad de business analyst: escucho para entender, observo el flujo y doy feedback concreto y accionable. Mi objetivo son equipos que mejoran solos.

  • 1:1 mentoring for testers, analysts and leads across LATAM.
  • Mentoría 1:1 para testers, analistas y líderes en LATAM.
  • Agile and quality culture coaching to make teams autonomous and mature.
  • Coaching de cultura Agile y de calidad para hacer equipos autónomos y maduros.

Credentials & impact

Credenciales e impacto

  • Certified QC Lead and Career Mentor at Globant (Certified Mentor Trainer & Leader, PMBOK - 2024).
  • QC Lead y Career Mentor certificada en Globant (Certified Mentor Trainer & Leader, PMBOK - 2024).
  • Guided 20+ mentees in Studio QE and Friday Mentoring Pods.
  • Guié a 20+ mentees en Studio QE y Friday Mentoring Pods.
  • Delivered AI learning sessions, upskilling teams in AI-driven quality.
  • Dicté sesiones de aprendizaje de IA, actualizando equipos en calidad impulsada por IA.
  • 50+ professionals coached across LATAM during my career.
  • 50+ profesionales coachados en LATAM durante mi carrera.

Experience

Experiencia

Technical Mentor & QC Lead

Mentor Técnica & QC Lead

Globant
Aug 2021 - Apr 2026
  • Certified QC Lead and Career Mentor; guided 20+ mentees at Studio QE and Friday Mentoring Pods.
  • QC Lead y Career Mentor certificada; guié a 20+ mentees en Studio QE y Friday Mentoring Pods.
  • Delivered AI learning sessions, helping teams adopt AI tools for quality and speed.
  • Dicté sesiones de aprendizaje de IA, ayudando a los equipos a adoptar herramientas de IA para calidad y velocidad.
  • Led multicultural QA teams across LATAM and India, coaching them toward autonomy and maturity.
  • Lideré equipos QA multiculturales en LATAM e India, coachandolos hacia la autonomía y la madurez.

Team Leadership & Delivery

Liderazgo de equipos y entrega

Across Globant projects
2021 - 2026
  • Led a team of 12 testers through production deployments (CeriFi).
  • Lideré un equipo de 12 testers en los despliegues a producción (CeriFi).
  • Owned the client relationship and QA delivery end to end (CNA - Harley-Davidson Portal).
  • Fui dueña de la relación con el cliente y de la entrega QA de punta a punta (CNA - Harley-Davidson Portal).
  • Aligned the way of working across countries on the LATAM payment gateway, unlocking rollouts.
  • Alineé el modo de trabajo entre países en la pasarela de pagos LATAM, destrabando los rollouts.

QA Lead Analyst & Scrum facilitation

QA Lead Analyst y facilitación Scrum

Banco de Previsión Social (BPS) - ST Consultores - Atos
Mar 2011 - Jan 2020
  • Worked in Scrum teams managing requirements traceability, bugs and use cases in Jira and TestLink.
  • Trabajé en equipos Scrum gestionando trazabilidad de requisitos, bugs y casos de uso en Jira y TestLink.
  • Coached teammates in testing and documentation practices, growing the team's quality culture.
  • Coaché compañeros en prácticas de testing y documentación, haciendo crecer la cultura de calidad del equipo.

Highlights

Logros

Career Mentoring
Mentoría de carrera

Studio QE & Friday Mentoring Pods

Studio QE y Friday Mentoring Pods

Globant | 20+ mentees
Globant | 20+ mentees
  • Certified QC Lead and Career Mentor guiding mentees in their growth paths.
  • QC Lead y Career Mentor certificada guiando a los mentees en sus caminos de crecimiento.
  • Regular 1:1s with concrete, actionable feedback on skills and career.
  • 1:1 regulares con feedback concreto y accionable sobre habilidades y carrera.
AI Upskilling
Capacitación en IA

AI Learning Sessions

Sesiones de aprendizaje de IA

Globant | Enterprise AI-certified
Globant | Certificada en Enterprise AI
  • Delivered sessions teaching teams how to use AI tools to optimize quality and speed to market.
  • Dicté sesiones enseñando a los equipos a usar herramientas de IA para optimizar calidad y velocidad al mercado.
  • Enterprise AI Solution & AI Pilot Product certifications (2026).
  • Certificaciones Enterprise AI Solution y AI Pilot Product (2026).
Team Growth
Crecimiento de equipos

50+ professionals coached

50+ profesionales coachados

  • Coached testers, analysts and leads across LATAM in Agile and quality culture.
  • Coaché testers, analistas y líderes en LATAM en cultura Agile y de calidad.
  • Teams I coached became more autonomous, mature and consistent in delivery.
  • Los equipos que coaché se volvieron más autónomos, maduros y consistentes en la entrega.

Skills

Habilidades

Coaching

Coaching

1:1 MentoringCareer Path GuidanceFeedback & EvaluationSkill Development Plans

Team Leadership

Liderazgo de equipos

Multicultural TeamsLATAM & IndiaCross-Functional CollaborationClient Ownership

Agile Coaching

Coaching Agile

Scrum CultureContinuous ImprovementQuality CultureAutonomy & Maturity

AI Upskill

Capacitación en IA

AI Learning SessionsAI-driven QualityEnterprise AI (certified)AI Pilot Product

Facilitation

Facilitación

WorkshopsCommunities of PracticeRetrospectivesPairing

Languages

Idiomas

Spanish (native)English (B2)Portuguese (intermediate)

Education & Certifications

Educación y certificaciones

Certified Mentor Trainer & Leader (PMBOK)
Globant
2024
Enterprise AI Solution & AI Pilot Product Web Certification
Globant
2026
AI Coda Solution Certification
Globant
2026
Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL)
ISTQB®
2015
Taller "Metodologías Ágiles"
Florencia Rossy, Agile Coach
2018

Contact

Contacto

Open to mentoring, coaching and team leadership opportunities.
Based in Montevideo, Uruguay — available on US time zones.

Disponible para oportunidades de mentoría, coaching y liderazgo de equipos.
Vivo en Montevideo, Uruguay — disponible en horarios de EE.UU.