David Erik García Arenas

Career

Experience

Runtime observation, then automation, then diagnostic tooling, then asset and pipeline validation.

Work

Paradox Cat GmbH | BMW automotive work · Munich

Jan 2026 – Present

QA Intern - QA & Testing / Data Prep & Pipeline (3D Car) · Apr 2026 – Present | fixed-term through Sep 2026

  • Sole author of an internal QA framework for BMW automotive 3D delivery: one core serving a Qt/QML desktop app, a web dashboard and a CLI at parity.
  • Wrote the native layer in C++/CMake against the Ramses rendering SDK and SDL3, a headless scene probe and preview CLI, with the Python core validating the native report before recording evidence from it.
  • Read-only by design; around 1,800 automated tests across 21 surfaces, run against 26 real car models.

Test Automation Engineer (Erasmus+ Placement) · Jan – Mar 2026

  • Validated Android Automotive HMI with ADB, dumpsys and runtime diagnostics on embedded and bench systems.
  • Built Maestro flows and analysed hierarchy and selector behaviour before scaling regression coverage.
  • Created QUANTUM Inspector in Python and Qt, then co-presented an internal Lightning Talk with mentor guidance.

Outlier | freelance, remote

Nov 2024 – Jan 2026

AI Evaluator / Prompt Engineer (Freelance)

  • Evaluated language-model output against quality and safety criteria alongside full-time study.

What colleagues say

Erik quickly demonstrated a strong sense of ownership, curiosity and professionalism. Despite being an intern, he consistently approached tasks with the mindset of a full team member, taking responsibility for his work and striving to deliver high-quality results.

Thomas KräuterTechnology & Strategy, Paradox Cat

David is the kind of engineer who quickly moves from learning a system to finding ways to improve it. … I watched him grow into an increasingly independent engineer who consistently went beyond what I would normally expect from an intern.

Leandro MirandaSenior QA Engineer, Paradox Cat

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