Deo Cholo Rodil

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer with 11 years of experience driving product quality across complex domains, including FinTech (Web3/Crypto), Logistics, and Automotive systems. Proven track record of leading QA efforts, optimizing test processes, and preventing critical defects in fast-paced Agile environments. Expert in end-to-end manual testing, API validation (Postman), and bridging the gap between business requirements and technical execution.

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at V2T Private Limited (2023-08 – 2025-06)

• Led end-to-end QA efforts across multiple concurrent optimization and forecasting projects, achieving a 0% major post-release defect rate.
• Designed and executed comprehensive test suites (Functional, Regression, Integration) for complex applications built on Unity, ensuring seamless UI/UX and system stability.
• Partnered closely with backend developers to validate intricate algorithms for logistics routing, demand forecasting, and shipment cargo optimization.
• Deconstructed complex business logic for AI-driven projects (like Book Demand Forecasting) into actionable test cases, ensuring high data accuracy between actual vs. predicted metrics.

Lead QA Engineer at XLD Finance (2021-10 – 2023-06)

• Led and mentored a team of 5 QA engineers, establishing testing best practices, conducting peer reviews, and accelerating the team's professional growth.
• Spearheaded QA strategy and lifecycle planning across multiple cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless alignment between product requirements and fast-paced Agile sprint delivery.
• Designed and standardized reusable API Collections via Postman, significantly reducing testing cycles and unblocking development workflows for both QA and Engineering teams.
• Executed rigorous end-to-end API and UI testing for complex Web3 financial systems, including crypto-to-fiat off-ramping solutions and plug-and-play payment libraries, utilizing SQL queries to validate backend data integrity.
• Uncovered edge-case defects by driving exploratory testing beyond baseline requirements, mitigating risks prior to high-stakes product rollouts.
• Acted as the central point of contact for cross-team troubleshooting, bridging communication gaps to drive rapid issue resolution and ensure product consistency.

Quality Engineer at XLD Tech Labs Inc (2019-06 – 2021-10)

• Authored comprehensive functional specification documents by translating complex design layouts and business rules into clear, technical requirements for the development team.
• Designed, executed, and maintained robust test suites covering functional, regression, and integration testing for high-traffic platforms, including mobile applications and third-party wallet integrations.
• Conducted targeted API testing to evaluate system security, validate backend integrations, and identify vulnerabilities before production deployment.
• Proactively analyzed QA processes, introducing optimization strategies that improved overall testing efficiency and product quality.
• Collaborated during early design phases to rigorously evaluate component plans, identifying potential defects and logic flaws early in the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Enterprise Engineer (BA/QA) at Orange and Bronze Software Labs Inc (2017-11 – 2019-05)

• Bridged the gap between clients and engineering by translating high-level, conceptual requirements into clear, actionable functional specifications for developers and project stakeholders.
• Actively contributed to requirements-gathering sessions, proactively offering product optimization suggestions that enhanced the end-user experience and prevented logic gaps.
• Managed the full QA lifecycle, including end-to-end test planning, comprehensive test case creation, test execution, and the delivery of detailed final quality reports.
• Owned defect management workflows, ensuring bugs were thoroughly documented, categorized by severity, and tracked alongside developers for swift resolution.
• Designed and executed on-site performance and load testing using JMeter to analyze system stability, bottlenecks, and responsiveness under heavy user traffic.
• Compiled and presented performance testing reports, providing development teams with data-driven insights to optimize application performance.

Software Engineer at Denso Techno Philippines Inc (2014-10 – 2017-06)

• Stepped up as Team Leader, taking full accountability for auditing the quality, accuracy, and compliance of all team deliverables and final software outputs.
• Executed rigorous software verification and validation within a highly structured V-Model System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Conducted end-to-end functional testing for embedded automotive systems, including instrument clusters (meters, LCD displays, indicators, buzzers, and fuel gauges).
• Performed static analysis and code inspections to ensure backend logic was defect-free and strictly complied with corporate engineering standards.
• Analyzed and extracted technical delta/change points between legacy and new engineering specifications to map out accurate test coverage.
• Evaluated and audited test designs against baseline requirements, proactively identifying gaps and logging defects early in the cycle.

BS in Information Technology – Informatics College - Northgate Alabang (2014)