Joseph Romano

Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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Philadelphia, City of Philadelphia, PhiladelphiaMember since February 11, 2024

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About

Self-motivated quality assurance professional with over 13 years experience with 6 years spent in SDET roles. The web & video game industries are the industries I’ve worked most in with a strong attention to detail. Python is my primary programming language but I have also dabbled in Java.

I’m always eager to learn new processes, libraries, methodologies, & philosophies related to testing software efficiently. My attitude is easygoing but also firm enough to push back & provide detailed UX feedback for bugs to fix or triage. When I criticize something I always make sure to include a suggested solution to the issue.

Experience

Amazon Web Services

July 2019 - June 2023 (3 years, 11 months)

SDET

One of the primary Python pytest code approvers in Github for the open source O3DE game engine project.
Setup & maintained an AWS CloudFormation template for our test reporting website on an AWS EC2 instance.
Created automated tests via pytest, boto3, & requests libraries to verify the integrity of AWS S3 data dumps from performance tests.
Slashed costs to third party vendors by roughly 50% by utilizing the O3DE website user stories to track test coverage rather than an old suite of bloated TestRail tests.
Assisted in implementation of metrics for tests using Kibana and Elasticsearch.

MFour Mobile Research

May 2017 - June 2019 (2 years, 2 months)

Quality Assurance Engineer

Automated test contributor to the “Surveys on the Go” mobile app & website implementing over 200 pytest selenium tests.
Spearheaded planning efforts to remove test inefficiencies during infrastructure refactor from local server to AWS, saving us about 30% on third party vendor costs.
Verified integrity of ETL data pipelines using automated tests comparing data before & after the data transform would take place.
Implemented database tests for SQL database & mongoDB API layer.
Extensive testing of REST APIs using Postman & Python requests library.

MoreYellow

November 2016 - March 2017 (5 months)

Quality Assurance Lead

Delivered smoke & integration tests for client-based website promotions for clients like Ubisoft, NVIDIA, ASUS ROG, & Disney.
Took leadership as the sole QA resource, pioneering the company’s first set of automated selenium tests using Java, javascript, TestNG, & Eclipse IDE.
Generated detailed test reports using Trello & TrelloPlus plugin.

Blizzard Entertainment

October 2010 - June 2016 (5 years, 9 months)

Quality Assurance Analyst

Learned SDLC & entered over 3000 defects on the WoW & Diablo 3 projects.
Former professional gamer that utilized my experience playing games at a high level to test in-depth combat systems, breaking them down to their basic components.