Joseph Romano

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.

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.

September 2005 to September 2009 (4 years)