Tianyi Ding

New York City,United States

Summary

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience across QA engineering and software development in fintech and insurtech. Experienced in building scalable automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and improving engineering quality across the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). Former QA Lead who built and scaled a QA team from 1 to 5 engineers while establishing testing standards and infrastructure. Currently focused on backend development, production support, and leading high-impact projects that drive business outcomes.

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Software Engineer

Rhino + Jetty

New York, NY

04.2025 - Current

Collaborated with PM and Ops team to define project requirements and scope, lead architectural design and implementation of scalable software solutions.
Oversaw project development timeline, ensuring timely delivery of medium-sized project despite limited team bandwidth.
Acquired proficiency in Rhino Stack, leveraging Ruby on Rails expertise while transitioning from Python development.
Executed production support tasks and implemented a Snowflake dashboard for early detection of potential production problems.

Lead Software QA Engineer

Jetty

New York City

04.2020 - 04.2025

Work with multiple developer teams to design the testing standard for the development life cycle, design the SDLC for the entire engineer team.
Ensure quality during the Agile development life cycle across teams: architecture design, story definition, development, testing, debug, and release. Covered all testing needs the eng team has (API, UI, AWS Lambda, Event-related testing, data testing)
Mentor and Manage the entire QA team, worked closely with team leaders and PMs to arrange testing resources and manage the projects
Write the automation framework using pytest and selenium from scratch, set instructions for other QA to increase the test automation coverage, and worked with SRE to set up regression job
Facilitate QA knowledge share sessions, architect reviews, UAT and demos across teams.

QA Engineer

Ondeck

New York City

10.2015 - 04.2020

Work with a development team to ensure quality during the Agile development lifecycle: architecture, story definition, development, testing, and release
Test new products and features in areas of online application website
Proactively write test automation for application UI and APIs
Maintain Test Environments and debug applications
Create test tools and processes to tackle the hard problems and help us scale effectively

Education

Master of Engineering - MEng -

Cornell University

Ithaca

12-2015

Bachelor - undefined

Southern Medical School

Guangzhou

12-2014

Skills

Programming: Python, Ruby, JavaScript
CI/CD & Cloud: Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Frontend & Backend Development

System Design
Automation & Testing: Selenium, Python
Test Strategy & Quality Engineering
Agile / Scrum Development

Timeline