Tito Dotto
Director Of Quality Assurance
New York,NY
Summary
Veteran Director of Quality Assurance with 12 years leading inspection and validation efforts. Equally comfortable overseeing massive team efforts or going hands-on to serve Quality Assurance processes using cutting edge automation and cloud tools.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Associate director of QA
Exiger
New York, NY
05.2017 - Current
- Built QA teams and processes from scratch across the company for 5 different products
- Led teams of up to 25 personnel, supervising daily performance as well as training and improvement plans.
- Recruited, interviewed and hired employees and implemented mentoring program to promote positive feedback and engagement.
- Used cutting edge technologies like Selenium, JAVA, Cypress, WebdriverIO, Karate, Jenkins, Github, Jmeter, etc to keep delivering products and features on time and efficient manner
- Managed and directed nightly and daily automation tests, documenting defects, updating defects databases, and training employees
- Worked together with the Software Engineering and the Senior Managers, Data Engineering, and the software development team to effectively leverage a contemporary QA pipeline
- Trained and developed department leaders and management staff for specific projects and ongoing operational needs.
- Assessed risks associated with team activities and implemented appropriate procedures to mitigate potential problems.
- Prioritized tasks and allocated resources appropriately to keep teams focused and productive.
LEAD QA AUTOMATION SOLUTION ENGINNER
NYU Langone Medical Center
New York, NY
08.2015 - 05.2017
- Achieved a complete QA automation process from scratch, which included creating API, UI automation framework using JAVA, Selenium, RestAssured, CI/CD pipeline, etc
- Managed 5 offshore and 3 onshore QA individuals involving scrum meetings, sprint planning, retros and all agile related meetings
- Used JIRA, Confluence and different plugins for test management and test wikis
- Lead software engineer in test
- Jp morgan chase
- New york, ny
- Applied Agile Delivery methods to simplify testing process decisions through iterative development.
- Operated under Agile and Scrum frameworks to complete releases and well-organized sprints.
- Gathered data on integration issues and vulnerabilities, reported findings and recommended improvements.
- Researched and selected automation tools, prioritizing cost-effective solutions to shorten diagnostic workflows.
LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN TEST
JP Morgan Chase
New York, NY
08.2014 - 08.2015
- Actively participated in requirements and design walkthrough to ensure requirements are correct, and unambiguous
- Provided feedback for BRDs, User Acceptance criteria and Wireframes to BSA and Architects
- Created, maintained, and ran automated test scripts using Gherkin syntax in a cucumber framework paired with Selenium JAVA
- Translated customer and system requirements into robust software design with behavior-driven approach.
- Developed code using Java and other programming languages to support digital repository frameworks and integrate systems.
- Communicated project plans, tracking details, status updates and risk mitigation plans to cross-functional team.
- Implemented and adopted cloud technologies and best practices for automation, configuration, monitoring and platform scalability.
- Attended the everyday scrum meeting, working sessions, QA meetings and any other required collaboration meetings
- Used Confluence and JIRA to provide feedback, issues, data request, team collaboration and scrum workspace creation and test case management as well as bug tracking.
Lead quality assurance analyst
Teach For America
New York, NY
09.2013 - 07.2014
- Developed thorough test plans, test cases, test scenarios for Functional, Regression testing
- Created test case design, test plan, defect reports, test resource plan, status reports
- The non-for-profit company needed open-source tools to achieve best results for QA automation, and this was achieved by providing creating automation frameworks from scratch and utilizing CI/CD pipelines
- I was able to bring all the modern tools and processes to bring to automation process from manual
- Used Java selenium, Rest assured, Cucumber, Jenkins, Github, etc for automation regression tests
- Created and achieved product quality objectives and met product specifications.
- Fixed identified issues to increase productivity and boost workflows.
- Supported company in maintaining work environment focused on quality, communication, collaboration, integration, and teamwork.
- Reviewed public-facing information for accuracy, relevancy and timeliness as desired by leadership.
Lead web test analyst
Toys-r-us
Wayne, NJ
09.2011 - 07.2013
- Identified the Test Scenarios based on the Business Requirement Document (BRD) and obtain sign-off of the Test Scenario document from the respective business owners Defined and implemented Testing Practices including Test Strategy and SCRUM Testing Process.
- Documented integration issues and vulnerabilities and outlined improvement recommendations.
- Created successful test scripts to manage automated feature testing, using java, selenium, rest-assured
- Reviewed standard product applications to identify part characteristics relevant to real-world applications in preparation for test design.
- Conducted in-the-line testing and evaluated resulting measurements to identify variances in output using current production methods and compare against application-specific tolerances.
- Participated in Defect and root cause meetings with Developers, Users and Project Manager
- Provide QA estimates to project teams including cost/value trade-offs for depth and breadth of testing.
Education
Bachelor of Science - computer information system
04.2011 - 04.2013
Master of Science - TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
03.2017 - 01.2018
Skills
Creating QA automation processes and frameworksDeliver quality products on time in crunch situationsStrong understanding of SQA and SDLC processesHands on experience in cloud (AWS, GCP) technologiesExperienced and hands on using JS, JAVA, Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, WDIO, Karate, Jenkins, Github, JIRA, Confluence, Rest Assured, etc
Javascript, JAVA, Python, Unix, Shell, Selenium, Cypress, WebdriverIO, CodeceptJS, Karate, AWS, GCP, IntelliJ, Webstorm, Confluence, JIRA, Slack, Teams, Webex, MS Office, Jenkins, Github, Bitbucket, CircleCI, Jmeter, Datadog, RestAssured, etc
Strategic leadership
Additional Information
https://github.com/titudatta11370/
Timeline
Associate director of QA - Exiger
05.2017 - Current
Columbia University in The City of New York - Master of Science, TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT
03.2017 - 01.2018
LEAD QA AUTOMATION SOLUTION ENGINNER - NYU Langone Medical Center
08.2015 - 05.2017
LEAD SOFTWARE ENGINEER IN TEST - JP Morgan Chase
08.2014 - 08.2015
Lead quality assurance analyst - Teach For America
09.2013 - 07.2014
Lead web test analyst - Toys-r-us
09.2011 - 07.2013
Baruch College (CUNY) - Bachelor of Science, computer information system
04.2011 - 04.2013