Cyril Joseph

Principal Software Developer

Autodesk

Jul 2025 - Current (1 year 4 months)

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Chief SDET

TestCreed Software Inc.

Jan 2025 - Current (1 year 10 months)

Services offered: ● Setting up Automation Frameworks - E2E: Playwright, Selenium or Cypress using TypeScript, Python or Java - API Tests: Contract Tests using PACT or vanilla Postman - Load Tests: Locust, JMeter ● Setting up quality gating (Github Actions, Jenkins or CircleCI) ● Consulting on Test Practices and Tech Stack ● Coaching and Workshops on Automation testing, conventions and best practices Working on a couple of products: - A validation engine that compares LLM models based on YOUR usecases, prompts and helps you to pick the one that suites your needs (Performance Cost) - A "Help-Me-Do-That" app based on AI MCP + Browser Use

Head of QA Engineering

Lightci (Light Consulting)

Feb 2024 - Apr 2025 (1 year 3 months)

As Head of QA: - I lead the QA/SDET team (both internal and external vendors) across 6 application teams. - Reported to the CEO - Served as the primary liaison with clients for product quality and support. Created bug onboarding pipelines from the client to our JIRA projects. - Onboarding QA practices and best practices throughout the company. - Researched and lead AI Tooling adoption for Quality (Playwright MCP, Langchain libraries) As the Automation Architect: - Built the company's Automated Testing Stack and CI pipelines - React Web apps: UI Tests based on Playwright and written in TypeScript. - NestJS Services: Built API tests (Integration and Contract Tests) for backend services - Electron based desktop apps: Playwright + TypeScript te

Lead Software Development Engineer in Test

Top Hat

Jan 2023 - Jan 2024 (1 year 1 month)

Built and lead a team of SDETs (Test Platform Team). Implemented functional and non functional testing across Top Hat. Primary duties included: - Analyzing gaps and potential points of failures in the application - Creating, Maintaining and supporting the onboarding of Test Platforms (Test Frameworks, CI/CD Workflows) and Dev Tooling for the domain teams within TopHat - Effort estimation and Prioritization - Coaching on best practices of test and process automation across teams Frameworks Built and Implemented: - Web Test E2E Framework for a React App hosted on AWS: Built on Playwright and TypeScript, based on the Page Object Model design pattern. Tests integrated with GitHub Actions (as well as Jenkins for legacy teams), can be targeted by

Senior QA Engineer II

Amazon

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022 (5 months)

Part of the Sponsored Display ads team. Major Projects Delivered:
• E2E Node.js scripts that test Video Ads. This was pivotal in allowing Vendors to upload and set delivery algos for Video ads. The scripts tested the following: - Ad renders and playback (based on the user agent, size, requesting site) - Ad delivery (Amazon retail site, and other amazon owned websites like Twitch, IMDb etc) - Video ad customization (Combinations of headlines, product images, badges etc)
• API Tests for Ad Delivery Forecasting - Postman / newman scripts that check what the delivery metrics would look like for targeted ads (various different proprietary targeting algos), compare them to historical data of similar products and targets, and automatical

QA Engineering Lead

VerticalScope Inc.

Jan 2020 - Aug 2022 (2 years 8 months)

- Owner of the Testing aspects of the CI pipeline at VerticalScope’s biggest platform (120 million monthly active users) - Maintain a dockerized Selenium Grid server - Created targeted test Pipelines in Jenkins for PRs as part of quality gating - Maintaining Quality of over 1200 websites hosted on the Google Cloud Platform, running in Docker Containers + Kubernetes orchestration - Created scripts to test ML embeddings and ensure the user is recommended the correct "Related Content" - Organized and led multiple bug bounty programs utilizing internal talent as well as external vendors. - Daily activities included: ● Making sure the QA Automation infrastructure is working and up to date ● Regression pack management (Add new scenarios, remove l

Senior Software Development Engineer In Test

BMO

Jul 2018 - Jan 2020 (1 year 7 months)

- Test Automation Architect - Created and implementated the first Automated Test Framework in Payment Gateway team - Lead offshore teams for the products and features I owned. - Responsible for Sprint minus 1 Automation pack creation and effort distribution. - Led the Accessibility testing team during the Payment portal redesign - WCAG and AODA (ADA equivalent) compliance. Language - Java ; Libraries - Selenium, Cucumber ; Build Tool - Maven ; Version Control - Git ; Test and Defect Management - Jira

Analyst

BlackRock

Jan 2017 - May 2018 (1 year 5 months)

- Part of the Portfolio Management Tools QA Team in the highly regarded Aladdin suite - Automate Tests using Java Swing API for Desktop Apps - Estimate effort for Test Case Automation and Regression pack execution - Analyzing and testing functional requirements of upcoming releases - Provide QA Signoff on Releases The Applications under test (Aladdin suite): - A Server that computes and provides Start-of-Day positions and Intraday evaluation of Portfolios to various downstream applications - A state of the art web app that does the following: ● Provides tools that analyzes Risk and Exposure of portfolios ● Provides the Portfolio Manager with easy ways to slice and dice Portfolio data (Performance, Risk Numbers) ● Portfolio Modelling Tools (

Lead Consultant

Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets

Mar 2016 - Jan 2017 (11 months)

Worked as the Automation Test Architect for US Government sponsored Investment Banks - Federal Home Loan Bank of Des Moines - Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco Automation Tool: HP QTP/UFT 12 Systems Under Test: Java Application: Calypso Web Applications: Calypso's Enterprise Risk Service, Limit Management Systems Chief Responsibilities: ● Identify candidature of systems/functions for Automation ● Create Automation frameworks (Re-usable, Keyword Driven or Hybrid) ● Create Reusable Application Specific Functions ● Create Reusable Generic utilities ● Create Test Scripts and Keywords for tests ● Act as the onshore-offshore co-coordinator ● Collate execution details, provide weekly reports and monthly projections to all stakeholders ● Prov

Consultant

Genpact Headstrong Capital Markets

Sep 2015 - Mar 2016 (7 months)

Software Engineer

Accenture

Feb 2013 - Sep 2015 (2 years 8 months)

Worked as an Automation Tester specializing in Web Based Applications. Main responsibilities include creation of Automated test suites from Manual scripts and creation of reusable software assets to create a basic foundation for future Automation projects. Main tools include Selenium with Java, HP ALM/QTP package and Programming language VBScript. Clients included an international Retail Bank(Client Reporting Software), Takeda Pharmaceuticals (Salesforce and Oracle Argus) and Intercontinental Hotel Group (Bookings through APIs and Web Portal)

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Founding Engineer

Zenko Technologies

Jun 2011 - Jan 2013 (1 year 8 months)

C++ Developer and part of a 2 person team developing an Algorithm Trading (HFT) application - Coded and Implemented indicators (MACD, Ichimoku Kinko Hyo amongst other signals) generation - Socket programming for interprocess communication and buy/sell signal relay - Implemented daily, weekly and custom reports for P&L, trade volumes etc using amCharts (ported to d3.js once that library was made public)

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