Lyall Paldano

Apr 2016 - May 2018

MiTAC Europe

Knowledge & Service Assistant

Product knowledge support across Mio, Navman and Magellan brands for technical support, distributors and repair teams across Western and Eastern Europe.

Tech Stack

HTML5CSSFTPZendesk

Key Achievements

Diagnosed and reproduced device and companion software issues, then fed verified repro steps back to HQ engineering.
Built and maintained internal wiki and external FAQ content in English and German for the DACH region using HTML5, CSS and FTP.
Owned support escalations end to end, from first repro to fix verification.

May 2018 - Jan 2019

MiTAC Europe

Knowledge Author & Technical Coordinator

Promoted into the Knowledge team after self-teaching HTML and CSS. Led pre-launch testing on device samples and beta firmware before product release.

Tech Stack

HTML5CSSManual QABeta firmware testing

Key Achievements

Ran pre-production hardware sample testing and beta software testing across multiple device lines, feeding bugs and usability findings to PMs before launch.
Provided 2nd and 3rd line product knowledge support to agents across Western and Eastern European branches.
Streamlined the testing report process so PMs across multiple teams got consistent, actionable feedback.

Jan 2019 - Aug 2020

Brightwave Group

Product Support & Test Engineer

Maintained test scripts across web and desktop product suites while standardising the team's ticket and documentation flow. Cut support SLA times through faster root-cause work.

Tech Stack

MS SQLSisenseZendeskJIRAOAuthSSO

Key Achievements

Used MS SQL for live database investigations, shaving time off support SLA resolutions through quicker root-cause identification.
Took full ownership of a third-party BI analytics tool (Sisense): wrote internal docs, delivered training, and ran issue resolution.
Built troubleshooting methodologies for SSO and OAuth login failures and data feed CSV import issues to speed up remediation.
Authored Zendesk Help Centre FAQs and user manuals that became the team's first-line client documentation.

Sep 2020 - Jul 2021

Futrli

QA Engineer

First automation-focused QA role. Built and maintained Selenium WebDriver tests with Behave (Python BDD) for a web-based financial forecasting platform.

Tech Stack

PythonSelenium WebDriverBehaveCucumberGherkinXrayGit

Key Achievements

Wrote and maintained Cucumber and Gherkin scenarios managed in Xray (JIRA plugin).
Used BeautifulSoup, Hamcrest and RegEx for DOM element identification and assertion across the Selenium suite.
Maintained the test suite end to end: fixed broken tests, added coverage for new features, and merged via GitHub PR review.
Picked up Git branching, PR workflow and merge discipline as part of the team's review process.

Sep 2021 - Jul 2023

Benchmark Capital

QA Engineer

Built the automation test framework for a secure messaging React app using Cypress and TypeScript. Owned QA across three flagship projects from PI Planning to production.

Tech Stack

CypressTypeScriptReactBDDGherkinOktaJIRAConfluence

Key Achievements

Designed the Cypress (TypeScript) framework architecture and test strategy from scratch for a secure messaging product.
Subject-matter expert and lead QA across Onboarding (client and adviser), Secure Messaging (third-party integration) and Client Management (Okta).
Translated business requirements into declarative BDD and Gherkin scenarios and acted as BDD PR reviewer across QA teams.
Created the 'Test Plan on a Page' format to align QAs, developers and Product Owners on test strategy.
Introduced shift-left and shift-right practices via pre and post three-amigos meetings, taking test definition from unit through to production.
Mentored QAs on Cypress, Git and BDD; ran lean coffee knowledge-sharing sessions and built Confluence guides.

Jul 2023 - Jan 2024

Benchmark Capital

Senior QA Engineer

Led QA across one of three value streams on a large-scale financial services platform, managing 6 QAs across 3 teams.

Tech Stack

CypressTypeScript.NETBDDGherkinJIRABig Agile

Key Achievements

Owned QA strategy for a 10-team programme on Big Agile, authoring PI-level and sprint-level test plans that gave visibility into testing effort across the programme.
Spearheaded BDD and code PR review processes across 12 teams, enforcing coding standards and quality gates.
Mentored new QAs on BDD, Cypress and test plan strategy, lifting PR approval rates and release cadence.
Defined the data test strategy for automation pipelines, setting conventions for test data management.
Led QA on .NET upgrade and removal projects that needed sustained QA capacity outside sprint teams.
Managed contractor relationships and participated in hiring across the value stream.

Feb 2024 - Present

Future PLC (GoCompare.com)

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Sole QA for a 6-developer Shared Services team inside the GoCompare insurance comparison platform. Joined a team that had run without a QA for over a year and rebuilt quality practices from the ground up.

Tech Stack

PlaywrightTypeScriptAzure DevOpsAzure B2CWebdriverIOLambdaTestMailosaurOptimizelyCursor IDE

Key Achievements

Refactored a 300+ test Playwright B2C authentication suite over two sprints, lifting pipeline pass rate from 96.6% to 99.4% across 38 Mailosaur OTP and magic link tests.
Introduced Playwright test sharding, cutting average pipeline duration from ~20 minutes to ~16 across 54 scheduled runs per month.
Configured Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for scheduled regression across dev, test, pre-prod and production, gating releases for an FCA-regulated platform.
Led the discovery and test design for Google SSO automation against Azure B2C, including the mock OIDC server approach that lets us automate the full SSO flow without triggering Google bot detection.
Built a WebdriverIO and LambdaTest cross-browser suite covering 7 browser and OS combinations (Windows, macOS, Android 12) for B2C auth flows where no coverage existed.
Embedded shift-left culture: bite-sized daily refinement, three-amigos discipline, and writing test scenarios into PBIs so developers could implement the integration and E2E tests themselves.
Led QA on the migration from legacy email service to a subscription and event-based architecture; launched on the Van product with zero critical defects.
Contributed to the shared QA Playwright monorepo (QA-PCW): 1,000+ tests across car, van and home products, covering E2E, data integrity, synthetic monitoring, integration and post-deploy suites.

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Nov 2025 - Present

KPI-Canvas

CSV-to-dashboard SaaS for freelancers, bookkeepers and small business owners. Upload a CSV, get a shareable dashboard in under 60 seconds. Also the primary testbed for the OpenClaw agent pipeline.

Tech Stack

Next.js 14TypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQLRow-Level SecurityNivoZodStripeVercelPlaywrightfast-check

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Dec 2025 - Present

Interactive Portfolio

Scroll-driven portfolio site that visualises the journey from junior to senior engineer. Built with Next.js 15, Framer Motion and Playwright, with visual regression and Lighthouse budgets enforced in CI.

Tech Stack

Next.js 15TypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer MotionPlaywrightLighthouse CIVercel

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Jan 2026 - Present

OpenClaw

Self-hosted multi-agent autonomous coding pipeline. Five specialised LLM agents (Orchestrator, Coder, Reviewer, QA, PM) collaborate to produce tested, reviewed pull requests, all controlled from Telegram.

Tech Stack

TypeScriptBunLobster YAMLSupabasepgvectorPlaywrightaxe-coreTelegram Bot APIHetznerClaude Haiku 4.5

Featured

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Feb 2026 - Present

ai-leak-checker

Privacy-first Chrome and Edge extension that detects and blocks accidental data leaks (API keys, credentials, PII) before they reach AI chat platforms. Live on the Chrome Web Store.

Tech Stack

TypeScriptPreactViteChrome Manifest V3PlaywrightVitest

Skills & Technologies

Testing

PlaywrightCypressWebdriverIOSelenium WebDriverSpecFlowPostmanVitest

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptC#PythonSQL

CI/CD

Azure DevOps PipelinesGitHub ActionsTeamCityOctopus DeployLighthouse CI

Cloud

Azure ADAzure B2CLambdaTestBrowserStackMailosaurVercelSupabase

AI Tooling

Cursor IDEMulti-agent orchestrationLobster YAMLPrompt engineeringLLM-augmented test generationClaude APIAnthropic SDKGoogle Gemini

Frameworks

BDDGherkinShift-Left TestingTest ShardingData Integrity TestingSynthetic MonitoringChrome Manifest V3

Tooling

JIRAXrayGitGitHubConfluenceSEQ LoggingOptimizelyDocker

Lyall Paldano

Apr 2016 - May 2018

MiTAC Europe

Knowledge & Service Assistant

Product knowledge support across Mio, Navman and Magellan brands for technical support, distributors and repair teams across Western and Eastern Europe.

Tech Stack

HTML5CSSFTPZendesk

Key Achievements

Diagnosed and reproduced device and companion software issues, then fed verified repro steps back to HQ engineering.
Built and maintained internal wiki and external FAQ content in English and German for the DACH region using HTML5, CSS and FTP.
Owned support escalations end to end, from first repro to fix verification.

May 2018 - Jan 2019

MiTAC Europe

Knowledge Author & Technical Coordinator

Promoted into the Knowledge team after self-teaching HTML and CSS. Led pre-launch testing on device samples and beta firmware before product release.

Tech Stack

HTML5CSSManual QABeta firmware testing

Key Achievements

Ran pre-production hardware sample testing and beta software testing across multiple device lines, feeding bugs and usability findings to PMs before launch.
Provided 2nd and 3rd line product knowledge support to agents across Western and Eastern European branches.
Streamlined the testing report process so PMs across multiple teams got consistent, actionable feedback.

Jan 2019 - Aug 2020

Brightwave Group

Product Support & Test Engineer

Maintained test scripts across web and desktop product suites while standardising the team's ticket and documentation flow. Cut support SLA times through faster root-cause work.

Tech Stack

MS SQLSisenseZendeskJIRAOAuthSSO

Key Achievements

Used MS SQL for live database investigations, shaving time off support SLA resolutions through quicker root-cause identification.
Took full ownership of a third-party BI analytics tool (Sisense): wrote internal docs, delivered training, and ran issue resolution.
Built troubleshooting methodologies for SSO and OAuth login failures and data feed CSV import issues to speed up remediation.
Authored Zendesk Help Centre FAQs and user manuals that became the team's first-line client documentation.

Sep 2020 - Jul 2021

Futrli

QA Engineer

First automation-focused QA role. Built and maintained Selenium WebDriver tests with Behave (Python BDD) for a web-based financial forecasting platform.

Tech Stack

PythonSelenium WebDriverBehaveCucumberGherkinXrayGit

Key Achievements

Wrote and maintained Cucumber and Gherkin scenarios managed in Xray (JIRA plugin).
Used BeautifulSoup, Hamcrest and RegEx for DOM element identification and assertion across the Selenium suite.
Maintained the test suite end to end: fixed broken tests, added coverage for new features, and merged via GitHub PR review.
Picked up Git branching, PR workflow and merge discipline as part of the team's review process.

Sep 2021 - Jul 2023

Benchmark Capital

QA Engineer

Built the automation test framework for a secure messaging React app using Cypress and TypeScript. Owned QA across three flagship projects from PI Planning to production.

Tech Stack

CypressTypeScriptReactBDDGherkinOktaJIRAConfluence

Key Achievements

Designed the Cypress (TypeScript) framework architecture and test strategy from scratch for a secure messaging product.
Subject-matter expert and lead QA across Onboarding (client and adviser), Secure Messaging (third-party integration) and Client Management (Okta).
Translated business requirements into declarative BDD and Gherkin scenarios and acted as BDD PR reviewer across QA teams.
Created the 'Test Plan on a Page' format to align QAs, developers and Product Owners on test strategy.
Introduced shift-left and shift-right practices via pre and post three-amigos meetings, taking test definition from unit through to production.
Mentored QAs on Cypress, Git and BDD; ran lean coffee knowledge-sharing sessions and built Confluence guides.

Jul 2023 - Jan 2024

Benchmark Capital

Senior QA Engineer

Led QA across one of three value streams on a large-scale financial services platform, managing 6 QAs across 3 teams.

Tech Stack

CypressTypeScript.NETBDDGherkinJIRABig Agile

Key Achievements

Owned QA strategy for a 10-team programme on Big Agile, authoring PI-level and sprint-level test plans that gave visibility into testing effort across the programme.
Spearheaded BDD and code PR review processes across 12 teams, enforcing coding standards and quality gates.
Mentored new QAs on BDD, Cypress and test plan strategy, lifting PR approval rates and release cadence.
Defined the data test strategy for automation pipelines, setting conventions for test data management.
Led QA on .NET upgrade and removal projects that needed sustained QA capacity outside sprint teams.
Managed contractor relationships and participated in hiring across the value stream.

Feb 2024 - Present

Future PLC (GoCompare.com)

Senior QA Automation Engineer

Tech Stack

PlaywrightTypeScriptAzure DevOpsAzure B2CWebdriverIOLambdaTestMailosaurOptimizelyCursor IDE

Key Achievements

Refactored a 300+ test Playwright B2C authentication suite over two sprints, lifting pipeline pass rate from 96.6% to 99.4% across 38 Mailosaur OTP and magic link tests.
Introduced Playwright test sharding, cutting average pipeline duration from ~20 minutes to ~16 across 54 scheduled runs per month.
Configured Azure DevOps YAML pipelines for scheduled regression across dev, test, pre-prod and production, gating releases for an FCA-regulated platform.
Led the discovery and test design for Google SSO automation against Azure B2C, including the mock OIDC server approach that lets us automate the full SSO flow without triggering Google bot detection.
Built a WebdriverIO and LambdaTest cross-browser suite covering 7 browser and OS combinations (Windows, macOS, Android 12) for B2C auth flows where no coverage existed.
Embedded shift-left culture: bite-sized daily refinement, three-amigos discipline, and writing test scenarios into PBIs so developers could implement the integration and E2E tests themselves.
Led QA on the migration from legacy email service to a subscription and event-based architecture; launched on the Van product with zero critical defects.
Contributed to the shared QA Playwright monorepo (QA-PCW): 1,000+ tests across car, van and home products, covering E2E, data integrity, synthetic monitoring, integration and post-deploy suites.

Featured

Project Image

Nov 2025 - Present

KPI-Canvas

CSV-to-dashboard SaaS for freelancers, bookkeepers and small business owners. Upload a CSV, get a shareable dashboard in under 60 seconds. Also the primary testbed for the OpenClaw agent pipeline.

Tech Stack

Next.js 14TypeScriptSupabasePostgreSQLRow-Level SecurityNivoZodStripeVercelPlaywrightfast-check

Featured

Project Image

Dec 2025 - Present

Interactive Portfolio

Tech Stack

Next.js 15TypeScriptTailwind CSSFramer MotionPlaywrightLighthouse CIVercel

Featured

Project Image

Jan 2026 - Present

OpenClaw

Tech Stack

TypeScriptBunLobster YAMLSupabasepgvectorPlaywrightaxe-coreTelegram Bot APIHetznerClaude Haiku 4.5

Featured

Project Image

Feb 2026 - Present

ai-leak-checker

Privacy-first Chrome and Edge extension that detects and blocks accidental data leaks (API keys, credentials, PII) before they reach AI chat platforms. Live on the Chrome Web Store.

Tech Stack

TypeScriptPreactViteChrome Manifest V3PlaywrightVitest

Skills & Technologies

Testing

PlaywrightCypressWebdriverIOSelenium WebDriverSpecFlowPostmanVitest

Languages

TypeScriptJavaScriptC#PythonSQL

CI/CD

Azure DevOps PipelinesGitHub ActionsTeamCityOctopus DeployLighthouse CI

Cloud

Azure ADAzure B2CLambdaTestBrowserStackMailosaurVercelSupabase

AI Tooling

Cursor IDEMulti-agent orchestrationLobster YAMLPrompt engineeringLLM-augmented test generationClaude APIAnthropic SDKGoogle Gemini

Frameworks

BDDGherkinShift-Left TestingTest ShardingData Integrity TestingSynthetic MonitoringChrome Manifest V3

Tooling

JIRAXrayGitGitHubConfluenceSEQ LoggingOptimizelyDocker