Summary
Dakota Orion is a Senior SDET based in Houston with eight years of hands-on experience building and leading QA automation initiatives across healthcare and financial services. Currently at Genesis Financial Solutions after roles at Enclara Pharmacia and Infosys, he combines test automation engineering with team leadership in Agile environments. He is skilled across a broad stack—Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, Selenium, TestNG/JUnit, Protractor/Jasmine, SQL, AWS, Git and Python—enabling him to design robust, maintainable test frameworks and CI pipelines. Dakota’s background includes both developer-facing automation and offshore team management, letting him bridge technical implementation with delivery coordination. He holds a BS in Computer Science from UMass Amherst and often brings developer instincts to QA problems, treating automation as production-quality software rather than throwaway scripts.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst