Summary
John Todd is a Director of Quality Assurance with 11 years of hands-on software development and leadership experience, currently shaping QA and automation strategy at Verisk Property Estimating Solutions. He has built and led cross-platform teams—spanning Android, iOS, WPF, and cloud test infrastructure—culminating in a UI automation framework that ran highly parallelized Appium tests on AWS with ~99.5% stability. Known for promoting engineers into leadership roles and blending developer rigor with quality-first practices, he’s comfortable architecting systems, hiring, and driving Total Quality Management across diverse tech stacks. Based in Saratoga Springs, Utah, he pairs a BS in Computer Science with a practical teaching mindset honed tutoring at Utah State, and a penchant for learning and mentoring that consistently raises team capability. Not obvious from titles: he has deep experience designing cloud-native test architectures that reduced multi-day test cycles to under an hour.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Utah State University - College of Engineering
Fullerton College