Séverine Darlot
Senior Director Of Engineering at SmartBear
Besançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France
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Top SchoolSéverine Darlot is a senior engineering leader and co-founder with 13+ years of experience building test automation and test management products from research prototypes to scaled commercial offerings. After a PhD in automatic test generation, she helped found Hiptest and then led multiple SmartBear product lines, coordinating globally distributed R&D teams of 30–140+ engineers. She champions agile practices—TDD, pair programming, CI/CD and DevOps—and has a track record of embedding continuous deployment and quality-first engineering across teams. Known for recruiting and mentoring new managers and tech leads, she combines technical depth in testing tooling with a strong focus on people and collaboration. Her background in formal methods and model-based testing gives her a unique analytical perspective on product design and test automation strategies. Based in Besançon, France, she excels at merging research-driven approaches with pragmatic product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Phd, Computer Sciences, Phd, Computer Sciences at Université de Franche-ComtéIngénieur Maître, Génie Mathématique et Informatique, Ingénieur Maître, Génie Mathématique et Informatique at IUP d'informatique de Besançon
French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (95)
cucumber10
saas10
publisher10
cucumber-js9
python-unittest9
cucumber-java9
reporter8
attestation7
hotel-booking7
java7
command-line-utility7
zeplin7
open-source7
ruby-on-rails6
junit6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
severinedarlot/mastering-fee-calculator
Jan 2013 - Sep 2014
Contributions:85 commits in 1 year 8 months
severinedarlot/jftl2015
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 12 days
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