Frank Malafronte

Subway, Shelton, CT

• Own end-to-end quality strategy for Subway's React Native mobile app relaunch, a complete ground-up rewrite, including test planning, coverage design, and execution. National Launch on April 27th, 2026.
• Design and deploy AI agents to improve testing workflows.
• Manage offshore resources supporting localization testing across multiple markets.
• Integrate test plans with issue tracking and project management software.
• Create dashboards to track test coverage, defect rate, and other metrics.
• Add test jobs to CI/CD pipelines to provide fast feedback.

Northwestern Mutual, New York, NY

• Streamlined deployment pipelines for an Experience API and built automated integration tests, reducing regression burden on each release.
• Led migration of functional tests from a legacy regression repository into modernized Experience API pipelines, enabling automated quality gates for production deployments.
• Developed and executed comprehensive test plans spanning functional, regression, integration, and performance testing.
• Championed adoption of structured test planning across the QA org, improving cross-team collaboration and testing efficiency.
• Worked closely with development teams to understand requirements and surface testability issues early in the development cycle.

Northwestern Mutual, New York, NY

• Volunteered for expanded responsibilities including contributions to the Fact Finder product.
• Collaborated with development teams to design, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases.
• Identified defects early and contributed to continuous improvement of testing processes and standards.