Quality strategy for scalable delivery
I build quality systems that scale, reduce risk, and keep teams shipping.
25%
Fewer escaped defects through automation and quality gates
50+
50+ annual releases for flagship platform; cross-team advisor
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Cross-functional teams aligned on quality standards
Experience
Leadership, scope, and measurable impact across platforms and teams.
Engineering Manager, Quality Engineering & Automation, DataScan (Solifi) (Mar 2020 - Present)
Scope: Quality strategy, automation platforms, and delivery governance across multiple product teams.
- Scale and lead a distributed quality engineering organization, supporting multiple product teams and delivery streams.
- Define UI, API, and integration automation strategy, embedding quality practices directly within engineering teams.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to improve release confidence, earlier defect detection, and delivery velocity.
- Advocate for observability practices, including Grafana dashboards, alerting, and SLI/SLO adoption across internal and customer-facing systems.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted automation, establishing governance-aligned standards and best practices.
- Recognized with the 2025 DataScan (Solifi) Impact Award, a peer-nominated award for leadership, collaboration, and cross-team impact.
Senior Software Engineer in Test, DataScan (Solifi) (Jul 2019 - Mar 2020)
Scope: Test automation architecture, CI/CD integration, and platform upgrade validation.
- Led testing for a major authentication and session management upgrade, including MFA integration.
- Designed CI/CD pipelines for integration testing to shorten feedback cycles and improve reliability.
- Improved test reporting, static analysis, and framework standards adopted across test projects.
- Partnered with developers to shift testing earlier in the delivery lifecycle and reduce sprint defects.
Software Engineer in Test, Aaron's, Inc. (Feb 2018 - Jul 2019)
Scope: UI and API automation for e-commerce and backend services.
- Modernized legacy automation into Selenium-based frameworks for checkout and service APIs.
- Integrated automated testing into CI/CD pipelines for regression, smoke, and security workflows.
- Expanded API testing to support dynamic application security testing.
- Authored documentation and trained teams on automation practices and testing standards.
Quality Assurance Manager, Curriculum Advantage, Inc. (Jul 2005 - Jan 2018)
Scope: QA function ownership, risk management, and release stability across multiple products.
- Established the quality engineering function, testing strategy, and risk management practices.
- Led regression and automation initiatives to improve release stability and reduce defect leakage.
- Partnered with product and engineering on planning, requirements review, and defect triage.
- Mentored team members and set performance goals to support team growth and maturity.
Projects
Selected work focused on reliability, scale, and developer experience.
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Release Management
- Problem: Quarterly releases slowed customer delivery and limited safe iteration.
- Approach: Shifted to monthly release governance using an internal feature flag system across frontend and backend services.
- Outcome: Moved from quarterly to monthly releases with unchanged escaped defect rates and no regressions.
- Tech: Internal feature flag system, release governance, frontend/backend services.
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DocumentDB to Aurora Postgres Migration Validation
- Problem: An internal application (in production ~1 year) was increasingly used like a relational system, creating performance and query limitations in DocumentDB.
- Approach: Used existing Selenium E2E coverage, unit tests, and a JMeter performance suite to compare DocumentDB vs. Aurora Postgres with real workloads.
- Outcome: Delivered a two-month migration with clear before/after data and improved application speed.
- Tech: AWS, Amazon DocumentDB, Aurora Postgres, Selenium, JMeter, unit testing.
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Automation Modernization
- Problem: Legacy automation frameworks made test creation and maintenance slow, especially for UI locators.
- Approach: Migrated suites from a legacy, internally structured Java framework to a standardized Java toolset to improve maintainability and consistency.
- Outcome: Migrated 600 UI tests and 1,400 API tests in 3 months, improving maintainability and test creation speed.
- Tech: Java, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, AssertJ, RestAssured, Retrofit, DataFaker, ReportPortal, UI/API testing.
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Quality Strategy Embedded in CI/CD
- Problem: Quality checks were inconsistent across teams and hard to scale.
- Approach: Defined a unified quality strategy, automation coverage targets, and CI/CD gates that every team adopted.
- Outcome: Reduced escaped defects by ~25% while improving release confidence.
- Tech: CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab pipelines), Selenium, static analysis tooling.
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Observability-Driven Quality Standards
- Problem: Teams lacked shared operational signals for reliability and readiness.
- Approach: Promoted Grafana dashboards, alerting standards, and SLI/SLO thinking across systems.
- Outcome: Improved visibility into quality trends and accelerated issue detection.
- Tech: Grafana, monitoring and alerting, SLI/SLO frameworks.
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Authentication Platform Upgrade Validation
- Problem: A major auth and session management upgrade risked regression for all users.
- Approach: Led test strategy, MFA validation, and automated coverage modernization for the upgrade.
- Outcome: Delivered the migration with improved reliability and faster feedback cycles.
- Tech: API testing, automation frameworks, pipeline integration tests.
Skills / Toolbox
Core strengths organized by domain for quick scanning.
Languages
- Java
- .NET
- SQL (Postgres, DocumentDB)
Testing
- UI, API, integration testing
- Playwright / Selenium
- Contract testing
- Security testing workflows
CI/CD
- Pipeline design
- Release readiness
- Test reporting
- Static analysis gates
Cloud
- AWS
- Observability strategy
- SLI / SLO / SLA design
- Monitoring and alerting
Tools
- Grafana
- CI/CD tooling
- Test frameworks
- AI-assisted automation
Interests
What keeps me curious beyond the roadmap.
Platform strategy
Designing scalable foundations that balance speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Human-centered systems
Tooling and automation that reduce cognitive load for engineering and operations teams.
Leadership coaching
Growing senior engineers through structured feedback, planning rituals, and clear expectations.
