I’m a Leader.

My passion is helping my team, colleagues, and organization grow and succeed; both together, accomplishing great things that could never be done by one alone, and as individuals, each taking their own path to pursue their career and personal goals. It was a combination of finding my love of mentoring and wanting to take on greater and more impactful challenges - solving problems that take a team, not just an individual - that brought me here.

My professional background is as an SDET.

That job title covers a range of responsibilities from company to company, but I have the experience and confidence to tackle nearly anything under that wide umbrella, and I thrive on new challenges.

I am always aiming to maximize value for my colleagues in Dev and QA: Good devs and good testers are invaluable and expensive. As a leader, I want to empower those contributors to grow, to work efficiently, and help them make other connections to build a successful team and organization. As a contributor myself, I want to build tools that free others up to work on their top-value tasks.

More broadly, I consider myself a general Software Engineer. I work on a variety of coding projects in my personal time for fun or learning, but professionally, I’ve found the test automation and tools space to continually present interesting, engaging challenges.

Areas of Expertise

 

Test Framework Design

Python

Test Planning

Feature Planning

I’m experienced in Windows desktop, Web, and Mobile (iOS / Android) automation, particularly in building up new automation frameworks. I’ve also done some database and REST API test automation, along with DevOps work in Jenkins and GitLab-CI/CD. I’ve worked with Selenium, Appium, Smartbear’s TestComplete, Ranorex (using C#), and home-grown automation frameworks in C/C++ and Python.

Current Work

 

I manage several QA teams at Corteva, and provide key technical leadership in QA across the digital org within R&D.

We are currently focusing on migrating web teams from Selenium to Playwright-based test automation, and using the opportunity to make significant process, culture, and testing strategy shifts. I am taking point on managing and organizing this migration. Our mobile team is not changing tools - Playwright doesn’t provide what we need - but is nonetheless undergoing most of the same changes.

I am also serving as technical lead for all our automation teams in QA (web and mobile).

Current Personal

 

Behind The Keyboard

I’ve taken an interest in Mobile App development, with a few fun ideas bouncing around in my head. I started out with Google’s Flutter Framework in Dart, but I’ve been curious about trying something that feels more different and have started learning Swift.

AFK

I live in the Denver area, and have recently bought my first house! I’m diving into taking on some renovations myself, and as much as I love working and playing on the computer, I’m having fun working with my hands, making my real surroundings better bit-by-bit.