Quality deserves main character energy.

I’m a Quality Engineer with 10+ years of experience helping teams build software they’re confident shipping. My passion isn’t just finding bugs, it’s building quality into the development process through thoughtful test strategy, automation, and engineering collaboration.

I believe quality is everyone’s responsibility, and QA has the opportunity to be far more than a gate at the end of a release. The best quality engineers reduce risk, enable developers, and help teams make better decisions with confidence.

Outside of my day job, I write about quality engineering, test automation, and building a sustainable career in QA. My goal is simple: make QA more approachable, practical, and strategic.

My path into tech wasn’t traditional.

I started in a billing department at a web hosting company. A former manager saw something in me and suggested QA, but I wasn’t technical enough to qualify. So I spent my lunch breaks sitting in technical support training classes just to learn enough to transfer into support. After another internal move supporting development teams, and a lot of persistence, I landed my first QA role.

That experience shaped how I think about mentoring.

I remember how overwhelming it was to figure out what to learn, which skills mattered, and how to break into QA without a computer science background. I was fortunate to have mentors who opened doors for me, and I know not everyone has that support.

That’s why I create content.

Whether it’s writing about Playwright, test strategy, risk-based testing, or the realities of modern quality engineering, I hope to be the resource I was looking for when I started.

When I’m not thinking about software quality, you’ll usually find me hiking Utah trails, painting, reading an actual paper book, or spending time with my three kids, usually with coffee in hand.