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“I automate the boring, break things early, and write bug reports a developer can actually act on. Calm under a release deadline, allergic to “works on my machine.””
AboutTwelve years making software fail on purpose so it doesn't fail on your users. I've owned QA from scrappy startups to regulated fintech — building test automation from zero, catching the bugs that slip past CI, and getting whole teams to care about quality before the release, not after. I'm looking for a team that treats QA as engineering, not an afterthought.
Alex made our releases boring — in the best possible way. Fewer surprises, fewer 2am rollbacks. I'd work with them on any team, any day.
I've shipped with a lot of QA folks and Alex is the best I've worked with. They find the edge case you didn't think of and hand you a clean reproduction every time. Generous with what they know, and genuinely kind on a stressful team.
Alex rebuilt our entire test suite in six months and cut our escaped-defect rate by more than half. The kind of QA lead who makes the whole engineering org better — developers actually looked forward to their reviews. I'd hire them again in a heartbeat.