I help product teams ship faster, saner, with fewer bugs.

What I Offer

Quality Assessment (2-3 weeks)

• Identify bottlenecks, pain points, risk areas, and tool and process gaps
• Get recommendations you can act on immediately — even if we don't continue working together.

Test Automation Jumpstart (1-3 months)

• Build or rebuild your test automation foundation
• CI integration, framework design, training your team to own it

Fractional QA Leadership (1-3 days/week, ongoing)

• Interim QA Director or Manager for building and scaling teams
• Strategy, hiring, coaching, culture, metrics, process improvement

Why Me?

With nearly 30 years in quality and engineering, and more than a dozen years growing and leading remote teams, I specialize in helping companies navigate moments of transition: post-funding, mid-scale, or after things have gone sideways.

I've worked with startups, unicorns, and enterprise orgs. I bring clarity, calm, and a roadmap.

Some Companies I've Worked With

• Cofense
• Imperfect Foods
• Brightcove
• Ascensus

Recent Projects

• Government Savings Platform (Ascensus, 2023-2025): Consolidated testing practices and led a modernization tiger team for an $800B+ division, increasing automated coverage by 60%.
• Retail Merger (Imperfect Foods + Misfits Market, 2020-2023): Unified test strategy across teams, reducing build times by more than 90% and boosting test coverage by 75%..
• Cybersecurity Company (Cofense, 2015-2018): Scaled QA from 3 to 30 engineers across the US and Romania; established metrics-driven Agile processes that reduced release cycles by 93%.

Client Testimonials

"It is incredibly rare to work with a person to whom you can bring any problem and get more than you expected from your request. Joshua has an incredible talent for quickly developing an in-depth understanding of a problem and working collaboratively to find the right, sustainable solution."

"Joshua was the heart and soul of the QA team. He built the team of 15 QA engineers and SDET as well as managed an offshore team in Romania. It's very clear that Joshua has lots of experience and passion for software QA, he is technically proficient and can discuss complex architecture with any developer/dev manager, he thinks about the long term strategy, and he understands what it's like to be in the trenches. He also recognizes good work and keeps the team positive to 'fight the good fight'."

"While working with Joshua... he was always a pleasure. His abounding technical intelligence, acute attention to detail, exceptional work ethic, calm disposition and great sense of humor made him one of the biggest joys to work with. Furthermore, his ability to consistently deliver exceptional work, meet deadlines, communicate well and lead his team to continually learn and grow also made him one of the best functional managers I’ve had the pleasure to work with – and I learned a lot from him in those terms."

Availability

I'm currently open to engagements starting in late April, 2024.

I'm based in Syracuse, NY. Remote-first. Eastern US time.