Jason Kautz
Quality Engineering Manager
- Role
- Quality Engineering Manager at Aceable
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Quality Engineering Manager
Mar 2025 — Present · Austin, TX, US
Leading the transformation of a manual QA team into a hybrid QE function, launching Playwright training and championing an automation-first mindset.• Developing a repeatable, AI-assisted test planning workflow using ChatGPT, Rovo Chat, Claude Code + Jira & Playwright MCP’s to improve efficiency and consistency.• Driving a phased quality roadmap focused on foundational alignment, cross-functional influence, and long-term optimization.• Auditing test coverage across manual, Cypress, and Playwright tests to reduce redundancy and enhance traceability.• Embedding QEs in Scrum teams to improve collaboration with developers, product managers, and designers.• Coaching team members through 1:1 feedback to build ownership, technical depth, and communication skills.• Advocating async-first communication workflows balanced with Agile best practices for team clarity and engagement.• Laying the foundation for shift-left and shift-right strategies using AI, feature flags, and observability tools.
Skills
- Test Planning
- Software Quality Assurance
- Test Automation
- Software Development
- Scrum
- User Acceptance Testing
- Agile Methodologies
- Html
- Sql
- Quality Center
- Software Project Management
- Jira
- Sdlc
- Quality Assurance
- Web Applications
- Agile Project Management
- Oracle
- System Testing
- Databases
- Testing
- Requirements Gathering
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