Ken Dacey
Director, QA Software Engineering at Discovery Education
- Role
- Director Qa Software Engineering at Discovery Education
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ken Dacey
I have extensive experience delivering results in the software industry, primarily in a test leadership role. I\'m passionate about building teams that excel in customer-centered test coverage and quality measurement. My proven track record spans diverse teams and shipped consumer products as well as IT and B2B SaaS implementations.Quality is more than testing. It\'s paying attention to details. It\'s understanding your customer and being the customer advocate throughout all aspects of the software development life cycle. High quality products should just work, and work the way customers expect them to, while filling a customer need.Competencies Employee and team management and development Developing test strategy, test planning, scheduling and prioritization Test automation framework, test tool and test case design and development Collaboration with internal and external groups and partner teams Project management, execution, delivery and reporting SDLC, Waterfall, Agile, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)Technical Skills & Tools C#/.NET / C++ Microsoft SQL Server / T-SQL Selenium WebDriver Visual Studio, TFS HTML / CSS / JavaScript XML Splunk Jira TeamCityWant to contact me? My personal email is k••••••@comcast.net
Experience
Director Qa Software Engineering
Nov 2025 — Present · Sammamish, WA, US
Education
California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Bachelor's Degree, B.S.C.S., Computer Science
Skills
- Test Management
- Sql
- Transact-Sql (T-Sql)
- Distributed Systems
- Agile Project Management
- Teamcity
- Testing
- Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
- Team Foundation Server (Tfs)
- Software Quality Assurance
- Quality Measures
- Sdlc
- Test Planning
- Software Engineering
- Selenium Webdriver
- .net Framework
- C#
- .net
- Performance Testing
- Test Automation
- Windows
- Xml
- Agile Methodologies
- Team Building
- Management
- Team Management
- Software Testing Life Cycle
- Splunk
- C++
- System Testing
- Software Project Management
- Performance Management
- Software Development
- Scrum
- Distributed Team Management
- Test Cases
- Software Design
- Enterprise Software
- Test Strategy
- Visual Studio
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