Randy Rice

About Randy Rice

The Cost of \"Good Enough\"Software defects aren’t just bugs in the code. They are a breakdown of trust.When your defect rates climb, and your customers start complaining, you aren’t just facing a technical hurdle. You’re facing a leadership crisis, and money is being wasted on rework and delayed releases.Most organizations accept the friction of teams that don’t gel and systems that fail as the \"cost of doing business.\"It doesn’t have to be that way.For over forty years, I’ve been in the trenches—Aerospace, Defense, Medical Devices, Finance—where \"good enough\" is a dangerous starting point. I’ve seen what happens when engineering and business goals drift apart, and I’ve spent my career bridging that gap.I don’t offer \"best practices\" because the \"best\" is often just what everyone else is doing. What works for one company might not work for you. I offer battle-tested strategies based on real-world projects.However, I don\'t come to you with pre-designed solutions. I assess and diagnose the problems before I offer solutions.How We Can Ship Better Work• Fractional QA Leadership: You need senior direction, but perhaps not the full-time executive overhead. I help growing companies build a culture of quality from the ground up.• Strategic Clarity: I look at the \"dirty systems\" others ignore. I guide your team towards implementing automation that actually scales. This turns quality from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage.• Mentorship at Scale: With 70+ courses and multiple books on the shelf, my goal is to move your team from \"finding bugs\" to \"driving quality.\"The ReceiptsI serve as the President of the Association of Testing and Software Quality Assurance (AT*SQA) and have spent decades leading the conversation at the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB). I host The Value of Testing podcast and have authored the books and certifications your teams likely use to navigate their hardest days - including Surviving the Top Ten Challenges of Software Testing, Testing Dirty Systems, and The Wit and Wisdom of Software Testing.I have worked in every role in software development - developer, tester, test automation engineer, test manager, QA/test director, and of course, end-user.Who is it for?If you are ready to stop reacting to failures and start leading your industry through quality, we should talk. Not a sales pitch—a conversation about where you are and where you need to go.Let’s connect. Email: w••••••••@riceconsulting.com Call: 40••••••75 Visit: https://riceconsulting.com

Experience

1. Principal Software Testing Trainer and Software Qa Testing Consultant, Fractional Qa Director

   Rice Consulting Services

   Jan 1990 — Present · Oklahoma City, OK, US

   Principal consultant and trainer in software testing and software QA. Fractional QA Director. Clients include major Federal Government agencies, Fortune 500 companies and small to mid-sized businesses in North America and worldwide.Authorized software testing training provider for ISTQB training, including Foundation Level, Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) and six Advanced Level certifications, Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL), plus the ISTQB Advanced Security Tester designation (CTAL-SEC).• Practitioner of software testing in a wide variety of environments and contexts.• Test automation practitioner for over 30 years. Deep experience in creating and maintaining test automation in Selenium WebDriver, Selenium IDE, OpenTest and other tools.• As a trusted advisor and consultant, helped senior QA and software test managers in both private industry and government to improve software quality in their organizations.• Created over 80 training courses and 22 e-learning courses in software testing, ISTQB software tester certification, software engineering and standards.• Facilitated software testing efforts, such as User Acceptance Testing in a wide variety of industries and companies.• Personally trained over software testers worldwide• Serves on the board of directors of two non-for-profit organizations, including the Association for Testing and Software Quality Assurance (AT*SQA). Formerly on the American Software Testing Qualifications Board (ASTQB).• Led the ISTQB sub-working-group in the creation of the Advanced Security Tester Syllabus

Education

• University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (USAO)

  BS, Mathematics

  1974 — 1978

Skills

• Integration Testing
• Training
• Testing
• Soa
• Capability Maturity Model Integration (Cmmi)
• Software Risk Assessment
• User Acceptance Testing
• Exploratory Testing
• Test Planning and Design
• Agile Methodologies
• Quality Assurance
• Performance Testing
• Test Cases
• Software Test Automation
• Istqb
• Cyber-Security
• System Testing
• Agile Testing
• Test Automation
• Selenium
• Software Quality Assurance
• Risk Based Testing
• Test Planning
• Sdlc
• Software Engineering
• Ieee Software Engineering Standards
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Security Testing
• Cmmi
• Test Strategy
• Agile Project Management
• Software Development
• Scrum
• Test Management
• Software Quality
• Integration
• Consulting
• Manual Testing
• Istqb Certification Training
• Defect Tracking