Simon Howlett

About Simon Howlett

Building great teams is the starting point for success in delivering delightful products. I believe a great team is one that advocates for quality, increases scale and velocity, delivering great products to customers. I have had success in building product teams in Product Quality Assurance, DevOps tooling, and the software release process. Whether at a cloud-based startup or an Enterprise level organization I have been most successful through increasing collaboration and communication across teams, in turn delivering products that delight customers. Most recently my passion has been building successful product teams for continuous delivery, testing, production monitoring, and knowledge sharing. All of these disciplines enable organizations to make improvements based on informed data-driven, customer focussed decisions on products and services.

Experience

1. Director of Software Engineering

   NAVEX

   Sep 2025 — Present

Education

• University of Chicago Booth School of Business Executive Education

  High Potential Leaders Program

  2018 — 2018

• University of Lancashire

  Bsc (Hons), Media Technology and Business Information Systems

  1996 — 1999

Skills

• Certified Scrum Master
• Regression Testing
• Xml
• Agile Methodologies
• Test Planning
• Scrum
• Test Automation
• Sdlc
• Software Development
• User Acceptance Testing
• Quality Assurance
• Software Documentation
• Agile Project Management
• Manual Testing
• Testing
• Software Quality Assurance
• Jira
• Web Applications
• Cloud Computing
• Requirements Gathering
• Javascript
• Integration
• Web Development
• Test Management
• Html
• Requirements Analysis
• Software Engineering
• Active Directory
• Software Project Management
• Databases
• Web Services
• System Testing
• Defect Tracking
• Enterprise Software
• Waterfall