I am a Senior Quality Engineering Leader with thirty years of experience building and governing automated test systems at enterprise scale. My career spans financial services, retail technology, e-commerce, enterprise security software, and media platforms, delivering Java and Selenium automation across high-volume Agile CI/CD pipelines. I have deep UNIX and Linux expertise across twenty-plus operating system flavors.\n\nI excel at establishing enterprise QA standards and governance, partnering with directors and principal engineers on architectural decisions, and applying UNIX/Linux expertise to multi-platform environments. I have led quality teams across BECU, REI, Stella & Dot, Attachmate, and Musicnet, driving test framework modernization, regulatory alignment, and release readiness.

Don Simon

I am a Senior Quality Engineering Leader with thirty years of experience building and governing automated test systems at enterprise scale. My career spans financial services, retail technology, e-commerce, enterprise security software, and media platforms, delivering Java and Selenium automation across high-volume Agile CI/CD pipelines. I have deep UNIX and Linux expertise across twenty-plus operating system flavors.\n\nI excel at establishing enterprise QA standards and governance, partnering with directors and principal engineers on architectural decisions, and applying UNIX/Linux expertise to multi-platform environments. I have led quality teams across BECU, REI, Stella & Dot, Attachmate, and Musicnet, driving test framework modernization, regulatory alignment, and release readiness.

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I am a Senior Quality Engineering Leader with thirty years of experience building and governing automated test systems at enterprise scale. My career spans financial services, retail technology, e-commerce, enterprise security software, and media platforms, delivering Java and Selenium automation across high-volume Agile CI/CD pipelines. I have deep UNIX and Linux expertise across twenty-plus operating system flavors.\n\nI excel at establishing enterprise QA standards and governance, partnering with directors and principal engineers on architectural decisions, and applying UNIX/Linux expertise to multi-platform environments. I have led quality teams across BECU, REI, Stella & Dot, Attachmate, and Musicnet, driving test framework modernization, regulatory alignment, and release readiness.

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Language

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Work Experience

Staff SDET at BECU
November 1, 2023 - February 1, 2026
Co-authored enterprise-wide quality engineering standards adopted across BECU's development organization; defined testing methodology, toolchain governance, and compliance reporting; served on the Change Advisory Board, contributing to release governance, risk assessment, and architectural reviews; delivered compliance improvements and actionable recommendations for QA methodology, test coverage, and regulatory alignment; standardized automated testing practices across cross-functional teams.
Senior SDET at AIM Consulting Group — On Assignment at REI
November 1, 2020 - April 1, 2023
Embedded with REI's engineering organization across multiple product teams, delivering Java and Selenium test automation for the production web retail platform serving millions of customers; Maintained and extended the Jenkins/Git CI/CD pipeline in a high-velocity Agile/Scrum environment; Expanded test coverage through Scala performance testing and REST API validation; Collaborated with product managers, developers, and QA leads across multiple concurrent Agile teams to surface quality risks early in the development cycle.
Test Architect / Senior Java SDET at AIM Consulting Group
August 1, 2017 - May 1, 2020
Designed test strategies, automation framework architectures, and quality standards for complex enterprise software platforms across multiple client engagements; Provided senior Java test automation services in Renton, WA and the greater Seattle Area.
Software Developer in Test at TRIAD Group, Inc.
May 1, 2020 - November 1, 2020
Delivered automation testing services for client software development projects; bridged AIM assignments and contributed as a Senior Tester/Automation Engineer.
Senior Test Automation Engineer at Stella & Dot
August 1, 2013 - March 1, 2017
Built test automation frameworks from the ground up for a multi-platform direct social sales operation; Developed PHP/Behat web automation framework and implemented iOS test automation using Cucumber and Calabash; Supported rapid release cycles for a consumer-facing e-commerce platform requiring high availability and cross-device compatibility.
Senior Software Test Engineer at Attachmate
August 1, 2007 - July 1, 2013
Developed and managed automated test systems for enterprise SSH, X-Server, and Managed File Transfer applications used by Fortune 500 clients worldwide; Owned and maintained a testing environment spanning 20+ UNIX flavors across multiple product versions and release branches; Delivered test automation in C#, Java, Perl, Bash, Selenium, and TestNG across a complex enterprise software portfolio.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science (Information Systems) at Southwest Baptist University
January 1, 1988 - January 1, 1992

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Retail, Media & Entertainment, Software & Internet, Professional Services