I am Sally Stockley, a Senior QA Leader specializing in automation-first testing strategies and CI/CD quality engineering across SaaS, financial services, defense, and distributed data platforms. I design scalable automation frameworks with Python, Selenium, Appium, and Jenkins, and I lead cross-functional teams to deliver reliable software. I mentor engineers, build QA capability from the ground up, and drive automated testing into development workflows. I partner with engineering, support, and product to accelerate delivery and reduce production incidents, while exploring AI-assisted tooling to speed up test development.

Sally Stockley

I am Sally Stockley, a Senior QA Leader specializing in automation-first testing strategies and CI/CD quality engineering across SaaS, financial services, defense, and distributed data platforms. I design scalable automation frameworks with Python, Selenium, Appium, and Jenkins, and I lead cross-functional teams to deliver reliable software. I mentor engineers, build QA capability from the ground up, and drive automated testing into development workflows. I partner with engineering, support, and product to accelerate delivery and reduce production incidents, while exploring AI-assisted tooling to speed up test development.

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I am Sally Stockley, a Senior QA Leader specializing in automation-first testing strategies and CI/CD quality engineering across SaaS, financial services, defense, and distributed data platforms. I design scalable automation frameworks with Python, Selenium, Appium, and Jenkins, and I lead cross-functional teams to deliver reliable software.

I mentor engineers, build QA capability from the ground up, and drive automated testing into development workflows. I partner with engineering, support, and product to accelerate delivery and reduce production incidents, while exploring AI-assisted tooling to speed up test development.

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Language

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Work Experience

Head of QA at AssetTagz
November 1, 2023 - December 1, 2025
Led quality engineering and QA capability for a SaaS asset management platform across construction, infrastructure and government sectors; built and mentored QA capabilities, migrated junior testers to automation engineering; designed CI/CD-integrated automation frameworks across UI, API and mobile platforms; mentored senior developers to adopt automated testing practices; introduced AI-assisted development tools to accelerate framework creation and test development.
QA Lead at Aryza Lending Solutions
June 1, 2019 - October 1, 2023
Led QA delivery for a configurable financial services platform supporting complex lending calculations; line-managed three testers; built automation framework across UI and API layers using Selenium, Python and Jenkins; embedded automated testing into development pipelines; worked with dev and support to prioritize fixes and accelerate post-production issue resolution; supported migration from VB6 legacy to .NET/Azure DevOps.
Test Manager at QinetiQ
June 1, 2016 - June 1, 2019
Directed testing across enterprise software systems and prototype platforms within a defence engineering environment; led cross-disciplinary engineering team including data architecture and business analysis; designed Selenium/Cucumber automation frameworks and REST API validation suites; managed SQL validation and release governance; led enterprise network accreditation and compliance testing.
Tester at Teradata
January 1, 2013 - May 1, 2016
Built Hadoop clusters in AWS to support testing of large-scale distributed storage systems; tested Linux-based distributed data platforms; researched IoT technologies including Docker, Kafka and Elasticsearch; early-career roles progressed toward development leadership.

Education

BSc Geology at University of Birmingham
January 11, 2030 - May 5, 2026
Postgraduate Study in Geology at University of Texas at Arlington
January 11, 2030 - May 5, 2026

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Government

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