John Overbaugh, Director of Quality Assurance, Medicity, Inc.,
John Overbaugh is in his second stint in software test leadership at Microsoft Corporation. He is a test leader with 13 years of experience in product and project IT, focusing on quality and defect prevention. John's background covers pretty much everything from consumer applications to high-availability enterprise server applications to highly scalable Web services. John's strengths and key experiences include test strategy, recruiting and hiring (especially for test), outsourcing/offshoring and the test process. His emphasis is effective and efficient software engineering.
John lives near Salt Lake City with his wife, Holly, and his three sons. He's currently working as a senior SDET lead in virtualization technologies at Microsoft's Utah Development Center. When he isn't working, John enjoys the outdoors and is an avid photographer. In addition to providing expert answers on searchsoftwarequality.com, John blogs about testing, QA, and engineering at http://thoughtsonqa.blogspot.com. |