Experience
Quality leadership across global brands, streaming and digital products.
I’ve held Head of QA roles in agency, streaming and enterprise software environments. My work combines building teams, setting quality strategy and improving delivery, with hands-on automation and product development.
Total Onion
Head of QA · Client: Pernod Ricard · 2023–2026
Led a team of four and established quality strategy and release governance across 20+ global brand websites. Built a configurable Playwright and TypeScript framework to replace manual regression testing, integrated it into CI/CD, and moved QA two sprints ahead of client UAT.
Impact: The team identified 50+ defects before client validation. Standardised tickets and test plans improved shared understanding across delivery, while mentoring helped an intern progress to Junior QA Engineer.
iC Consult
Lead QA Engineer · Client: Jaguar Land Rover · 2022
Improved QA workflows, traceability and test coverage visibility. Mentored automation engineers and strengthened collaboration between QA and development.
BBC Studios / UKTV Play
Head of QA · 2019–2022
Led Quality Engineering across web, mobile and connected TV for a platform serving 1.5 million active users. Unified two teams into one Quality Engineering function, with dedicated platform leads and a Junior-to-Lead progression framework. Introduced automation and partnered with Product and Engineering leadership on roadmap and release governance.
In practice: Combined web and mobile automation with physical connected-TV testing using Suitest, and created a consumer feedback channel so device issues reported by users could inform releases.
Potato / AKQA
Head of QA · Google projects · 2018–2019
Led QA for Google I/O event systems under global launch deadlines. Established structured testing, Selenium and Python automation, CI integration and release-readiness standards.
Rocket Fuel / Sizmek
Head of QA, EMEA & APAC · 2015–2017
Established the first dedicated regional QA organisation across EMEA and APAC. Partnered with Finance on quality governance and defect traceability, enabled regional QA ownership in APAC, and presented quality metrics and engineering risk to senior leadership.
Ostmodern
QA Lead · 2014–2015
Led QA on projects including BFI Player, Alchemiya and League Managers Association, alongside QA work across other video-on-demand and digital platforms. Introduced automation pipelines and collaborative BDD practices using Cucumber and Gherkin.
Codemasters
Senior QA Engineer · 2010–2014
Worked on the DiRT and F1 franchises, collaborating with development teams on console and PC releases.
Alongside my career
Founder, Not Today Studios · 2025–present
I run an independent studio building software, games and original IP. I own product direction, design, development, testing, release and support, with apps published on the App Store and Google Play.
Selected tools
Playwright · TypeScript · Selenium · Python · Git · CI/CD · Flutter · Jira · Confluence