Summary
Dale Taylor is a Senior QA leader based in Denver with 15+ years of hands-on and strategic experience improving release readiness across enterprise and SaaS environments. He builds scalable automation frameworks (Playwright, Selenium, Python-based tooling) and embeds API, integration, and CI/CD testing to reduce defects and shorten regression cycles. As a player-coach he blends fractional leadership and consulting with day-to-day automation work, having driven measurable gains at clients like Thrivent Financial, McDonald’s, and Calendly. Recently he’s focused on AI-assisted testing (Copilot, Cursor, Claude and custom workflows) to accelerate test creation and expand coverage. Known for founding cross-team initiatives like Calendly’s Testing Guild, he combines technical craft with process and people development to elevate engineering quality.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer