Summary
Ash Winter is a senior quality engineer with nine years of focused experience elevating testing practices across startups and large enterprises, now driving quality at John Lewis Partnership. He combines hands-on exploratory, API and performance testing with coaching and testability-led design to help teams deliver known-quality software at speed. Ash regularly teaches and speaks internationally, co-organises the Leeds Testing Atelier and designs workshops that sharpen critical thinking and technical testing skills. He has improved release cadence and test coverage in mobile and Flutter environments, introduced architectural reviews and feature inception processes, and mentors engineers toward sustainable engineering culture. Based in Bradford, he’s equally comfortable diving into architecture as he is pairing with developers on automation—an advocate for practical, measurable improvements rather than testing dogma.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Geography, BSc, Geography at The University of Huddersfield
Harrogate Granby High School