Summary
Ashby Bowles is a Staff Software Test Engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience delivering quality mobile, web, and OTT applications for clients across finance, non-profits, and other industries. Based in Charlottesville, he leads QA efforts at TELUS Digital, driving shift-left practices, cross-team test coverage coordination, and automation to minimize manual regression in fast-paced agile projects. His background at WillowTree and earlier roles gave him deep exposure to diverse tech stacks and client-facing collaboration, shaping a pragmatic, user-focused testing approach. Ashby prioritizes mentoring and onboarding engineers into test automation frameworks, ensuring teams retain institutional knowledge while scaling. He is a persistent advocate for clarifying functional requirements with product and design partners so features make sense for real users. Less obvious: he thrives on variety—moving from security services to AR experiences—and treats testing as a creative problem-solving discipline rather than a gatekeeping step.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Mary Washington