Summary
Bertold Kolics is a Principal Quality Engineer with over 11 years of experience building risk-aware, scalable testing and quality programs for SaaS and high-scale identity systems. He has led and grown QA teams, introduced data-driven monitoring and unified tooling, and modernized test automation pipelines across companies from startups to enterprise (Sun, UnboundID/Ping, DISCO, mabl, Imprivata). A hands-on engineer at heart, he has deep backend experience in high-throughput Java systems and has rewritten legacy Selenium suites into BDD-style JavaScript frameworks while integrating CI/CD and cloud observability. Bertold pairs pragmatic process improvements—hiring, test-data strategy, and session-based exploratory testing—with technical contributions like performance and replication features for multi-datacenter deployments. Based in Austin, he combines a poet’s sensibility for purpose with a relentless focus on measurable quality outcomes and cross-team leadership.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lovassy László Gimnázium
MS Information Technology, MS Information Technology at Pannon Egyetem - University of Pannonia
English, Hungarian