Derek Sisson
Head Of Quality at State University of New York at Plattsburgh
City of Plattsburgh, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDerek Sisson is a seasoned quality engineering leader with 25+ years building and rebuilding QA practices for companies ranging from startups to complex enterprise platforms, now serving as Head of Quality at Wordly. He blends systems and complexity theory with data-driven decision making to design pragmatic test strategies, custom automation frameworks, and scalable QA teams that include both in-house and outsourced members. Derek has a track record of rescuing struggling test organizations during large re-platforms and rapid engineering growth—often creating bespoke tooling and device labs to meet unique business constraints. He also teaches software testing and agile methods as a lecturer, mentoring the next generation of testers and focusing on empowering manual testers to design and build automation. Based in Plattsburgh, NY, Derek pairs a humanities background in rhetoric and language with deep technical fluency, which informs his clear documentation and communication style across stakeholders. An award-winning mentor, he emphasizes practical training and onboarding that reliably raises team maturity and delivers measurable quality improvements.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
lecture on Presenting Data and Information, lecture on Presenting Data and Information at Edward TufteSpanish studies Russian studies, Spanish studies Russian studies at American Universityvarious tutorials and lectures, various tutorials and lectures at Pycon2013Selenium and test automation, Selenium and test automation at Selenium Conference, 2011BA English Language Rhetoric American Studies, BA English Language Rhetoric American Studies at University of Maryland
Github Skills (3)
testing5
shell4
test-framework4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
dsisson/talk-framework
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
dsisson/suny485
Nov 2023 - Nov 2023
example code for class
Contributions:17 PRs, 5 pushes, 16 branches in 9 days
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