Summary
Harry Gillen is a Software Test Lead and QA strategist based in New York with eight years of experience building scalable test systems and leading small QA teams in Agile environments. He specializes in designing end-to-end test suites, clear bug reporting in JIRA/GitHub, and automated regression and API testing to ensure production-ready releases. At TestLauncher and Geotix he created comprehensive test coverage and influenced product roadmaps through focused QA feedback, while earlier roles honed his abilities in triage and client-focused issue resolution. Entrepreneurial and user-centered, he founded an online English academy where he built subscription and onboarding systems using Stripe and Squarespace, demonstrating product thinking beyond testing. Comfortable liaising across engineering, product, and customer success, he turns technically complex features into intuitive user experiences through pragmatic QA leadership.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Developer, Computer Science, Full Stack Web Developer, Computer Science at Udemy Academy
B.A., Journalism, B.A., Journalism at Michigan State University
Associate's degree, Humanities/Humanistic Studies, Associate's degree, Humanities/Humanistic Studies at Northwestern Michigan College