Summary
Melissa Eaden is an experienced engineering leader and quality advocate with eight years in software roles and a broader 15+ year tech career spanning QA, test automation, and engineering management. She has built and coached SDET and quality teams at scale—most recently shaping cross-functional quality practices at Unity and leading quality engineering at Realtor.com—while reducing onboarding time and improving feedback loops through practical tooling and process changes. A communicator and educator at heart, she has created accessible onboarding workshops, edited and written widely on testing, and volunteers locally as a web maintainer and library volunteer in Pflugerville, Texas. Melissa blends hands-on technical fluency (automation, performance testing, CI) with a talent for translating engineering needs into clear training and culture change, and she brings a futurist’s curiosity that fuels continuous evolution in her career.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Commuincations, BA, Commuincations at Washburn University
Computer Science, Computer Science at Austin Community College