Wayne Roseberry

“After working with Wayne for many years, as a colleague and as a former manager, I’d like to share my personal experiences and recommendations. Wayne brings a wealth of technical expertise to the problems he tackles. He is able to go deep enough and broad enough to speak with clear authority in his domains. As a thought-leader, he's not afraid to take on ambitious challenges and has routinely inspired those around him. He balances open-minded thinking and scientific rigor to find solutions to problems that were unsolvable by others. Wayne excelled in working across teams to find new and creative ways to advance testing technology and strategy by extending and generalizing prior art and ML. He leveraged successful work from other orgs and his own, and broadly applied it to a new space. He advocated for core improvements to be made rather than localized specializations to reach the widest audience. He partnered with teams from different areas to bring big ideas to reality. Wayne's personality as a naturally curious and friendly person is an asset to any team. In addition to being a great teammate, he uses these strong people skills to help different sides reach an agreement. He is a fantastic listener and is able to help people find common ground and the best outcome. Wayne’s composure-under-pressure and bridge-building contributed to great partner collaborations.”

“I've known Wayne for many years working side by side with him in the Test Field and as a person who reported to me. Wayne brings a great wealth of knowledge and understanding about software and building quality products. He is also a stand-up person, great peer and mentor to so many people. I would highly recommend Wayne and encourage people to talk and meet with him to see what a valuable asset he can be to your team.”

“I highly recommend Wayne Roseberry as a software Q&A expert. I had the opportunity to work with him on early versions of SharePoint, where he demonstrated his passion and expertise for quality and engineering excellence. He always ensured that our products met the highest standards of reliability, latency, and throughput. He also enriched our team with his academic knowledge and insightful perspectives on software quality and the QA discipline. Wayne is a valuable asset to any software development project and a pleasure to work with.”

“Wayne was my test lead working on the Microsoft Network backend systems and the Microsoft Commercial Internet System product for third-party data centers. Both products were large and complex, but Wayne kept us on track with advice and guidance. Wayne knows more about software quality than anybody I know, and I've been in the QA business since 1993. When I have questions about testing, or need a different perspective, I still turn to Wayne. (And I buy his book on test planning for interns I work with and mentees.)”

“I worked with Wayne for nearly 2 decades at Microsoft. During that time, Office underwent huge shifts that stressed every aspect of the development lifecycle. Maintaining a high quality bar became increasingly important as the coverage matrix expanded. Wayne was one of the major innovators in this space. Projects at scale have always struggled with test selection, reliability, and throughput. Wayne consistently produced incisive insights into the best signal discovery mechanisms. He piloted several projects that mined huge amounts of telemetry and coverage data to enhance investigator efficiency, developer velocity, and test effectiveness. But most importantly, Wayne offered a consistent bridge across disciplines, connecting deep platform knowledge to process drivers and feature experts. He was a primary source of interorganizational relationships that synergized safe velocity across the company.”

“I worked with Wayne in Sharepoint Portal Server for 3+ years and he was a Test Lead in our small, progressive team. I was a Release PM and took notes at the War meetings where test and pm resources would, with increasing regularity as the product cycle progressed, meet to go over status of the product and make essential decisions and course corrections. Wayne was a regular at these high stress, high impact and high energy meetings. Rarely do you encounter someone of Wayne’s technical fortitude that also posses such a steady disposition, shining wit and personality. Wayne drove the release criteria for the RTM milestone and signoff with strength, energy and confidence that was greatly appreciated by the entire team. He’s an amazing person to work with and I wish I had the opportunity again.”