Rex Black Email & Phone Number

With over forty years of experience, Rex Black is a QA Architect at Epic Games. He is currently working on a long-term set of initiatives to: develop and implement a unified test automation strategy spanning all test levels; improve consistency of test tool use and underlying data quality; build a set of test results dashboards; expand the use of agile methods across QA, Production, and Engineering; implement a standard, flexible approach to risk-based testing; and, define process metrics for the QA team. He has built a detailed project plan using Jira Structure, including over 1,200 specific initiatives, epics, user stories, and sub-tasks, and specific project risk management mitigation and contingency actions, and is currently engaged in implementation of the plan, including migration to a new test management system, development of training in the new test management system and testing best practices, defining metrics and dashboards, introducing risk-based testing, delivering SDET bootcamps to develop internal automation expertise, and contributing to the creation of a games industry testing certification..In his consulting career, Rex worked with clients from small start-ups to Fortune 20 global enterprises. He has experience helping clients apply software and systems engineering and testing best practices in a wide variety of development lifecycles, including Kanban, Scrum, DevOps, Waterfall, and Spiral. Rex has served as an expert witness for six cases, including one $180 million breach of contract case. He was the Senior DevSecOps/QA Consultant in a Software Quality Oversight Organization overseeing a multi-year corporate integrity agreement between the US Office of Inspector General and eClinicalWorks, a major electronic health records company. Rex is the most prolific author in the field of software testing. His fourteen books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world and have been translated into over a dozen languages. In addition, Rex created more than twenty training courses, which have been used to train tens of thousands of people internationally, both through RBCS training and through a worldwide network of partners. Rex presented a monthly free webinar for over ten years; this series attracted over 50,000 registrations and now is popular podcast. Rex has written over fifty articles, presented hundreds of papers, workshops, and seminars, and given about a hundred keynotes and other speeches at conferences worldwide. Rex is a Founder and past President of RBCS, the ISTQB, the ASTQB, and the TMMi America chapter.

Listed skills include Test Management, Management, Leadership, Testing, and 35 others.

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  Computer Science And Engineering