Phil Kirkham

QA Manager

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States38 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly StableAI Enabled

Key Highlights

Led QA for over 70 diverse client projects.
Expert in mentoring teams on testing techniques.
Implemented processes that improved QA efficiency.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Quality Assurance expert in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Quality AssuranceSoftware Testing

Other Skills

User Experience TestingAgile Project ManagementFunctional TestingRegression TestingExploratory TestingUsability TestingAPI TestingPostmanMobile ApplicationsWAVEHPQCTestMoTestRailSQLVisual Basic

About

Dev who found testing and QA was what he wanted to do Track record of working on multiple projects concurrently, finding the high risk issues quickly and efficiently and working with developers, designers, product owners and clients to produce high quality work. Moved from the UK to Michigan to be the sole tester/QA for a company that was looking for my skills. Love to mentor devs/designers/project managers on testing and QA, clients have also wanted to have their own Phil clone.

Experience

38 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

10 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

2 mos

Current Experience

The craneware group

Test Analyst

Mar 2026 – Present · 2 mos

Atomic object

2 roles

Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Promoted

May 2012 – Sep 2025 · 13 yrs 4 mos

Led testing and QA efforts for 70+ client projects across web, mobile, desktop and IoT platforms, often working on multiple diverse projects at a time. Worked with developers, designers, project managers and business users on fast paced Agile projects.
Designed and executed functional, regression, smoke. exploratory, load, performance, usability, UAT, API and accessibility tests and test cases tailored to project needs.
Facilitated triage meetings that reduced time spent by 75% and improved prioritization of fixes.
Mentored developers on testing techniques, leading to earlier bug detection and faster UAT completion.
Worked with clients to improve their QA processes - one client wanted a “Phil Clone”
Worked on a wide variety of tech stacks, backend, sales and CRM systems

User Experience TestingAgile Project ManagementQuality AssuranceSoftware Testing

Contract Exploratory Tester

Aug 2011 – May 2012 · 9 mos

Worked from the UK for AO testing a variety of projects

Software testing club

Moderator

Jan 2008 – Apr 2012 · 4 yrs 3 mos

Helping moderate and make the STC a great resource for testers

Acutest

Test Consultant

Aug 2007 – Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Learned about risk-based testing
Reported and analyzed testing being done for clients.
Ran UAT testing for a major project
Performed system testing on a large government project
Checked system testing being done by another team and logged 90% of the bugs myself be doing exploratory testing
Gave presentations at the company's monthly meetings.

User Experience TestingRegression TestingQuality AssuranceSoftware Testing

Miles33

2 roles

Test Lead

Promoted

Sep 2004 – Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Test Lead for various client/server and browser projects
Also took on QA responsibilities, introduced a defect tracking system and monitored it and trained the staff on it
Worked with the programmers on agile projects and encouraged them to write unit tests and have continious integration
Wrote automated tests using Ruby and Watir

Regression TestingQuality Assurance

Programmer

Jan 1987 – Sep 2005 · 18 yrs 8 mos

programmer on a range of projects using a range of languages from Assembler to C to VB .Net, client server and browser based products and interfacing to page make-up packages such as Quark Xpress