David Ramer is a proven leader in the Agile IT industry, having excelled in various roles over his 30+ years of experience. Beginning as a software developer working on projects such as QuickBooks and Quicken for Intuit and PointCast Network, David has since transitioned and succeeded in management positions, leading teams for gForce, Adteractive, NetIQ, PayPal, and Upwork.com, among others. He has also developed automation tests for PayPal, including natural language data-driven web automation and data-driven API automation, integrating OWASP top 10 security regression tests. Additionally, David is an accomplished and published IOS and Android developer, and has built and worked with offshore teams in Bangalore, India, Bolivia, and Ukraine. He has also overseen knowledge transfer and reverse knowledge transfer with offshore teams, as well as successfully transitioned offshore vendors.

David Ramer is an experienced QA leader and manager, with particular strengths in Agile best practices, full SDLC, QA metrics tracking such as MTTT and DRE, TDD and BDD design patterns, and offshore team management. His skills include excellent interpersonal and analytical skills, strong verbal and written communication skills, extreme organization skills, and the ability to meet critical deadlines and work independently. David values QA as a vital part of verifying requirements and providing metrics on product quality to leadership teams. His Agile metric priorities include automation percentage, story delivery time, and "right the first time" story point delivery. David Ramer is currently IT Transformation Leader at Capgemini and has previously held numerous other leadership positions in quality assurance and software engineering at XPO Logistics, Billfire, Upwork.com, and others.