Doug Hoffman

Current

• Founding Member at Association for Software Testing
• Instructor at UC Santa Cruz Extension
• Consultant at Software Quality Methods, LLC.

• Owner at Software Quality Methods, LLC.
• Founding Member at Silicon Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA)

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Past

• QA Program Manager at Hewlett-Packard
• VP, Test Transformation Services at Software Development Technologies (SDT)
• Vice President, Quality at Blue Martini Software

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Education

• Santa Clara University
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of California, Santa Barbara

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Connections

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Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

• My Website

Doug Hoffman’s Summary

For over 25 years I have been a management consultant, test architect, and instructor in software engineering, testing, quality assurance, and test automation. Since 1990 I have consulted through Software Quality Methods, LLC. I am a Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and my credentials include BACS, MSEE, MBA, ASQ-CSQE, ASQ-CQMgr.

My work in software test automation and test oracles have provided new ideas and methods for the industry and have been widely published. I have performed organizational assessments with concrete recommendations for companies with sales ranging from $50M to $30B across the software spectrum. For over 20 years I have taught public and private courses in management, quality assurance, and software testing.

Doug Hoffman’s Specialties:

Technical analysis to design and implement software test automation, test oracles, and test architectures. Management consulting to identify organizational strengths and weaknesses against industry norms; creating or enhancing software testing or quality assurance functions.

I have worked with commercial software and computer systems manufacturers, regulated industries, and government sub-contracting companies on a host of different applications.

Doug Hoffman’s Experience

• Founding Member

  Association for Software Testing

  (Management Consulting industry)

  2004 — Present (5 years )

• Instructor

  UC Santa Cruz Extension

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

  April 1998 — Present (11 years 8 months)

  Instructor in Silicon Valley in Black Box Software Testing and Software Test Automation Design courses.

• Consultant

  Software Quality Methods, LLC.

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 1990 — Present (19 years 11 months)

  Management consultant on software quality assurance, testing, and management. Strategic and tactical planning for good quality software development. Product and organization analysis to architect product testing, test automation, development methodologies, and quality assurance processes. Present classes in software quality engineering, software testing, and management; with a focus on selection and application of appropriate techniques for the specific business context.
  
  Interested in:
  
  * consulting opportunities
  * providing training in software testing, test automation, quality engineering, and software development life cycles
  * requests for information or expertise

• Owner

  Software Quality Methods, LLC.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 1990 — Present (19 years 11 months)

  (See above)

• Founding Member

  Silicon Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA)

  (Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 1987 — Present (22 years 4 months)

  SSQA is a Task Group for the Silicon Valley Section of ASQ that meets monthly.

Doug Hoffman’s Education

• Santa Clara University

  MBA , Finance

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  BACS , Computer Science

• University of California, Santa Barbara

  MSEE , Digital Systems

Additional Information

Doug Hoffman’s Websites:

• My Website

Doug Hoffman’s Groups:

Founding member and past member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Software Testing (AST), Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Founding member and past Chairman of the Silicon Valley Software Quality Association (SSQA), member of ACM and IEEE

•    SCU School of Business
•    QualityNet - Quality Professionals Network
•    Quality Assurance Professional
•    HP Connections
•    Pacific Northwest Software Quality Conference (PNSQC)
•    Consultants' Camp Alumni
•    ASQ Fellows
•    Toronto Workshop on Software Testing (TWST)
•    SSQA-SV
•    Office Politics, Workplace Politics and Organizational Politics
•    WOPR (Workshop on Performance and Reliability)

Doug Hoffman’s Honors:

ASQ Fellow, ASQ Certified in Software Quality Engineering (CSQE), ASQ Certified in Quality Management, (CQMgr)

Doug Hoffman’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch