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Quality Assurance/Release Management

About

The Quality Assurance/Release Management team is responsible to help ensure quality throughout the system development life cycle and to help UIT meet state and internal audit requirements. This is achieved by working with all appropriate parties to establish methodologies and processes to generate more stable and robust deliverables in the most cost-effective ways.

QA strives to ensure that the highly complex, constantly changing systems and applications our customers use, work, and function as expected, by helping reduce or eliminate unexpected issues.

Services

Automated functional testing

Validate application functionality from the user perspective through repeatable, automated tests.

Manual functional testing

Perform targeted user functional testing to identify issues and confirm expected behavior.

Load and performance testing

Assess system performance and reliability under various  usage levels.

Release management

Coordinate application releases to reduce risk and support stable deployments and meet state and University audit compliance.

 

Our Team

Dan Thornley

Director

dan.thornley@utah.edu

Clint Bowles

Software Test Engineer

clint.bowles@utah.edu

Bryce Saldajeno

Software Test Engineer

b.saldajeno@utah.edu

Adam Sheikhani

Software Test Engineer

u6007096@utah.edu

Michael Wadley

Software Test Engineer

michael.wadley@utah.edu

Eric Watson

Software Test Engineer

e.watson@utah.edu

Interested in learning more?

For questions or more information about QA/Release Management, please reach out to your Product Manager or Dan Thornley.

Last Updated: 4/10/26