Kori Barnett

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QA Lead | Senior Test Analyst | Test Strategy | Agile & Scrum | 20+ Years Mentoring Teams & Improving Processes | Automation, DevOps & AI

Work With Me

I help small and mid-size teams get their quality sorted. Whether you’ve got no QA at all and need a starting point, or you’ve got a team that’s not delivering what you need, I can help you figure out what’s going wrong and what to do about it.

What I can help with

QA Strategy & Process Review
A clear-eyed look at how your team handles quality today, what’s working, what isn’t, and a practical plan to improve it. No 80-page report that sits in a drawer. Actionable recommendations you can start on straight away.

Risk-Based Testing
Not everything needs the same level of testing. I help you identify where the real risk lives in your product and focus your testing effort there. I’ve published a full series on this with downloadable templates if you want to see my approach before we talk.

Test Automation Guidance
Choosing the right tools, setting up frameworks that your team can actually maintain, and knowing when automation is the right call versus when it’s a waste of money. I work with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and API testing tools.

Performance & Load Testing
Finding out how your system behaves under load before your users do. I design and run performance and load tests to find the bottlenecks, set baselines, and check your app holds up when traffic spikes instead of falling over at the worst possible time. I work with K6/Jmeter, and I point effort at what actually carries risk, the login flood, the checkout, the report half the company runs at 9am on a Monday.

QA Team Building & Mentoring
Building a QA function from scratch, or improving an existing one. Hiring, onboarding, upskilling, and getting your testers thinking about risk and value instead of just ticking boxes.

AI & QA Consulting
Practical guidance on how AI-generated code affects your quality approach, where AI tools genuinely help in testing, and what the security and quality risks look like that most teams are missing.

Who this is for

I work best with teams that are building real products and want quality to be part of how they work, not a last-minute checkbox. That might be a startup with no QA function, a mid-size company whose testing has outgrown their current setup, or a team that knows something’s off but can’t pinpoint what. I’m not a body shop, I don’t do “resources”. I work directly with you to solve the problem.

How it works

Everything starts with a conversation. Tell me what you’re dealing with and I’ll be honest about whether I can help. Engagements are flexible: a one-off strategy review, a short-term project, or ongoing advisory. Remote, Australia-based, available globally.

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