Jaclyn Lilly

Jaclyn Lilly

I’ve spent 9+ years working with enterprise IT clients, mainly in recruiting and pre-sales. I focus on building strong client relationships, understanding business needs, and partnering with technical teams to find the right solutions. I’m also especially interested in the growing Charlotte engineering market and currently building hands-on skills in AI and C# development.

Charlotte QA: Market Watch

Remote, Stateside- Senior SDET Gig: Briefly swapped intros today with Rob Sarro who mentioned he’s hiring for his team at Anaconda. (remote, stateside- backfill). He noted the 5+ years is more of a baseline signal than a hard filter which…

Ovidius AI

Title: Senior AI Engineer, Agentic SystemsDuration: FulltimeLocation: Fully remoteRelease Date: 05/04Owner: Owen Boesveld We’re hiring a Senior Engineer to build production AI agents. This role owns the full stack: Claude Managed Agents, RAG pipelines over proprietary data, and Claude Cowork…

Coffee Chats

The Validation Bottleneck

Why cutting QA right now is backwardsInsights from the field: a conversation with Lucas Smit, AI Forward SDET Over the past few months, I’ve been hearing the same patterns across the QA market: layoffs, impossible reqs, and a growing belief…

Ovidius

Questions to Ask Before You Build (or Buy) an Outbound Pipeline

Most outbound automation projects fail before implementation ever begins Not because the tools are bad. Not because AI doesn’t work. But because companies often skip the harder questions: Too many teams jump straight into platform selection before validating the economics,…

LinkedIn: The 5-Minute Sweep

How do people search for QA openings on LinkedIn? One of the first things I do is search by title, testing niche, or specific tools relevant to my field. Then I switch over to recent posts to see what recruiters,…