[1] He played Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Steven Gomez, the level-headed partner of Hank Schrader, in the AMC series Breaking Bad from 2008 to 2013 and reprised his role in its spin-off, Better Call Saul during season 5.

[7] After graduating from high school, Quezada attended Eastern New Mexico University where he studied theatre arts, but did not earn a degree.

Quezada portrays a priest presiding over a roadside funeral in country singer Eric Church's music video for the single Give Me Back My Hometown (2014).

[10] On February 4, 2013, he was elected to the Albuquerque school board;[11] He ran unopposed for the District 2[12] seat on the city's west side.

[11] In 2016, Quezada ran for and won the Democratic nomination for New Mexico's Bernalillo County Board of Commissioners for District 2.