Building and Implementing an API Test Solution Strategy Across a Scaling Organisation - A Journey!

Culture Amp has grown dramatically over the last 2 years. After a lot of analysis and learnings, Anne Marie Charrett led the company to move from a tester-in-a-team model to a Quality Assistance model. 

As part of the journey, since I joined Culture Amp as a Staff Quality Coach, I've taken upon API test automation as the slice that we want to improve as the first step in the organisation as a whole (200+ engineers and 25+ teams).

In order to do that, we selected three different areas that we want to focus on 1. Functionality 2. Contract 3. Load & Performance.

In this talk, I would speak about my journey in drafting an automation test strategy specifically meant for APIs and would also talk about the tools that we chose to help us thrive.

The tool that I would like to speak a bit more on is about Pact and how it helped us in our journey and ecosystem of development tools. Contract testing is something I have been sceptical about and have used schema validation extensively over the years. But to shatter all my presumptions and to allow a coherent way to manage contracts and dependencies across the organisations, Pact has been a great help.I have had a great time learning the tool and helping teams implement it across the organisation and I want to share the experience and journey with the community.