Gwen Diagram
Head of Engineering

Gwen Diagram is a technology professional from Leeds who specialises in testing.  She is an avid automation evangelist with a focus on testing complemented by repeatable build processes with monitoring. She has had varied roles throughout her career including Scrum Master at a Start Up, Engineering Manager at a bank and DevOps kid at a large Financial Services organisation. She is currently the Head of Engineering at Glean in Leeds.

As a strong believer in making the tech industry as open and punk as possible, she co-organises a twice yearly free day long testing conference called the Leeds Testing Atelier.  She speaks regularly at local meet-up groups, Agile Yorkshire and Leeds DevOps, duels with creative types at events like the Tech Off, speaks internationally at conferences such as Nordic Testing Days in Tallinn and was the closing keynote at Agile on the Beach in Falmouth, UK in 2018.

Outside of work, you will usually find her hanging around a Natural History Museum somewhere in the world marvelling at how incredibly excellent dinosaurs are, feeding pigeons or ducks or obsessing over transport.

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Nic Furniss did a most memorable 99 second talk. And Gwen's reaction is just perfect.
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Veerle and Gwen hosting at MoTaCon, they are a great duo!
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Amazing photo. Thanks to our MoTographer, Ollie Denton, for all the photos. Visit Ollie over over at https://dentonmedia.co.uk/
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Gwen & Veerle preparing the day-two-intro, practicing System of a Down on a Glockenspiel
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The duo was superb - the way they took the stage, engaged the audience, announced the end of 99 secs after each 99 secs talk and many more.... loved their vibes. Captured their instrument as well ...
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Eighteen months, 19 modules, and 59 amazing contributors later, the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certification is complete! Looking back, my favourite part has been seeing so many community m...
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Good times were had. Here with Gwen Diagram, Kat Obring, Emily O'Connor and Ady Stokes.
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A feel-good memory from TestBash 2024. Simon Tomes, Sergio Freire and Gwen Diagram pose for a happy selfie.
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At the Leeds Testing Atelier I spoke about how we, as testers, can go from being gatekeepers to being quality coaches. One of the practical suggestions was to facilitate a test planning workshop wi...
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Giz Us a Job Goat. Diana Dromey's goat lives on at Leeds Atelier (she drew it last year). Thanks for an awesome Leeds Atelier!
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This snap from a sunny break at Leeds Testing Atelier captures just a few of the many brilliant contributors to the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC). In the pic are Gwen Diagra...
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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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