Gwen Diagram
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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Contributions

How to go from being a gatekeeper to being a quality coach image
  • Jitesh Gosai's profile
  • Ash Winter's profile
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Emily O'Connor 's profile
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...
The final moments at Leeds Atelier image
  • Ash Winter's profile
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Diana Dromey's profile
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!
STEC in the sunshine! image
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Sarah Deery's profile
  • Emily O'Connor 's profile
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...
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 26 image
  • Beren Van Daele's profile
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Diana Dromey's profile
  • Andrew Morton's profile
  • Veerle Verhagen's profile
  • Emily O'Connor 's profile
Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
Cosmic discussion: the possibilities of Systems Thinking image
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Karime Salomon's profile
  • Nithin SS's profile
  • Hibri Marzook 's profile
Valuable insights on applying systems thinking to testing practices to enhance both individual and team performances
The Explorers, the band that never was image
  • Mark Winteringham's profile
  • Christopher Chant's profile
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Simon Tomes's profile
Four people. A woman and three men standing next to each other looking cool at the camera – they are attempting to look like they are in a band. One of them is holding a phone with a picture of ano...
Cosmic Discussion: Tips to get the best out of TestBash image
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Betty Okwedadi's profile
  • Heather C's profile
  • Conor O'Neill's profile
Learn how to get the best out of any software testing conference
Caption This! image
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Simon Tomes's profile
A fun game that takes us down TestBash Brighton memory lane
99 Second Talks - Day 2 at TestBash Brighton 2024 image
  • Stu Day's profile
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Danny Dainton's profile
  • Vernon Richards's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Andrew Hart's profile
  • Simon Rigler's profile
  • Christine Pinto's profile
  • Andrew Morton's profile
  • Veerle Verhagen's profile
  • Richard Adams's profile
  • Beth Barker's profile
  • Matthew Saunby's profile
  • Philippa Jennings's profile
  • Georga Turner's profile
  • Shweta Jaju's profile
  • Bharathi S's profile
  • Tom Game's profile
  • Nagendra Vadakattu's profile
  • Cristian Balau's profile
  • Abilio Oliveira's profile
The more 99 Second Talks, the better!
James Wadley, Gwen Diagram and Ben Dowen at pre-bash social image
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • James Wadley's profile
  • Ben Dowen's profile
James Wadley, Gwen Diagram and Ben Dowen at pre-bash social
The wonderful TestBash 2024 ambassadors  image
  • Sarah Kitchener's profile
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Louise Gibbs's profile
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Sarah Deery's profile
  • Diana Dromey's profile
  • Gabbi Trotter's profile
  • Christine Pinto's profile
  • Kirsten Reher's profile
  • James Wadley's profile
  • Andrew Morton's profile
  • Russell Thomas's profile
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Tina Gohil's profile
  • Teresa Reynolds's profile
  • Richard Hinton's profile
  • Scout Burghardt's profile
  • Nikoleta Koumpouzi's profile
  • Emily O'Connor 's profile
  • Nurseda Balcioglu's profile
  • Heather C's profile
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