How Guild Education Automates

Talk Description

At Guild Education, we support our testing efforts with automation and are always seeking more ways to make our testing more efficient and effective. We've succeeded in many ways already and are hoping to continue that journey.

When I joined the company in 2021, we faced numerous challenges benefiting from automation. We had some siloed test automation solutions being done on each team but no guidelines on a more enterprise-wide strategy that focused on optimized and efficient solutions. We discovered that not only were we repeating tests, but that those results were not shared across multiple teams or reviewed by other quality engineers.

We've overcome them now and are achieving great results from our automation. We're benefitting from a centralized repository, but also created what we call "prime time" guidelines that both align with our software engineer counterparts and that scale. Some of those results will include deeper discussion on our bespoke "Tests as a Service" approach, meaningful metrics, and the "Leave no Trace" method.

In this talk, I'm going to share more details on those challenges and the approaches and tools we use to overcome them. I'll also share the current challenges we're facing and our future plans to solve them.

By the end of this session, you'll be able to:

Melissa Tondi

Head of Technology Enablement

Melissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within software testing teams. She is a frequent speaker and writer at forums focusing on the Agile, QA/QE, and DevOps spaces and is in Enablement leadership at Campminder and a Principal Consultant at Disrupt Testing, where she assists companies to continuously improve the pursuit of quality software—from design to delivery and everything in between. In her software testing and quality engineering careers, Melissa has focused on building and organizing teams around three major tenets—efficiency, innovation, and culture – and uses the Greatest Common Denominator (GCD) approach for determining ways in which team members can assess, implement and report on day to day activities so the gap between need and value is as small as possible.