Navigating Rapid Change: How I Gave Birth to Dev Testing and a Baby in 9 Months

Talk Description

If we've learned nothing else from the events of this past year, it's that life comes at you fast. Change is inevitable and often unpredictable. In the case of my company, what we did see coming was the kind of change that comes with a due date - half the automation testing team was going to be out on maternity leave at the same time; but a baby wasn’t all we were asked to deliver;

An oft dreaded decision was made out of necessity and hopefully opportunity - Dev's will own their feature test automation. Simple right?
But wait - Can dev's test? Will they agree to it? And since we're among friends here - will we ever be able to trust them to do it well enough?

This is a story that can happen at any organization, at any time and for any reason.
Join me on my race to scale quality and discover how we spun necessity into opportunity with practical tips from the trenches on influencing change in an agile environment like setting the foundation for coaching developers, maintaining company investment, how we trained developers in test automation and helped them to adopt a quality mindset and tips on sharing ownership.

What You'll Learn

• Setting the stage for successful dev testing - upskilling the core automation team to coach developers in test automation
• Maintaining buy-in from stakeholders (business, product, dev) as new priorities arise
• Training developers to successfully own their feature test automation- the curriculum, the quality mindset, keeping it fun and attitude management

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

Naomi Fleisher

Automation Lead

With 9 years experience and counting in the field of quality specializing in test automation, management, coaching and quality advocacy, I have been fortunate to have worked on automation solutions across the testing gamut as well as coach testers, developers, product owners and business stakeholders on various aspects of the quality process. The combination of hard and soft skills that testing requires (combined with just the right amount of paranoia!) is one of the many things that I love about test automation. When I'm not automating something, I can be found hanging out with my husband and kids, doing something fitness related or singing in the car.