Katrina Clokie has spent the last two decades building a successful career as a leader of software engineering and product management teams, most recently spending two and a half years in a CTO/CPTO role. Katrina is well-known in the software testing community as the author of A Practical Guide to Testing in DevOps and is regularly invited to keynote at international conferences.
Do you know what your next role looks like? Where do you want your career to take you? When your manager asks these sorts of questions, do you draw a blank? Let's spend some time together and ask ourselves thoughtful questions about what we value, what we're good at, and what our future looks like. This session is an opportunity to build your network, reflect, and articulate your ambition.
The rise of test automation is changing the testing landscape as organizations urgently accelerate their automation goals. As demand for automation increases, those accountable for testing roles are learning to write code, but few are learning the skills that support the creation of truly useful automated assets. Just as using a paintbrush does not make an artist, writing code does not make an engineer. Without a wider perspective, we can end up with test automation frameworks and tests that are inefficient and difficult to maintain. As a test practice manager at a major financial institution, Katrina Clokie has experience defining and implementing enterprise test automation strategy. Join Katrina as she challenges us to step back from coding and think about the bigger picture. Discover how to effectively evaluate existing test automation assets, define a vision for automation, collaborate on creating innovative automation solutions, apply automated visual regression, establish coding dojos, and develop and maintain stable automated suites.
