Olha Vovk
Sr. Staff Test Automation Engineer at PatientPoint
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Olha (Olga) was born and raised in Ukraine, moved to Kansas City, US 16 years ago, expecting lonely farms and tornados, but ended up in a decent size city with skyscrapers and a pretty cool tech community!
Olga is a self taught web developer who has switched to test automation career in 2015 and has fallen in love with DevOps concept and all things automated ever since. She is the organizer of Software Testing KC meetup, co-founder of QA Learning Center, and a passionate supporter of Women in Tech groups. She has recently graduated with an MBA in Management of Information Systems concentration.
Throughout her career Olga has assisted multiple clients with their test automation strategy and development needs. Among her recent projects were such companies as Bridgestone, ABF, Tyson, NAPA, United Rentals, Wendy's, Ford, Electrolux, UW and others.
Currently Olga is a Senior Staff Test Automation Engineer at PatientPont, leading a team of automation engineers working on automating testing for company's host of IoT devices used in medical facilities. She is particularly interested in a wholistic approach to test automation and implementing process driven solutions.
In her free time Olga likes to study neuroscience and modern philosophies, and bakes cakes with experimental fillings.
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Maturing your test automation strategy with the Design First approach
Test automation on a project often starts by writing test code for features, neglecting to design the architecture of the automated test solution from the wholistic point of view. While there is nothing wrong with starting that way, this is not be the most optimal approach when it comes to a complex integrated application. Fragmented test automation leaves the system under test vulnerable to coverage gaps on critical modules and connections in the future; and creates an impediment for scalability. I found it becoming a growing problem with the applications and systems under test getting more complex across the industry. The solution to the problem, no surprise here, needs to be also complex, wholistic and scalable. My team has learned, through trial and error, failure and success, how to use systems thinking to design an automation approach that focuses on architectural design and smart tooling for maintainable and scalable automated testing strategy.
This talk will demonstrate how you can apply system thinking to implement Design First approach and take your quality engineering to the next level of maturity.
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