Test Automation Meetup – January 2025

Kristin Jackvony is a Principal Engineer III for Software Testing at Paylocity. She is the author of two books: "The Complete Software Tester" and "Logical Fallacies for Testers", and is the creator of two courses: "Postman Essential Training" and "Monday Morning Automation".

She blogs regularly at her site, thinkingtester.com.

With over 20 years of experience in QA automation, I am a passionate and skilled leader who can design, implement, and manage effective and efficient testing solutions for various domains and technologies. I have a proven track record of delivering high-quality results, reducing costs, and increasing productivity for my clients and employers.

As a Quality Assurance Manager at FreightVerify Inc, I managed a team of 13 SDETs on 1300+ test suites, reviewed and approved GitLab merge requests, provided historical progress reports in Allure, tracked projects and issues in Jira, performed candidate tech interviews, and achieved a quick win of nightly execution of four suites in three environments.

Previously, as a Lead Software Test Engineer at Guaranteed Rate, I managed five automation projects with seven SDET resources using a common JavaScript WebdriverIO test framework, optimized manual testers setup time with an RPA custom loan creation tool, and accelerated late night production release with testRigor, a no-code testing tool that enabled me to write tests in plain English and find multiple defects in real time.

Larry Goddard is the Test Automation Architect at Oxford University Press (OUP) with responsibility for developing the organisations Testing Strategy and Framework.

Larry is a member of BCS – The Chartered Institute for IT (MBCS), co-founder & CEO of the KLASSI brand, Creator of 'klassi-js' a open-source Test Automation Framework, Larry is also a Mentor (Aleto Foundation, Black Girls in Tech and Private Individuals) and Speaker at Tech Conferences and meet-ups dealing with and highlighting Test Automation.