You may have heard the saying “The only constant on any project is change.” Yet the prospect of change is rarely welcomed—either personally or professionally. How is it that we still believe that these changes apply to others but not to us? Julie Gardiner says that now is the time to re-evaluate and transform how we do testing in order to deliver more value to organizations—from a people, processes, and tools perspective. Join Julie as she shares current experiences of transformations and lessons learned within different organizations. She discusses an automation framework that ended up...
Julie Gardiner
Julie has more than twenty years' experience in the IT industry, including time spent as a developer, database analyst, project and program manager, test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, and test manager. She is now director of consulting at Hitachi Consulting, providing consultancy and training in all aspects of agile and testing, specializing in risk, agile testing, test management, and people and transitioning issues. She is also a certified ScrumMaster and agile coach. An enthusiastic and motivated presenter, Julie is a regular speaker at agile and testing events and has won best presentation designations at STAREAST, EuroSTAR, STARWEST, ADPEast, STANZ, ANZTB, Innovative Test Management Conferences, and Czech Test.