Let’s face it. Building tests tends to take more time than developing new features themselves. It is tedious to build sufficient coverage and cumbersome to maintain long-term. However, on an enterprise systems-level, tests are crucial in ensuring bugs or defects are caught before they reach clients. As engineers, we pour our hearts and souls into trying to identify defects before we release our code to clients. But when rolling out big features, it is rare to successfully complete a software deployment process without some errors popping up along the way. This challenge becomes...
Jacqueline Pan
Software Engineering Team Lead
Bloomberg
Jacqueline Pan is an automated testing enthusiast and works with multiple teams at Bloomberg to design and simplify their automated testing infrastructure. With five years of industry experience as a software engineer, Jacqueline leads the Trade Automation team for Bloomberg’s Buy-Side Order Management Enterprise Solution. She has led Bloomberg’s Women in Technology community of over 2,000 members for four years and spoken on numerous events about scaling impact as a software engineer. Jacqueline earned her MBA from Baruch University’s Zicklin School of Business and a Bachelors in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. She also founded and kickstarted a working group within Bloomberg’s Buy-Side Engineering department to standardize and collaborate on automated testing efforts.