Making the transition from manual testing to full test automation is hard. Consultants, vendors, speakers and the internet all have their own recommendations about how to get started. The challenge is that sometimes those recommendations do not align to your business’s development strategy or security protocols. So who is right? Do you shirk your company’s best practices that have been developed over time in favor of what the industry says is the ideal configuration? Will the testing rules be the same tomorrow? Maybe it’s time to blaze your own testing trail. In this session, Ingrid Warden...
Ingrid Warden
Software Test Architect
Equity Residential
Ingrid Warden is a Software Test Architect at Equity Residential and has a bachelors degree in Accounting from Augusta University. She has worked at Equity Residential for 25 years, spending the first 18 years moving up the ranks in Accounting before realizing that her interest in, and talent for, technology was better served in the IT Group. Ingrid made the switch to IT in 2017 where she started as a Business Systems Analyst, creating FRD’s and test plans for the Finance and Accounting teams, to Quality Assurance Analyst then Software Test Architect. With the growing focus and need for test automation, she uses her vast enterprise experience to help guide Equity’s path toward a more streamlined testing strategy.