2024-05-03 –, Connally Ballroom
Test engineers have always faced more limited prospects, but in the current job market even more so. This talk aims to show how test engineers can use their existing skills to make the move to DevOps and how DevOps engineers can embrace test engineer skills to increase their value in an increasingly competitive job market. Like the best session musicians, knowing more than one part can help you get the gig!
In this twenty-minute session, we’ll cover the current challenges test engineers face in the job market the go into detail on how test engineer experience translates well to DevOps. Next we’ll examine how test engineers can build upon these skills to make the move to DevOps. Finally, we’ll show that DevOps engineers can improve their own job prospects and market value by including test engineering as a part of their skill set.
Ada Lündhé is a Lead Engineer at Datavant, helming the Developer Experience team. Ada has a wide ranging background, ranging from web development and machine learning engineering to test and DevOps, which they use to build unique and unconventional solutions.