A Roundtable Discussion with Quality Engineering Leaders
There are lots of spaces to discuss the many challenges that individual contributors face, however, few available for engineering leaders such as team leads, managers, directors, and executives.
Look no more...this webinar is for you!
Listen in as Mike Lyles, Erika Chestnut, Stephanie Dukes, and Mike Clark chat about the challenges and triumphs of leading quality initiatives for engineering teams. Joe Colantonio will moderate this roundtable discussion and will be sure to include your questions as well.
Learn how others are going about leading their teams in the midst of a global pandemic, how they are deciding on strategy and selecting the proper tooling to enable efficiency on the team. Hear about mistakes and lessons learned, and cheer them on as they celebrate team wins.
DATE: Thursday, August 26, 2021
TIME: 1 PM ET
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Expert Speakers
Moderator: Joe Colantonio
Founder, TestGuild
Joe Colantonio is the founder of TestGuild, a site dedicated to test automation, which includes TestTalks, a weekly podcast that geeks out on all things software test automation. Author of the UFT API Testing Manifesto, Joe's mission is helping people succeed with test automation.
Mike Lyles
IT Director, Bridgtree
Mike Lyles is a Director of QA and Project Management with over 25 years of IT experience in multiple organizations, including Fortune 50 companies. Mike has been successful in career development, team building, coaching, and mentoring for over two decades. Mike has been an international keynote speaker at multiple events, and is also a John Maxwell Team coach, speaker, and trainer. He is the author of the motivational, self-help book, “The Drive-Thru Is Not Always Faster”. You can learn more about Mike at www.MikeWLyles.com where you can also find his social media links and connect with him there also. His book site is at www.TheDriveThruBook.com .
Erika Chestnut
Head of Quality & Process Engineering, Thrasio
Fun. Clever. Sassy. Erika’s leadership style begins and ends with relationships. With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry - from application development to spinning up new quality departments - Erika has learned to lead with grace, patience and a little bit of snarky humor. Her mission is to help Business Leaders, Founders and Quality Champions ensure quality is at the core of their company.
Stephanie Dukes
Head of Quality Engineering, Credit Karma
As head of Quality Engineering at Credit Karma, Stephanie oversees a team — which she built out herself — of engineers focused on developing quality and security standards adopted by the company’s engineering organization, which makes up more than half of Credit Karma’s workforce. Since joining Credit Karma more than six years ago, Stephanie has spearheaded major engineering initiatives and quality practices that have improved Credit Karma’s entire development lifecycle that powers a secure and optimized user experience for the company’s more than 110 million members. Beyond her role as director of engineering, Stephanie is a true culture carrier at Credit Karma where she co-founded and leads Credit Karma’s LGBTQIA+ ERG, and serves on Credit Karma’s larger Engineering DEI committee.
Mike Clark
Mike Clark has been working in IT industry for over 25 years is a QA Engineering Manager at iSpot.tv, managing the resources, architecture, and planning for their front end and back end testing activities, as it pertains to the home site, as well as customer analytics site. His management responsibilities include but are not limited to manual, automated, and API testing, as well as coaching their QA staff on their development goals. He has a love for software testing and all things that encompass the amazing profession. Outside of the office, Mike continues to be a student of testing, learning new testing techniques, practices, and methodologies providing more opportunities for him to coach his team on the latest and greatest, as well as to conduct proof of concepts to see if what they’ve learned can bring value to the work they are doing today.
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Fun. Clever. Sassy. Erika’s leadership style begins and ends with relationships. With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry - from application development to spinning up new quality departments - Erika has learned to lead with grace, patience and a little bit of snarky humor. Her mission is to help Business Leaders, Founders and Quality Champions ensure quality is at the core of their company.
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It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.
Erika Chestnut
Head of Quality & Process Engineering, Thrasio
Fun. Clever. Sassy. Erika’s leadership style begins and ends with relationships. With over 20 years of experience in the tech industry - from application development to spinning up new quality departments - Erika has learned to lead with grace, patience and a little bit of snarky humor. Her mission is to help Business Leaders, Founders and Quality Champions ensure quality is at the core of their company.
Stephanie Dukes
Quality Engineering, Credit Karma
As head of Quality Engineering at Credit Karma, Stephanie oversees a team — which she built out herself — of engineers focused on developing quality and security standards adopted by the company’s engineering organization, which makes up more than half of Credit Karma’s workforce. Since joining Credit Karma more than six years ago, Stephanie has spearheaded major engineering initiatives and quality practices that have improved Credit Karma’s entire development lifecycle that powers a secure and optimized user experience for the company’s more than 110 million members. Beyond her role as director of engineering, Stephanie is a true culture carrier at Credit Karma where she co-founded and leads Credit Karma’s LGBTQIA+ ERG, and serves on Credit Karma’s larger Engineering DEI committee. When she’s not at work, Stephanie enjoys spending time volunteering in dog rescue, playing the ukulele and spending time with her wife Jennifer and their two senior dogs, Buzz and Ruby.
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