3 Lightning Talks - API, iOS and Web Testing Tips!

We have 3 talks scheduled for January 14th. The talk is hosted by Slack!

5:30 - Food & Networking

6:00 - "Building iOS Apps and Confidence - Making Slack a 'good' place to work" - Doug Lam - Slack

6:30 - "Building automated testing from scratch for backend REST APIs" - Svetlana Levinsohn - Tally

7:00 - "Retrofitting a Testing Culture at Pinterest" - Jennifer Uvina - Pinterest

7:30 - Doors close, go home.

About the speakers:

• Doug Lam (he/him) is an engineer on the Mobile Developer Experience team and has been with Slack for over two years. Prior to Slack Doug, founded the automated testing and infrastructure team for iOS at Netflix. When not working he can be found cleaning up after his one year old daughter or playing golf around the South Bay.

• Svetlana Levinsohn is a Sr. Software Developer in Test who is leading test automation efforts at Tally. She has been in Software QA Engineering for over 7 years, building front-end and back-end automation frameworks. Svetlana has taught and mentored many QA professionals during these years. She is a creator and a teacher of API Testing and Selenium Automation courses at JobEasy.ai QA Academy.

• Jennifer Uviña is a full-stack web engineer that has worked at consultancies, agencies, and product-focused startups. She prides herself on improving company culture and standards while focusing on end-user experience. She is currently at Pinterest where she spends her days ensuring Metrics Quality is upheld and working on Test Tools.