Q & A with Angie Jones @ Cengage Learning

About the Event:

Angie Jones, the latest superstar on the software testing lecture circuit, has made herself available to give a short Q & A session to the Ministry of Testing - Boston, broadcasting to us live from Twitter in San Francisco, where she has been working as a Senior Automation Engineer (SDET) since May 2017.

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Angie will be starting her live Q & A session with us at 7:30 pm EDT.

T.J. Maher was thinking it would be fun to screen a video of her wonderfully rated talk she gave in Austin, Texas for the Selenium Conference 2017 back in April 2017, "The Build That Cried Broken: Building Trust in Your Continuous Integration Tests". Yes, you can watch it alone, by yourself on YouTube on a teeny tiny screen... but where is the fun in that? Let's watch it on the big screen! ... Anybody got any popcorn?

This event will be hosted by Cengage Learning. Food will be provided. Still seeking popcorn.

Itinerary:

• 6:00 pm to 6:30 pm: Members gather and meet-and-greet

• 6:30 pm: We start screening one of Angie's talks.

• 7:30 pm: Q & A with Angie!

Where to Meet:

Cengage Learning is a twelve minute walk from South Station. It is at 20 Channel Center Street, Boston, MA.

About the Speaker:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angiejones/

• Blog: http://angiejones.tech

• Interview with Hexawise: "Testing Smarter with Angie Jones": https://hexawise.com/posts/smarter-software-testing-with-angie-jones

• June 26, 2017: Angie is giving a free Webinar for Software Test Professionals: Make Your Automation Behave: Extending Your Framework for BDD: Register here: http://www.softwaretestpro.com/training/make-your-automation-behave-extending-your-framework-for-bdd/

Angie Jones, according to LinkedIn is a "Consulting Automation Engineer who advises multiple agile teams on automation strategies and has developed automation frameworks for countless software products. Certified Java programmer with a knack for innovation. Creator of more than 20 patented inventions in the areas of collaboration software, social networking, virtual worlds, smarter planet, and software development processes. International public speaker who teaches workshops and gives conference talks on agile automation strategies".

She's been a Software Engineer at IBM where Triangle Times as a "mover and shaker in the IBM corporation". An Adjunct Professor at Durham Technical Community College teaching Java programming. A Consulting Automation Engineer at Lexis Nexis, and is now at Twitter as a Senior Software Engineer in Test.

Her LinkedIn profile mentions she is "Committed to mentoring young women and exposing them to technology. In spare time, runs an online community, Diva Chix, where teenage girls and women learn to excel in technological areas as well as learn other key life lessons such as running a business and working as a team...all within the realm of a game".

For the past two years she has been a volunteer for Black Girls Code, http://www.blackgirlscode.com/ , where she is a chapter tech lead, planning "workshops for the RD Chapter of BGC. Train technical volunteers. Teach technology workshops for minority girls aged 7-17. Workshop topics include Building a Web Page, Creating a Game, and Building a Mobile App, Robotics, and IoT".

Angie contributed a chapter to The Digital Quality Handbook: https://angiejones.tech/continuous-quality-in-devops/

About our Sponsor:

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Parking:

Need Parking? The Channelside Lot on 284 A Street, Boston MA offers parking. The entrance is 55 Necco Street. You can also pre-purchase parking ( https://bostonparking.spplus.com/boston-284-a-street-gillette-parking.html ).