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263: So You Want to Be a SeleniumConf Speaker with Marcus Merrell

28 July 2019 at 12:00 PM
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263: So You Want to Be a SeleniumConf Speaker with Marcus Merrell

Do you dream of becoming a testing conference speaker, but are unsure about how to get your talk accepted at an event? In this episode, Marcus Merrell, Director of Technical Services at Sauce Labs (and one of the lead organizers of the Selenium Conference) will some thoughts on running a testing event as well as what it takes to be a competent speaker. He’ll also share some insights regarding a cool new product from Sauce Labs to help you with performance testing. Check it out!

About Marcus Merrell

Marcus Merrell

Marcus Merrell has been working in quality engineering for 18 years. He has been using Selenium/WebDriver since 2007 and is a contributor to the Selenium project and the co-chair of the Selenium Conference Organizing Committee. He has released several open-source projects for testing and IoT.

As a solution architect at Sauce Labs, Marcus is well qualified to help customers with his expertise in release management, CI/CD, cloud software and container management. He is also experienced in analytics and marketing automation.
Marcus frequently speaks at conferences worldwide.

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