Building a Software Quality Process from the Ground up with Evan Niedojadlo

Published on: 11/14/2021

Evan Niedojadlo TestGuild AutomationFeature

About this Episode:

How do you build a software quality process from the ground up? in this episode, Evan Niedojadlo, an engineer at Peddle, shares his real-world experience of how he did it. Discover how to get leadership and team buy-in, where to begin with testing, know what to automate, what metrics he used, what he would do differently today, and much more. Listen up!

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About Evan Niedojadlo

evan niedojadlo

Evan Niedojadlo is an engineer that's currently focused on reliability, distributed systems, and infrastructure with some security sprinkled on top.

He co-organizes the Austin Automation Professionals and Austin Computer Book Club to provide a welcoming space for folks to learn.

Austin Automation Professionals:
www.meetup.com/Austin-Automation-Professionals

Austin Computer Book Club:
www.meetup.com/Austin-Computer-Book-Club

Connect with Evan Niedojadlo

Company: Peddle
Blog: hevanniedojadlo.github.io
Twitter: eniedojadlo
LinkedIn: evanniedojadlo/
YouTube: randomthoughtstech
Github: evanniedojadlo

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