Jenny Bramble on Testing and Collaboration at Papa

Elixir Wizards

Today on Elixir Wizards, we chat with Jenny Bramble. Jenny is the Director of Quality Engineering at Papa, a platform that connects older adults and low-income families with companionship and a helping hand with daily tasks. Tune in to learn more about Jenny's experience with testing and team collaboration at Papa.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Jenny tells us about her journey to learning Elixir (for 8 years now!)
• We learn about the 24 talks that Jenny has done as a keynote speaker
• The breakdown of her talk this year at Elixir Conf on upgrades
• How Jenny got in to writing tests after going to college for computer science
• What goes into developer handoff and how that varies depending on the company and team
• The connection and importance between customer service and empathy
• What it's like to work in Quality Engineering and Testing at Papa
• What is testing?
• She provides helpful tips of things that tend to be caught up by QA during code reviews
• Jenny has a course on management for Test Automation coming out in 2023!

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Jenny Bramble on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennybramble/
Jenny Bramble on Twitter — https://twitter.com/jennydoesthings
Jenny Bramble on GitHub -- https://github.com/jennydoesthings
Papa -- https://www.papa.com/
SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/
SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic