🚀 We are back! With a testing event filled with 4 talks.
Here are some topics and extracts from some of our speakers:
TBA - Peter Gaffney & Aiden Hughes
Extract: TBA
TBA - Eoghan McLaughlin & Seanin Breslin
Extract: "How they got interested in testing; what it is and why it's important; the rise of automated testing; the difference between functional and non-functional testing; the tech stack for testing; and what soft skills are required."
How to Test with Jest (and Cypress) - Gary Moore
Extract: A walk through the testing pyramid, with code examples guiding you through the practical use of Jest and Cypress to write automated tests for your JavaScript or TypeScript project. Learn how to write unit tests, integration, and end-to-end tests using Jest and Cypress. We also briefly look at alternative tools such as vitest, and playwright.
Life @ Alchemy - Andrea Cole & John Carson
Extract: TBA
Food and drinks will be provided.
CME generously sponsors this event.
IBM
Software Engineer
CME Group
Software Engineer in Test
CME Group
Software Engineer in Test
Kainos
Graduate Test Engineer
Kainos
Graduate Test Engineer
Alchemy Technology Services
QA Analyst
Alchemy Technology Services
Technical Analyst
Gary is a Full-Stack Software Developer at IBM, working on cybersecurity software with experience in tools such as Next.js, React, NodeJS, and Java. Gary is also a former member of the Ulster University Computing Society.
Graduated from Queen's University Belfast in July 2021 after completing a Software Development MSc conversion course. Previously performed manual testing and BA roles in Pharma and DRLG industries. Joined CME Group in December 2021 as had a keen interest in automated testing and wished to upskill. Since joining CME have completed performance testing and resiliency testing rotations.
Graduated from Ulster University in July of this year after completing a BEng in Software Engineering. Completed my placement year as an Intern with CME Group and stayed with the company part-time whilst completing my studies and learning more about automated testing. Joined CME Group as a Software Engineer in Test in June of this year where I am working on an ultra-low latency trading application. My project is to develop a test framework to carry out component testing more easily in a microservice architecture.
Eoghan studied Information Technologies at Ulster University (Magee campus) and graduated in 2020. He also completed an industrial placement as a Support Analyst in the third year of his degree. He started working as a Customer Support Specialist in August 2020 shortly after graduating and then joined Kainos as a Test Engineer in June of this year. He has since completed the Engineering Academy and began working on his first project.
Seanin has recently graduated from Ulster University, Magee, this summer with a degree in Computer Science. She has been in Kainos for 2 months now, so She has just completed our Testing and Engineering Academy which is where she learnt all the skills she has so far as she had previously had no experience in testing at all. Currently in Kainos, she waiting for a couple of legal documents to be reviewed before she can get started on her first project.
