[Neasis-l] Talk: Test Engineering the Googley Way

[Beata Panagopoulos]

Forwarded from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Talk: “Test Engineering the Googley Way” 
Speaker: Matt Vail, Google Software Engineer in Test 
When: Friday, May 9th, 2008 - 12-1 pm 
Where: Harvard University, Maxwell Dworkin, Room 119, 33 Oxford Street 

Matt Vail, Google Software Engineer in Test, will reveal secrets in a talk 
on "Test Engineering the Googley Way," Friday, May 9th, 2008, from 
12:00-1:00 pm in room 119, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street. 

What is a "Google Software Engineer in Test?” 

Matt shares his job description: 

"Your daily life at Google will include working with the development and 
test engineering teams to automate testing, building advanced automated 
test suites to exercise our world-class applications, conducting research 
on emerging technologies, driving test automation and framework 
development, and training and mentoring other team members. As a Software 
Engineer of varying talents, your responsibilities may also include 
aspects of project management, release engineering, task delegation, team 
coordination, and production monitoring." 

Matt, currently the QA Tech Lead for the Google Book Search project, also 
worked on the Google Mashup Editor. He graduated from North Carolina State 
University (B.S., M.S. in Computer Science) and is on leave from the Ph.D. 
Computer Science program at the University of Massachusetts. Matt enjoys 
programming in the rain, long walks along the Mountain View campus, and 
finding bugs in code with that special engineering team. 

Free and Open to the Public 

Sponsored by Harvard's ABCD Quality Assurance Working Group. For more 
details see the website 
<http://www.abcd.harvard.edu/harvard/groups/abcd-qa/>or contact 
chhill at fas.harvard.edu <mailto:chhill at fas.harvard.edu>.