Hi there 👋

I'm Pooja, a developer turned, automation nerd and open source enthusiast. I love brainstorming and implementing crazy ideas to figure out ways to improve the product quality. Having a blend of Dev, QA & DevOps mindset, I strive to bridge the gaps between all the teams to attain the best results, i.e. Developer and Engineering Efficiency and Product Excellence. Driven by curiosity to learn & share new things every day, I pen them, open-source, record tutorials and talk about them at open conferences, some of the glimpses can be found here:

• I'm most excited about: Alice | Shield - A bot which solves Human Communication Problems, and shields from buggy code by enabling Continuos Integration safety pipeline.
• Medium: @TechGirlPooja | Twitter: TechGirlPooja
• YouTube: TechilaShots
• Web-site p00j4.github

Speaking Engagements 🎤

• Selenium Conference - India, London, Chicago Editions
• RootConf by HasGeek - India
• European Testing Conf - ETC Amsterdam
• Agile Testing Days - ATD Germany
• Agile India - Bengaluru
• STeP-IN forum
• The Test Tribe TTT

Contribution to Organising Conference ✍️

• Selenium Conference - India [2020, 2018, 2016]
• Appium Conf - India [2019, 2021]
• RootConf India [2018]

Championships

• Virtuoso Hackathon: we won for 2 categories - Automation main challenge and API hacking into CI/CD. Links coming up.
• Cignithon for automation and bug finding - [1st]
• Hackathon by AccelQ: First runner up (3rd)
• Moolympics #2 Experimenting with Selectors && Beliefs [1st]
• Moolympics #1 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐈/𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐮𝐠𝐬 [1st]
• Testathon - we rocked as a team and as an individual

Stand up with 🙌

Some of the work I highly recommend (because they are really good)

• NullCon - community events and workshops for spreading awareness on security.
• The Test Tribe TTT
• Giving Campaign at Microsoft
• Selectors Hub - one stop solution for easier life in UI Automation

Recommend

• People/Community who make awesome libraries/learnings available for FREE - HumbleFool, David Malan, Pepcoding, Simon Stewart and all Selenium Committers, Jason Huggins, Jonathan Lipps and all Appium committers, VodQA by ThoughtWorks, Test Automation University, Alan Richardson, Maaret Pyhäjärvi, Lisi Hocke, TestProject, your_name_can_come_here

#BLM #LifeMatters

Last but not the least

Do you relate with this?

My Charging Pods

• Pure singing
• Fitness for Life
• Indian Raga
• One Nation by Amit Trivedi crew
• Languages that I can manage: Hindi, English, Rajasthani, Marwadi, Kunchum Telugu, Swalpa Kannda, Malyalam (in next life, my bestie said)