Curriculum Vitae - Vincent Dirks

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Blogs & Slides

2017

• Presentation slides for WeTest Auckland - 30-Nov-2017- What should testers know about A/B Testing?

2016

• Exploratory Automation - Using dynamic data in automation
• How agile helps you spend less time regression testing
• Processes are my Passion
• Agile developers' need for speed - When is fast too fast?

2014

• Oh what fun it is to do a little coding...
• Testers: mind the developer's ego!

What I'm reading...watching...listening

Regular Podcasts & publications

• TestTalks by Joe Colantonio (link TBD)
• Testing Trapeze (link TBD)

in progress or on the to do list

• Selenium WebDriver, From Foundations To Framework, by Alex Collins and Yujun Liang (Book Selenium Automation)
• The Mom Test, by Rob Fitzpatrick, How to talk to customers and learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you. (Book, Lean Startups)
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Book)
• Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach. by Cem Kaner, James Bach, Bret Pettichord (Book, Testing)
• Opening Keynote Session with Dr. Joseph Sirosh: Azure - the Cloud Supercomputer for AI
• Selenium WebDriver : Difference Between findElement and findElements with example
• Cucumber with Selenium (Automation, series of videos)

Nov 2016

• Social Lean Canvas a tool to help social entrepreneurs apply the rigours of Lean Startup to ventures that have social or environmental goals

Oct 2016

• The future of quality is easy with EaaSy and Minimum Viable Quality blog by R.K.Johnston (Agile Testing)
• Functional Automated Testing Best Practices with Selenium WebDriver by Ben Burton (Video, Testing, Automation)
• The Joel Test: 12 Steps to Better Code by Joel Spolsky (Blog)
• Parkinson's law of triviality (aka Bike-shedding) (Wikipedia)
• You are not where you think you are - GPS Spoofing How to by David Robinson/Karit (@nzkarit) – ZX Security, Unrestcon 2016
• Heuristic Testng Dice (Testing)
• Uncle Bob Martin: The Agile Manifesto, 15 years later (Agile)
• 4 essential body language tips from a world champion public speaker (Presenting)
• Testing Trapeze Magazine - October 2016 (Testing)
• Hand Signals at meetings to reduce interruptions (Agile)

New things I'm learning and trying out

2018

• Postman - developing a framework that allows orchestration of calls in any API endpoint collection to mimic a number of typical user sessions with Fiserv's mobile apps. Also designing it to be re-usable across many testing, certification, and production environments, and for any Financial Institution configured in those environments. Previous API automation suites were all close tied to a specific data configuration of a mocked environment, and could not be used in fully integrated environments.

2017

• Primarily focusing on learning the product and testing domain as they apply to my new Test Engineering role at Fiserv
  • Extended internal SpecFlow (C#) suite of API automation checks for our interface with Card Services
  • Powershell scripts to help make manual deployments more efficient.

Dec 2016

• I am starting on Katrina Clokie's Mobile Testing Pathway

Nov 2016

• I did a W3C tutorial on XPATH. I'll give it a go next time I write some web automation scripts.
• Made a Protractor and node.js automation suite for Crimson Login Page
• Made a Selenium automation suite for www.provokesolutions.com

Oct 2016

• bootcamp@elementalselenium.com
• Selenium - setting it up on my mac with Maven. Exploring it with ole.saintkentigern.com.
• Bootstrap - writing a static page showing 10 iFrames to show on a mobile - no joy so far
• HTML - showing 10 iFrames side by side horizontally, one for each subject my son has at school.

Sep 2016

• WikiMedia - using the wikipedia engine to set up this cvwiki and other wiki's