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| + | :*[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-should-testers-know-ab-testing-vincent-dirks/?trackingId=mZ1Rs%2BMuDeORCB5OTnMhxg%3D%3D Presentation slides for WeTest Auckland - 30-Nov-2017- What should testers know about A/B Testing?] | ||
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:*[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploratory-testing-automated-auckland-presentation-vincent-dirks Exploratory Automation - Using dynamic data in automation] | :*[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/exploratory-testing-automated-auckland-presentation-vincent-dirks Exploratory Automation - Using dynamic data in automation] | ||
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| + | :*[https://leanpub.com/selenium-webdriver-book Selenium WebDriver, From Foundations To Framework, by Alex Collins and Yujun Liang] (Book Selenium Automation) | ||
:*[http://momtestbook.com/ 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) | :*[http://momtestbook.com/ 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) | ||
:*[https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Fragility/dp/081297381X The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. by Nassim Nicholas Taleb] (Book) | :*[https://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Improbable-Robustness-Fragility/dp/081297381X The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable. by Nassim Nicholas Taleb] (Book) | ||
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| + | :* <u>Postman</u> - 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. | ||
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| + | :''2017'' | ||
| + | :* Primarily focusing on learning the product and testing domain as they apply to my new Test Engineering role at [[Curriculum_Vitae_-_Vincent_Dirks#Intermediate_Test_Engineer_-_Fiserv_.28Jan_2017_-_Current.29|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. | ||
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:*I am starting on [[Katrina Clokie's Mobile Testing Pathway]] | :*I am starting on [[Katrina Clokie's Mobile Testing Pathway]] | ||
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Revision as of 04:28, 9 June 2020
Welcome to my cv, it's a wiki and I think that's pretty cool. I'd love your feedback. .
| Name | Vincent Dirks |
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| vincent@dirksonline.net | |
| Mob | 021-0269-6216 |
| nz.linkedin.com | |
| Location | Beautiful Parau, West Auckland |
Template:CoursesConferencesWorkshopsMeetings
Blogs & Slides
- 2017
- 2016
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.
- Primarily focusing on learning the product and testing domain as they apply to my new Test Engineering role at Fiserv
- 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
