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Marie is a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs and a software tester with almost 10 years of experience. She has also worked as an Engineering Manager and Principal Engineer, with a focus on continuous testing, quality improvements, and test automation. She is the co-author of Contract Testing in Action and teaches courses in testing. She helps engineers improve manual and automated testing skills, prepare for technical interviews, and build practical testing plans.
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Marie Cruz is a Software Tester with almost 10 years of experience working with various industries. Currently, she works as a Senior Developer Advocate for Grafana Labs, where she is focused on helping developers and testers from an observability and performance testing perspective. In the past, she has been an Engineering Manager, where she was recruited for driving continuous testing, and quality improvements within the organization, and also a Principal Engineer focused on introducing recommended practices when it comes to testing and test automation frameworks. Marie is a tech blogger at testingwithmarie.com, an international speaker, an accessibility advocate, and an online course instructor at Ministry of Testing and Test Automation University.
Marie is also the co-author of the book, Contract Testing in Action, the first book dedicated to Contract Testing. Get your copy here: https://shortener.manning.com/qOn2
5 out of 5 stars
Marie is an incredible mentor. I saught mentorship to improve my manual testing and test automation skills so I could get my foot into testing as a Junior. We started of by getting a concrete idea of what it is we wanted to achieve then I got the opurtunity to do assignment and give my results back to her. We also did interviws both techincal and non technical. What I really liked about the experience was that each one took me out of my comfort zone and gaive me the chance to make improvements in my work. The mentorship made me more aware of the impact that my work as a tester has within teams and also how I can make simple adjustments to improve my work. Thanks Marie
Standard Plan • 4 months
5 out of 5 stars
Had a few months of sessions with Marie, and can only recommend her. On the first session, we quickly found a common language, and that made our communication easy and efficient - scheduling following sessions, and the topics which we were going to discuss, as well as action points were agreed together. I mostly asked questions where I was seeking feedback, and what helped me the most was that she listened and provided insights from angles that I didn't notice before. Helped me move to the next step with all my projects and issues I had.
Standard Plan • 3 months
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Marie Cruz
Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs
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