Marie Cruz

“Marie is among the most talented and inspiring people I have ever worked with. Her passion for technology and self-development is infectious. I watched Marie build her personal brand and become a rising star in the tech community, and I know she will go on to become a true leader in the field.”

“There are few professionals with whom you are in admiration of working , Marie is one of them! She's quite thorough about her job. At Zoopla, she laid a strong foundation for contract & accessibility testing and much more. A great leader with "Lead by Example" atitude. Above all an amiable human being with down-to-earth attitude. I'm certain we'll cross paths again..”

“Had the great pleasure of working with Marie at Zoopla, where we both managed teams of Quality Engineers. Marie has a real passion for Quality, self-improvement, team-improvement and developing the individual. All of this is well demonstrated by her contributions to the broader Quality and Engineering communities via her blogs, youtube channel and collaborations with events and organisations that she has contributed to. The worst bit of working with Marie? The day you don't anymore! Not only does Marie bring with her a fantastic depth of knowledge, but fabulously positive outlook and attitude, and a problem solving mindset that is part analytical, part focused on doing the right thing, the right way, at the right time. I will sincerely miss working with you, and hope our paths cross again.”

“Marie has been my manager at Zoopla for the last 9 months. One of the best managers & leaders in my career, I must add. We have closely worked together on Accessibility Testing and she mentored and guided me on introduction of automated accessibility tests using the cypress-axe plugin into our Cypress tests suite. A detailed journey is described in this blog post - https://zoopla.blog/posts/2022/accessibility-testing-cypress-axe/”

“Marie was my line manager in News UK for the past three years. During this time, I’ve seen her consistently excelled at everything she has done. She had been setting up multiple testing frameworks for various teams, training QAs and software engineers to write automation tests, setting up career framework for QA engineers in News and so on.
 As a manager, Marie is always providing helpful feedback, motivating us to take on challenging work and supporting us when we are having a difficult time. As a leader, she has built a vision for the team and this vision helps to unite team members and allows us to see the big picture. The most memorable character of Marie is her positive attitude and solutions mindset. She is someone I would always want to work with. ”

“I had the absolute pleasure of working with Marie when I was on The Sun and then in Product Platforms at News UK. She is an extremely detailed, dedicated, driven and passionate expert in her craft as a QA engineer. Marie drove the improvements to our engineering processes to enable our teams to deliver high quality code faster and went on to establish best practices and standards across the wider teams at News UK. Her determination has enabled her to create a strong personal brand and has earned her a well respected presence in the QA community. I would welcome the chance to work with Marie and would never hesitate to recommend her.”

“Marie and I worked together for our presentation at Women of Silicon Roundabout conference 2019. During this time we cooperated a lot in an excellent way. She has got real passion for quality improvement and process controls which showed in her presentation. Marie is very organised and has great ideas and vision. She is extremely polite and fair and has outstanding communicating skills. I have enjoyed working with Marie and can endorse her without hesitation.”

“I've had the pleasure of working with Marie at BP on a very complex trading/operations WPF application. The task was to refactor existing ViewModel test automation pack as well as to create a new framework. Marie constantly impressed me with her unique set of skills and her ability to quickly learn new technology, tools, language and platform and taking full ownership of the project. Marie has strong development skills combined with testing mindset. A perfect blend to be an exceptional Software Developer Engineer in Test. Marie is efficient, capable and personable, a great friend and lunch buddy. I would love to work with Marie again in future and would highly recommend her.”

“Marie worked with me as a Consultant tester whilst I was recruiting for a permanent role. Marie is Clever, proactive, passionate and so easy to get on with. I learned so much from Marie mainly because she was such a great teacher due to her manner and professionalism. I really wish I could of kept Marie, however i know she has gone on to spread her wealth of knowledge to other fortunate people! ”

“Marie is one of the most professional people I have had the privilege to work with. I know her from my days at University where she was an exceptional student, which led me to recommend her for a role at the company I was working at. While at QAWorks she quickly became a valued member of the company. She's worked on a range of projects designing and writing test automation frameworks for complex applications. I've seen her code, it's high quality - and that's not something I say lightly. She has the right mix of skills for being a software engineer in test: a strong software engineering skillset, a testing mindset and the ability to present her ideas clearly. ”

“I have worked closely with Marie on building automation frameworks at BP and I found her to be very capable, proactive and helpful. She has great technical skills and is able to pick up new technology stacks fairly quickly - would definitely like to work with her again and recommend her. ”

“Marie and I worked together on a large finance project, where we were developing our Test Automation framework, using C#. As I am new to C#, Marie was having to support me day to day and pass on her knowledge, as well as complete her allocated tasks. Marie was extremely conscientious and always made sure we were doing things as efficiently as possible. Marie was also instrumental in developing the basis of our Automated Regression suite, which is going to bring huge benefits for the whole test team. I really enjoyed working with Marie and would highly recommend her to any other employer.”

“Marie has been working with the Bennetts Biking Services IT team for a number of months as a Test Engineer and has been a pleasure to work with. She has been supporting our permanent test team with our BAU backlog as well as working on a brand new website where she has added substantial value with her knowledge and expertise. Marie has really hit the ground running in a fast paced Scrum team getting to grips with complex business processes and a broad range of applications.”

“Marie is an exellent Test Analyst and I really enjoyed working with her. Me and Marie were tasked into setting up an Test automation framework for our project. This was the first time Marie was involved with Selenium and automation. Marie was very quick in grasping the structure of the framework. Marie has a very good understanding of Java and always brings new ideas to the team. I would highly recommend Marie and would love to work with her again in the future.”