“I had the pleasure of working with Jess at HashiCorp for more than a year. I was the team lead and she was our engineering manager. We inherited a team with a loose structure that had symptoms of engineers feeling isolated on their own projects, status updates and expected handoffs were hard to come by, and overall a talented a great team, but team cohesion could improve. Jess and I immediately clicked on how we wanted things to change and how we would try implementing change without overloading or being heavy handed. We were able to greatly improve the overall team cohesion and morale, as well as improve the outward communication of the team and confidence in how we worked and promises we made. Jess prioritizes honesty, openness, straight talk and a sense of humor. She has your back to the end andis appreciate by her peers, her leaders, as well as engineers that report to her. She brings a great background of testing knowledge to help round out a team of engineers and provide a welcome customer and quality angle. She is fantastic manager and I hope to work with her againin the future.”
Experience
Education
Publications
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Creating a Learning Organization
Salesforce Engineering Blog
Supporting team members throughout their career journeys involves more than providing access to training or even providing great career advice. Learning experts agree that the best learning happens when peers co-create learning and meaning together. This post will explore the methods that the quality engineering team on the Non Profit and Education clouds have used to create a supportive, reciprocal peer learning culture that drives improvement and engagement.
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Tackle New Challenges With Learning Theory
Salesforce Engineering Blog
The core of the work that I do, and that I coach others to do, comes from a variety of learning theories I encountered during my years as a classroom teacher. Learning theories explore the “how” and “why” of learning to help enhance the educational experience. There are many different learning theories, useful in every discipline. This post will briefly introduce how the Zone of Proximal Development, scaffolding, and metacognition apply to any learning challenge.
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Becoming a Technical Leader: How Great Managers are Like Great Teachers
InfoQ
Jess is interviewed by InfoQ Magazine to learn more about her differentiated management approach, with roots in education.
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Jess Interview with Linux Format Magazine
Linux Format
In this interview, Jess talks about teaching Python to kids, and the connections between music and code.
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Make Your Code Bulletproof with Property Based Testing
TechBeacon
When people talk about code coverage, they usually mean statement coverage. The goal for some is to "cover" all possible statements in the codebase with tests. Yet a simple division program can have 100% statement coverage and still generate problematic results when asked to divide by zero.
The problem is that test engineers write mostly example-based tests where only one input scenario is tested. Property testing is a useful addition to your test suite because it runs one statement…When people talk about code coverage, they usually mean statement coverage. The goal for some is to "cover" all possible statements in the codebase with tests. Yet a simple division program can have 100% statement coverage and still generate problematic results when asked to divide by zero.
The problem is that test engineers write mostly example-based tests where only one input scenario is tested. Property testing is a useful addition to your test suite because it runs one statement hundreds of times with different inputs. Property testing frameworks use almost every conceivable input that could break your code, such as empty lists, negative numbers, and really long lists or strings. -
Driving Impact as the Lone Tester
Cross Browser Testing
Jess writes about how she has used her experience as the solo tester in small and mid-level startups to drive impact throughout those organizations.
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Python Projects for Kids
Packet Publishing
Introduction to Python 2.7 through text-based games. For ages 10+
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Assessment in the General Music Classroom: A contextual examination
ProQuest Dissertation
Jessica’s 2015 multiple case study about formative assessment practices in three urban music classrooms reveals how formative assessment, when revealed and understood, can enhance learning outcomes.
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Fragmentation in Mobile Testing
TestRail
Jess addresses factors leading to fragmentation in mobile testing and gives strategies for prioritizing what testing is the most important.
Projects
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Develop and Refine your Company Testing Strategy
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Every quality director wants to implement a modern, forward-looking testing strategy, and many test managers look to other companies to figure out the "magic bullet" for achieving excellent quality quickly and reliably. But the truth is that everything you need to know about your best test strategy is already in your company. In this workshop you will use your quality priorities, strategies, and code base as the foundation for defining and improving your testing strategy. You’ll work…
Every quality director wants to implement a modern, forward-looking testing strategy, and many test managers look to other companies to figure out the "magic bullet" for achieving excellent quality quickly and reliably. But the truth is that everything you need to know about your best test strategy is already in your company. In this workshop you will use your quality priorities, strategies, and code base as the foundation for defining and improving your testing strategy. You’ll work individually and in small groups to examine your current testing structure and methodologies, perform risk analysis, and develop or refine your holistic approach to company quality. The methods you use in this workshop can be applied to small startups or enterprise teams, and we will consider multiple quality aspects, including UI, performance, security, accessibility, and regulated environments. You will leave with short-term goals and an actionable long-term plan to present to leadership.
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Differentiated Management: Building Stronger Teams
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Hiring and team-building are two significant issues faced by every quality manager or director. However, what happens once you have hired your team? How do you keep valued members on board and help struggling members to become better, all while continuing to manage your organization and meet deliverables? During this highly interactive workshop, you will learn how to differentiate content, process, and products by learning more about employee readiness, interest, and lived experiences. You will…
Hiring and team-building are two significant issues faced by every quality manager or director. However, what happens once you have hired your team? How do you keep valued members on board and help struggling members to become better, all while continuing to manage your organization and meet deliverables? During this highly interactive workshop, you will learn how to differentiate content, process, and products by learning more about employee readiness, interest, and lived experiences. You will participate in a role-playing game and will work as a team to practice each of these skills. The workshop will wrap up with a discussion as participants share their problems and apply differentiated management strategies with the help of others on their team. You will leave with strategies to help you build stronger teams by enabling every team member to participate in their success.
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CAST 2019: Testing Talk
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Jess’s August 2019 talk at the Association for Software Testing Conference.
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Heisenbug 2019: Property Testing using Python Hypothesis
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Jess gives an overview of the Hypothesis testing library and property testing as a unit testing strategy.
Honors & Awards
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Engineering Leader Under 40
Control Engineers
https://www.controleng.com/articles/2021-engineering-leader-under-40-jess-ingrassellino-40/
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