about the authors

Marie Cruz is a Software Tester with almost 10 years of experience in 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 responsible for driving continuous testing and quality improvements within the organization. She has also been a Principal Engineer focused on introducing recommended practices for testing and test automation frameworks.

Lewis Prescott is a QA advocate with 9 years of experience working with various industries. Currently, he is a QA Lead at IBM. He is focused on building quality across the whole engineering team and scaling a holistic, agile testing approach. In the past, he has been a Test Automation Lead, where he was responsible for building testing architecture and teaching automation best practices within the organization. He has also been an ASOS QA Engineer, scaling microservices across distributed teams in scenarios such as Black Friday events.