Well, I’ve had six wonderful years in the land of Thinking and Working (aka “The Martin Fowler Company“). Today, however, is my last day at ThoughtWorks. I’ll be packing up my home in Chicago and joining Google in Mountain View starting in February. My official title there will be “Software QA Engineer“, which is ironic, because no serious software tester goes by the title ”QA Engineer”. So I won’t either. Just call me a developer-tester, please!
On that note, it just so happens that Google is a huge fan of Selenium for browser testing their web applications. According to veteran Googler Goranka Bjedov, “Google projects use open source tools, and Selenium in particular for their testing projects… Selenium is well regarded and people who use it are very happy with it.” Hey… I’m happy they’re happy!
It has been fun working with so many prolific and talented open source coders at ThoughtWorks over the years, and I look forward to being equally amazed by my fellow co-workers at Google. Well, at least until a position at NASA or Lego opens up. :-)
Congratulations! That sounds like a great move.
Link | January 24th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Congrats! Glad to see people benefit in some way from their contributions to open source.. some sort of Karmic resolution in action.. :-)
Link | January 24th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
Congratulations!
And Best of luck, to read the name of selenium have really excites me :) i am a very happy selenium user, thanks a lot for that tool.
Link | January 24th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Huge congrats Jason – I hope you enjoy the west coast and the big G!
Mike
Link | January 24th, 2007 at 6:24 pm
Jason, congrats! This is also good news for Selenium as I imagine you will be able to expand upon the framework and related concepts/ projects. How about one last Tech Coffee before you move?? I was somewhat daunted by the last few (I’m the least likely morning person) but I could use one, especially in light of preparing for my talk at pycon :)
Link | January 25th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
oh damn, well I guess I’m out of the loop. see you next Thursday…
Link | January 25th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Jason, very happy to hear it and looking forward to meeting you! Selenium is catching on a little late here, which is too bad, but it’s definitely true that a lot of people are very excited about it.
Link | January 26th, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Congrats!
Link | January 28th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Congrats, come say hi to me in building 41.
(I’m one of the Plone dudes :)
Link | February 27th, 2007 at 1:48 am