Developer Experience

Developer Experience is a newly formed group, born from the strategic merger of the Engineering Productivity team and the Test Platform sub-department. This exciting combination allows us to take a holistic approach to delivering cutting-edge Platform capabilities.

Mission

Our mission is to empower developers to focus on innovation, build, and deliver high-quality products to our customers. We aim to achieve this through:

State-of-the-art developer tooling.
Robust and reliable test infrastructure.
Data-driven analysis for informed decision-making.
Streamlined release and test governance to ensure consistency, compliance, and quality across the development lifecycle.
Comprehensive performance validation.

Team Structure

Infrastructure Platforms Department structure is documented here.

OKRs

TODO

Weights

We use Fibonacci Series for weights and limit the highest number to 8. The definitions are as below:

Weight	Description
1 - Trivial	Simple and quick changes (e.g. typo fix, test tag update, trivial documentation additions)
2 - Small	Straight forward changes, no underlying dependencies needed. (e.g. new test that has existing factories or page objects)
3 - Medium	Well understood changes with a few dependencies. Few surprises can be expected. (e.g. new test that needs to have new factories or page object / page components)
5 - Large	A task that will require some investigation and research, in addition to the above weights (e.g. Tests that need framework level changes which can impact other parts of the test suite)
8 - X-large	A very large task that will require much investigation and research. Pushing initiative level
13 or more	Please break the work down further, we do not use weights higher than 8.

Developer Experience group structure

graph TD
    DE[Developer Experience group]
    click DE "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience"

    DE --> DA[Development Analytics]
    click DA "handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/development-analytics"
    DE --> DT[Developer Tooling]
    click DT "/handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/developer-tooling"
    DE --> FR[Feature Readiness]
    click FR "handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/feature-readiness"
    DE --> PE[Performance Enablement]
    click PE "handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/performance-enablement"
    DE --> TG[Test Governance]
    click TG "handbook/engineering/infrastructure-platforms/developer-experience/test-governance"

Team Members

Management team

Name	Role
Vincy Wilson	Director, Test Platform
Abhinaba Ghosh	Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Development Analytics
Ksenia Kolpakova	Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Test Engineering
Kassandra Svoboda	Manager, Quality Engineering, Core Platform & SaaS Platform
Mohga Gamea	Manager, Quality Engineering

Individual contributors

The following people are members of the Development Analytics group:

Name	Role
Abhinaba Ghosh	Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Development Analytics
Andrejs Cunskis	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
Dan Davison	Staff Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
David Dieulivol	Senior Backend Engineer, Development Analytics
Ievgen Chernikov	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
Jennifer Li	Senior Backend Engineer, Development Analytics
Lohit Peesapati	Intermediate Backend Engineer, Development Analytics

The following people are members of the Developer Tooling group:

Name	Role
Vincy Wilson	Director, Test Platform
Abhinaba Ghosh	Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Development Analytics
Ksenia Kolpakova	Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Test Engineering
Kassandra Svoboda	Manager, Quality Engineering, Core Platform & SaaS Platform
Mohga Gamea	Manager, Quality Engineering

The following people are members of the Feature Readiness group:

Name	Role
Kassandra Svoboda	Manager, Quality Engineering, Core Platform & SaaS Platform
Andy Hohenner	Senior Software Engineer in Test, SaaS Platforms:US Public Sector Services
Brittany Wilkerson	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dedicated:Environment Automation
Jim Baumgardner	Software Engineer in Test, SaaS Platforms:US Public Sector Services
John McDonnell	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Systems:Gitaly
Nivetha Prabakaran	Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Manage
Richard Chong	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Developer Experience:Feature Readiness
Sanad Liaquat	Staff Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure
Sofia Vistas	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure
Vishal Patel	Software Engineer in Test, Core Platform:Systems

The following people are members of the Performance Enablement group:

Name	Role
Kassandra Svoboda	Manager, Quality Engineering, Core Platform & SaaS Platform
Andy Hohenner	Senior Software Engineer in Test, SaaS Platforms:US Public Sector Services
Brittany Wilkerson	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dedicated:Environment Automation
Jim Baumgardner	Software Engineer in Test, SaaS Platforms:US Public Sector Services
John McDonnell	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Systems:Gitaly
Nivetha Prabakaran	Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Manage
Richard Chong	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Developer Experience:Feature Readiness
Sanad Liaquat	Staff Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure
Sofia Vistas	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Test and Tools Infrastructure
Vishal Patel	Software Engineer in Test, Core Platform:Systems

The following people are members of the Test Governance group:

Name	Role
Ksenia Kolpakova	Engineering Manager, Test Platform, Test Engineering
Chloe Liu	Staff Software Engineer in Test, Development Analytics
Désirée Chevalier	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Plan
Harsha Muralidhar	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Govern
Jay McCure	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Dev:Create
Joy Roodnick	Software Engineer in Test, Test Engineering, Verify:Runner group, Fulfillment section
Tiffany Rea	Senior Software Engineer in Test, CI:Verify
Will Meek	Senior Software Engineer in Test, Secure