Greg Sypolt

Senior Director of DevEx

About Greg

Greg Sypolt has dedicated 25 years to the technology industry, concentrating on enhancing quality engineering strategies, techniques, leadership, productivity, and developer experience. Currently, he serves as the Senior Director of Developer Experience (DevEx) at FINRA, where he leads initiatives aimed at improving the developer experience across the organization. Prior to his role at FINRA, Greg successfully transitioned organizations from traditional manual testing to an automation-first approach. He coached multiple development teams on integrating quality into every stage of the continuous integration pipeline at EVERFI and Gannett. Throughout his career, Greg has addressed quality assurance challenges with an engineering mindset. He shares his expertise by speaking at software testing conferences and writing blogs, helping others rethink their approach to achieving quality excellence at scale.

Testing Focus

Testing The Right Things, Infrastructure, Unit, API, Integration, Contract, UI Flows, Visual, GenAI with Amazon Q, and Autonomous Testing

Ideas and Sharing

Industry Blogger, Best Practices, Thought Leadership, Mentoring and Training, Strategist, Evangelist, and Conference Speaker

Building a Culture

Culture of Quality, Agile Development, Reliable Test Automation, Continuous Integration, Build to the Test, and Developer Experience

Knowledge

Leadership

Influencer, Self Awareness, Effective Communication, Learning Agility, Coaching and Mentoring, Leading Leaders and Individual Contributors, SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, Change Management, Cross-Team Dependency Management, Platform Adoption Strategies, Team Topologies, OKRs, Workflow Optimization Methodologies

Testing & Quality Integration

SonarQube, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Jest, NightwatchJS, Appium, Testim, Web Page Test, ArtilleryIO, Puppeteer, Espresso, XCUI, Earl Grey, Custom Selenium Grid, Model-Based Testing (Simulato, Testmodeller.io), AWS Device Farm, Developer-Friendly Testing Tools, Quality Gates, Automated Quality Checks

Programming & Automation

JavaScript, ReactJS, Angular, Golang, Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, NodeJS, BackboneJS, Workflow Automation, Developer Tool Integration

AI & Developer Assistance

Amazon Q, Moveworks, GitLab Duo, Atlassian Intelligence, Claude, Gemini, AI-powered Code Review, Developer Chatbots

Developer Experience & Productivity Tools

Backstage, LaunchDarkly, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, Developer Portals, Workflow Automation

Developer Productivity Measurement

New Relic, Sumo Logic, DataDog, Sentry, Splunk, Developer Metrics, Productivity Analytics, DORA Metrics, DX Survey Tools, Feedback Systems

Developer Workflow Optimization

CI/CD Pipeline Design, Automated Testing Integration, Code Quality Tools, Developer Feedback Systems

Cloud & Development Platforms

AWS, GCP, AWS Lambda, S3, Container Platforms, Status Page, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helmchart, Docker, Quay, JFrog Artifactory, Developer Self-Service Tools

Recorded Talks

The Quality Maturity Rubric: Achieving Elite Quality Status
Quality, Coverage, and Teamwork: The Holy Trinity of USA TODAY's Winning Dev/Test Team
SauceCon 2019 Interview
Wizard of Oz Testing, Panel Speaks
Developers Eating the World with Greg Sypolt
Inserting Quality Into Every Step of Deployment
Achieving CI Excellence Through Test Automation
CI Excellence with Test Automation Engineers
This Is My Architecture: AWS Device Farm and Applitools
171: CI Awesomeness with Test Automation
Using Design Patterns to Improve Automated Testing
Test and Debug Your Mobile Apps on Real Android/iOS Devices in the Cloud with AWS Device Farm

Blog Posts

Software Testing

Rethinking the Role of “Journey” in Software Testing

December 6, 2018

Software quality is a journey, not a destination. Where is your organization in its quality journey?

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Strategy

What’s the Next Big Thing in Software Testing? Test Generation!

July 23, 2019

Here’s one idea that I think will play an increasingly important role in the future of software testing: test generation.

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Agile Development

Building an Agile Process Playbook for Software Testing

April 18, 2019

What exactly is agile testing, and why would we need an agile process playbook for software testing? Let me explain!

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