Breakpoint Speaker Spotlight: Todd Eaton, The Weather Company

Breakpoint 2020 is a four-day virtual summit on testing featuring speakers from top dev and QA teams discussing building QA processes, automating at scale, and best practices for success with tools and frameworks. Todd Eaton, Head of DevOps at The Weather Company and speaker at Breakpoint 2020, leads the IBM Watson Media and Weather B2C Dev-Ops and Web-QA teams responsible for system administration, testing, and deployment of applications like weather.com, wunderground.com, and The Weather Channel apps. In his session for Breakpoint 2020, Eaton will describe how their B2C web team has shifted from relying on QA tests for assertions to more visual regression and end-to-end testing. As a STEM Academy Advisory Board Member, Eaton shares real-world examples of STEM careers with students and influences curriculum with technology and industry trends. He is currently working on security compliance for B2C products and recently finished reading 'Accelerate — Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations' by Nicole Forsgren PhD, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim. Eaton advises new testers to dedicate four hours a week to learning new skills in areas such as test automation, build and deployment automation, environment orchestration, security, and other compliance management.