On-Call Me Maybe

O11ycast alumna and proponent of Observability for testers, Abby Bangser, joins Adriana and Ana for a super chill talk about her career journey, from starting out as a SCUBA divemaster after university to data entry, to QA engineer, to SRE, to her current role as Principal Engineer at Syntasso. We also get some hot takes on SRE, chasing down titles, and pushing back against the idea that people who failed out of developer interviews should go into the QA track.Fun fact: Abby, Adriana, and Ana actually got to meet in person at KubeCon North America 2022 in Detroit in October!About the guest:Abby Bangser is a UK-based Principal Engineer at Syntasso, delivering Kratix, an open-source cloud-native framework for building internal platforms on Kubernetes. Her keen interest in supporting internal development comes from over a decade of experience in consulting and product delivery roles across platforms, site reliability, and quality engineering.Abby is an international keynote speaker, co-host of the #CoffeeOps Lon