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Greg Paskal
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Summary

Greg Paskal leads the Quality Assurance Test Automation efforts at Ramsey Solutions, focusing on enhancing quality and reducing risk through innovative test automation. After attending the Google Test Automation Conference in 2016, he was inspired to improve the measurement and analysis of testing data. This led to the integration of the Elastic Stack and Kibana to create a "data lake" that captures and analyzes detailed test automation metrics. This approach enables the team to gain valuable insights into the software development lifecycle, going beyond simple pass/fail results to include test duration and other metrics. Paskal highlights the importance of effective data visualization and communication, drawing from the teachings of experts like Edward Tufte, to ensure the information is actionable and understandable for different audiences. The implementation of the Elastic Stack has significantly improved the team's ability to monitor application health and detect issues early, prompting interest and requests to share their methodologies within Ramsey Solutions.