ActionIQ Engineering

Staff Engineer Danny Graham enjoys flexibility in his tech stack. At work, he gets to play with systems like Scala, k8 and RabbitMQ, which can ramp up to meet workload needs and wind down after. “These tools let us do more with less in an elegant way,” he explained. The versatility of its tech stack reflects ActionIQ’s ethos of experiment-based innovation, where developers are encouraged to present demos, join lunch and learn sessions and participate in the bi-annual hackathon. For those with such entrepreneurial inclination, “Bring your sense of adventure and curiosity,” Graham said.

As ActionIQ’s first embedded QA engineer, Tina Tyavlovskaya sought not only to replace the company’s third-party testing process but to shed the perception of QA as one that impedes progress. “QAs define quality standards across the engineering org and provide guidance on how to meet these standards,” she said. Moving QA in-house required a revamped strategy: a “priority-based test scope approach” with a mix of automated and commercial tools to meet team requirements and generate better coverage. There’s also the migration to Cypress, a more efficient tool for parallel testing and development.