Sophia McKeever

Winner of the Top Paper Award at PNSQC 2023 for her talk, "Art in Code and Quality", and 2024 Invited Speaker at PNSQC, Sophia McKeever is a self-taught Senior Software Development Engineer in Test and has been in the industry for over eleven years. She got her start at DataSphere Technologies Inc., moving from a Customer Service role into a Software Test Engineer role, and worked her way into being a vendor with Microsoft Azure building their UI Automation frameworks for the Signup and management portals. She then went to The Pokémon Company International, building test automation for Pokemon.com and their Game Studio Backend team before taking a role at Apple's Apple Media Services team writing UI automation for iOS and macOS. A year later she returned to Pokémon to help redesign the automation architecture for the Organized Play team.