Remote-First Quality Engineering and Contract Testing — feat. Bernardo Guerreiro (Auth0)

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A quality engineer shares remote-team tips, contract testing, and data-driven performance testing. Bernardo Guerreiro discusses thriving in a fully remote, globally distributed engineering culture, emphasizing asynchronous communication, transparency, shared knowledge, and treating a support/service desk as a first-class citizen. He explains contract testing for microservices architectures and, crucially, knowing when NOT to apply a favourite technique if it doesn't fit a company's maturity. At Auth0 he prioritized performance testing over contract testing, using tools like Artillery and K6 close to the developer stack and a data-driven approach that profiles real customer usage patterns and past incidents. He closes on observability, traceability, and his interest in mentoring newcomers to testing. **In this episode:** - Remote & Distributed Teams - Contract Testing - Performance Te