Ask Me Anything: Career Building - Lena Wiberg

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Example CVs popped up in the chat CV's: How Do You Write Yours?

A question from the session that we felt could get more detail here What a software tester portfolio looks like, and how to build one?

Crowdsource testing also popped up Crowd Source Testing

Questions we didn’t get to

  1. How non IT person can start career in software Testing after almost 10 years career gap?
  2. How do you best go about widening you knowledge and improving your testing if you are the only tester in your organisation? There are a lot of resources out there, but sometimes it would be good to get a fresh perspective and some guidance!
  3. What are the future opportunities after working as a Senior test engineer for almost 4-5 years?
  4. With more and more job descriptions looking like Unicorn roles (20+ years of experience, know cloud, security, how to make tea from fresh leaves, with spring water, automation, soft skills, AI, finance, retail etc.) any idea on how to sift through unrealistic descriptions and pick out what might actually be part of the role?
  5. Hello! Would you have any advise on remote work?:grinning:
  6. Let’s assume I’m a QA Lead with a relevant technical background. I’m involved in building a new test framework and in general I’m handling all the QA technical related topics, is Test Architect the next step?
  7. How to mentor other testers in our starting testing careers?
  8. What would you recommend when one wants to move from QA Lead to QA Manager?
  9. Functional/Manual tester wanting to become a QA Engineer. What would be your advice for learning the necessary technical skills to step into a more technical role?
  10. How would you go about blending previous team leading/management experience, coupled with engineering skills back into a test management role?
  11. What advice would you give a former QA Manager (and admitted Pointy Haired Boss) who has stepped back into the trenches and finds himself a bit overwhelmed by the changes which have taken place over the last ten years.
  12. Who is mentoring experienced testers in their careers?
  13. how should the best manager of a tester look like?
  14. example of success story in your QA career (eg changes you help implement, improvement in testing) that helped your team greatly.
  15. What exactly is a test architect? Why/how could that be a good career path to take?