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Have you ever worked at a company that has hired a full-time Quality Coach?
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Never seen a Quality Coach hired…however a quality coach can evolve if your “quality problem” requires one.
So far I haven’t got a chance to work at an organization that has full-time coach but maybe in the future, I may join any organization which has such roles.
I regard myself amongst other things as a quality coach.
In the past I have been both a full time Head of Quality assurance and a full time Test Manager, over time though I saw less value in those roles particularly where there were less than 50 odd testers and initially quality coaching was a better higher value fit.
I had to do study, training and have a coaching mentor to make that transition, manager to coach is not entirely natural and it sort of went towards a servant manager stepping stone.
As a full time coach it seemed to be a focus of get/coach/help/support the team and product up to the next level and then move on, not a bad thing but either the company is big enough and you can jump teams and products or move on to another company.
The market and my own need for job security meant the latter was not my preferred path.
For me that even though the coaching hat is always available I prefer its maxed at about 20% of my time and that I have that primary tester hat on 80% when I can. This really works for me, I like coaching but I love testing and keeping those hands on skills fresh in turn helps my coaching skills.
My experience has created a bias that’s changed over the years and I’d be unlikely to suggest a full time quality coach unless it was a short term assignment with long term goals in mind and I’m even less likely to recommend a full time test manager as I see coach as higher value.
They are highly valuable skills though, just not full time and I feel anyone wanting to continue in testing should be testing at least to some level.
Technically yes, since I have that role 
So technically “I worked at a company that has hired a full-time Quality Coach” XD
Currently at a company trying to coach several teams to improve their quality on all levels.
There’s 5 of us in our organisation, spread across a bunch of sites. A couple of us were promoted from test roles whilst others were external hires.