Lately, I’ve been thinking about managerial QA-related roles and I got an opportunity to maybe become a test manager for a project sometime in the near future. I’ve been watching some older TestBash talks, reading a few blogs on this topic, and watching many Pluralsight courses on soft skills lately…

Thanks, @jesper and @jimholmescc thanks I will save all of these - I’m in the process of collecting resources and going through all of them whenever I find the time.

Thanks Steve @sjwatsonuk ! In agile teams the day to day business often prevents you from from doing long term work in regards to testing, eg. evaluating new tools, writing process descriptions etc. Apart from coordinating cross team testing events or writing the overall time table these seem to me…

@mirza I personally enjoyed Lessons Learned in Software Testing: A Context-Driven Approach Amazon.com

Thanks @testrigor this goes to the list of resources I’m gathering on this topic :nerd_face:

I wonder how someone can gradually work their way up to becoming a QA or test manager role. My gut says that this person should at least have mentored a few testers before becoming a manager. I have seen and heard of companies where the QA manager had little to no experience in QA or software develo…

One of the good ways I noticed is to have the future manager shadow a more seasoned one - to work closely with them, go to meetings together, and slowly take on some of the responsibilities of the experienced manager. One of the product owners I work with got trained that way and after about six mo…

Hi there! A book that I found really good is “The manager’s path” by Camille Fournier. I recommend it for individual contributors as well, not just for managers.

I’d suggest “Turn this ship around” by David Marquet… focus is on trusting people, balance between autonomy and control and delegation

I would suggest you take up a managerial position only if you are inspired by leading people towards a common vision. This would include managing situations. Remember: manage situations, lead people. If you are not interested in this, you can continue on a technical role becoming test architect, t…

Thanks, @testervenkat I thought about this long and hard, doing technical stuff can be interesting but it gets a little tiresome over time. I thought that management wouldn’t be for me since I’m a bit of an introvert. This changed when I get to meet one of my managers better, who’s also an introver…

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Off the back of this discussion, we’ve now created the following wiki. Everyone is welcome to add to it.

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