We are holding another meetup this Thursday 11th May with our guest speaker - Stuart Day will be giving us a talk on Quality Engineering - Growing A Career Beyond Testing
In this talk, Stuart will share his thoughts, experiences, and ideas to answers these questions along with how they are trying to do this at Dunelm.
Please come and join us if you can and confirm attendance at our meetup page:
Qualiity Engineer - Growing a Career Beyond Testing - MidsTest.pdf (6.4 MB)
At the other end of the UK so unable to attend, will there be any material to share afterwards? Keen to hear more on this
Nice one… thank you!
Stuart has kindly supplied his slides from the talk - they are attached at the top.
We learnt from Stuart that Quality was a shared goal across teams, and that everyone should be encouraged to engage and promote testing throughout the development teams.
There is a balance between risk and reward from this perspective, and this is illustrated as well with regards to experimenting with different tools as well as the long difficult journeys to achieve test automation.
Support, mentoring and training should be provided wherever possible to help testers progress and move in their desired direction of expertise.
These developed new skills allow a “tree” branch spread of abilities across different areas of technical knowledge and therefore help the tester become multiskilled and highly technical. the creation of a dedicated Learning Charter has illustrated the commitment that Dunelm are showing and building in their desire to nurture and grow testing talent across the different paths of testing.
These newly skilled, technical testers are then well placed to begin their journeys and progress their careers higher and higher.
