What skills have you found to be essentials at start-ups?

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Read this week’s article, " Pragmatism, prioritisation and patience: skills for success in start-ups" by @qamy to explore the essential skills for thriving in start-up environments as a QA engineer.

What You’ll Learn:

:bulb: The importance of pragmatism in adapting quality standards to the nature of start-ups.
:bulb: How effective prioritisation can manage high workloads and improve team efficiency.
:bulb: The role of patience in navigating the unique challenges and growth phases of start-ups.
:bulb: Practical examples and strategies to implement these skills in your QA processes.

After reading, we’d love to hear from you:

  • Have you used pragmatism, prioritisation, or patience in your start-up work?
  • What new strategies will you try to improve your effectiveness as a QA engineer in a start-up?
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I’d say you’re good for start-up if you’re open, flexible, problem-solving, have great communication skills and of course resilience to challenges. Because a startup it’s stress, quick turn around based on pivots, frequent releases, and responsibility on user workflows.

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I’ve worked with established companies and startups throughout the course of my extensive career.

Startups are more dynamic and there is a great scope to wear multiple hats and learn new things.

I’ve seen that good communication and networking skills (as mentioned in an earlier answer) along with a willingness to step outside your comfort zone and learn new things will keep you in good stead. But keep your core skills and strengths in handy.

There’s also the need to be visible to the higher management to show that you’re an indispensable part of the setup.

These will help you to learn and grow in a startup.

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I will share traits as well as skills here.

  • Be open to change because things would just be starting up
  • Be flexible as priorities and roles will change quickly
  • Good presentation & sales skill. Everyone is selling to some degree at a startup. Even a request to buy a test tool for your testing is like a sales pitch.
  • Collaboration & Communication. Startups cannot win if people go in siloes.
  • Being business savvy. Understanding business helps create products that are aligned to business needs. While this is true for enterprises too but I have seen that there are spaces to hide under technical work in big corps. Sometimes, engineers in big corps, don’t focus much on business aspects.
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