What’s in a team? We’ve all heard about testers and developers being placed in different teams (or silos), as opposed to having both roles and skillsets in the same team. But what about testers placed in the client-facing team? Being part of the team that deals with client onboarding, training and support, whilst […]
Category: Personal Development
1 Year in Testing: Then and Now
This time last year, I was invited to move from my customer-facing tech support role to my current testing one. A lot has changed in the last year, and my role, knowledge and experiences have really grown in what feels like a very short, yet action-packed, period of time. Working in a small […]
Tester’s First TestBash
TL; DR: TestBash Manchester was amazing! I’d highly recommend going and / or sending your team there. The talks and the people were well worth it and even better than I thought they would be. This post has two main purposes: I want to try and deepen the learning from a great conference […]
Keep High Standards High
I disappointed myself today. After finishing up with what should have been the final test build before release, I made the decision to keep a small bug in the release build to avoid my colleague having to do another (manual) build to revert the changes that caused it. Yup, this was a new […]
Starting Stuff is Hard
So, I know what you’re thinking. You’ve read the title of my first personal blog post and you can already tell I’m a literary genius! Ahem. Seriously though, starting stuff is hard! And I think that’s something most people (please say it wasn’t just me?!) underestimate when they first have an idea to do something. […]