Skills to pay the bills; creating testers for the future with Gwen Diagram

The absolutely fantastic Gwen Diagram is going to be joining us at our next meetup!

Join us from 6 onwards (thanks to our wonderful hosts ShopKeep!(https://www.shopkeep.com/)) for some refreshments (with additional support from Sauce Labs - https://saucelabs.com/ ) and we'll get going about 6.30 with Gwen's talk. There will be time for further discussion/questions after.

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Talk description:

Skills to pay the bills; creating testers for the future

Congratulations, you’ve worked with developers, testers and leadership to create a test strategy but now, you’ve got a problem. Your test team doesn’t currently have the skills to carry it out! What’s a person in your position to do?

You need more than strategies to build a successful product. To provide your teams with the tools for success, you need to identify where testers can have the biggest impact. By the end of the talk, you will see three pillars; test strategy, skills based coaching and targeting training. Together, these will build testers with a holistic view of quality. Gwen will show examples of how to develop testers that are effective for mobile, micro-services or web applications. You will see coaching tools to help you identify where your tester’s skills are at the moment and where they would like to grow. Using knowledge gained from analysis on skills and strategy, she will demonstrate how to create training plans for the test team. Together, these strategies will assist in building a strong quality culture with skilled testers.

By teaching your test team new skills, you will be empowering them for the future. A tester with more tools in their kit will have better confidence and job prospects. Knowledge is power!

About Gwen

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Gwen Diagram is a Software Tester from Leeds, UK. She is one seventh of the Leeds Testing Atelier, a testing conference in the North of England and has accidentally become a Test Manager when she meant to be an Automation Tester. She is very passionate about automation, whether it is test, operations or organisational. Some of her favourite things are dinosaurs, punk rock, real ale and pigeons.