May 2023: Quality Engineering - Growing A Career Beyond Testing

Location address:
Sainsburys Store Support Centre,
Ansty Park, Unit 1, Draken Drive,
Coventry CV7 9RD
**Free parking is available at the venue.**

**Please note**:
this location is not the one we used at Walsgrave - this is only a few minutes away on the other side of the M6 Island

About our speaker: Stuart Day - Head of Quality at Dunelm.

Stuart is a software delivery professional with over 23 years of experience as an advocate of delivering high-quality value to customers at speed. He is a Quality Coach, Cert. Agile Coach, Cert. Agile Team Facilitator, Cert. Scrum Master and international speaker.

Currently, Stuart is the Head of Quality at Dunelm Soft Furnishings, building a Culture of Quality and enabling continuous quality throughout the organisation’s technology landscape with a strong focus on people, developing their skills and growing their careers.

About the talk: Quality Engineering - Growing A Career Beyond Testing

In today's fast paced technology driven world, organisations are constantly having to evolve whilst striving to deliver high quality value to their customers faster and faster. This is also true for those people that work for these organisations.

The activity of Software Testing alone is no longer sufficient to support these needs and therefore the traditional role of the software tester has needed to evolve and continues to do so towards quality engineering and continuous quality.

With this comes the need to develop different skills, behaviours, ways of working and mindsets, but we can't just expect people to magically develop and grow these skills.

So how can we create the learning culture and career paths to support and enable people, and provide them with the opportunities to identify and grow these new skills alongside their careers in this new direction?

In this talk, Stuart Day (Head of Quality) will share his thoughts, experiences, and ideas to answers these questions along with how they are trying to do this at Dunelm.

About our sponsors:
The food and drink for the attendees will be kindly provided by our fabulous sponsor Richard Bailey from Xpertise Recruitment
https://www.xpertise-recruitment.com/
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Please arrive between 18:30 - 19:00 so that we can get you signed in with our Security Front Desk, and then escorted to our function room, where you can grab a cup of tea or coffee and chat with everyone.

After the talk there is the opportunity for all attendees to take part in 99 Second Talks, where they can use the time to trial a presentation they plan to give, ask for help to the community, share something they are passionate about, virtually anything they can think of.

Finally, we will move over to our Canteen where there will be complimentary food/drinks (provided by our fabulous sponsor Xpertise Recruitment) and networking until roughly 21:00 (but you don't have to stay that late if you don't want to).

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