palinQA talks: Inside Innovation and Motivation of Testers

This November we will have a few wonderful international speakers in town and palinQA is more than honored to have two amazing professionals share their insights on innovation and motivation of testers. The event will be hosted by Ingatlan.com.
Cristiana Maria Gusanu (Expert IT Architect, Nordea Markets)

Are you a creative person? Do you spend a lot of time thinking about thinking? Do you believe the myth that says that only some people are creative? Or the one that says that you cannot be creative and an engineer at the same time? How does an innovative mind work?

These are some of the questions I am going to answer in my “Inside Innovation” talk. First you’ll find out what are the main characteristics of the innovative thinking. Then you’ll be guided step by step through every thinking stage required to produce innovative ideas. In the end we’ll talk about failure and how can we use it in the innovation process. I’ll be giving you lots of examples and I’ll be teaching you innovative thinking techniques.

The main takeaways of my talk are:

• Modelling the problem approach techniques and open up ways to change the classic problem solving approaches;

• Understanding the innovative thinking processes;

• Innovation thinking exercises with practical examples;

• How to use failure in the innovation process;

• How all the above apply in the software development and testing landscape;

Cristiana Maria Gusanu is an Expert IT Architect at Nordea Trading Technologies, Denmark. She holds a Master’s Degree in Automation and Robotics and a PhD in Cybernetics. Cristiana has over 15 years of experience in test automation and quality assurance. Along with being actively involved in the design and creation of new testing systems, she is spending a lot of time helping organizations to shift their mentality towards a new, ‘out of the box’ and more quality oriented mind-set. She regularly holds public talks, tutorial classes and workshops on topics covering Quality Assurance as well as Innovation and Creative Thinking.

Petra Boušková (https://www.linkedin.com/in/petrabouskova/) (Test Coordinator, TESENA S.R.O.)

How to awake a motivation in Software Tester to love his job? And how to stimulate this motivation over the years?

How to Motivate Your Software Tester?

On a global scale this is a part of bigger problem which many companies are facing today, despite of its size or the field of business. I was systematic and persistent and have discussed this issue with Software Testers in various testing roles across multiple fields. I came up with methods of motivation which can be applied in any company’s environment. Methods which can help to boost energy in a team and lead to more proactive work approach. Methods which can provide easier and smoother process of hiring new Software Testers.

My presentation includes following points:

• Different approaches of pouring energy into Junior or Senior Tester.

• Method ‘Being a Tester – Who is tomorrow’s Lead‘

• Emphasizing the Benefits of Communication with Stakeholders, Business Department, Developers, Leads and Analytics.

• Using a modernized ‘Carrot and Stick’ Approach to Motivation in society nowadays.

• Finding an Individual motivation target for everyone and working with it.

Petra is a member of tesena’s delivery team in the Czech republic. This job gives her a great opportunity to grow and support a mission of this company – to be the number one provider of Testing Services. Petra‘s career path started in automotive industry, which gave her strong basis in automation, specification and execution. Simultaneously she was participating on development of Automobile Suspension system testing strategy. Her passion is to enthuse, excite and inspire people to develop their skills and careers. Besides being active in software testing, Petra works as a professional Soft Skills Trainer leading intern and extern workshops across Europe. Her most successful and favourite workshops are focused on ‘Presentation’, ‘Public Speaking’ and ‘Motivation’.

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