I recently attended StarCanada and had a conversation with a fellow colleague about leadership on agile teams. We both agreed that there were a lot of leaders that shouldn’t be leading. “Why do you think that is?” I asked him…. Read More ›
Quality Assurance
Knowing your team one “One-on-One” at a time
I genuinely feel good when someone else benefits from my life experiences. Things happen for a reason! In the same way, I feel good in my work when my team benefits from my knowledge and experience. Being in a leadership… Read More ›
The Top 3 Barriers Women Face in Technology
The Top 3 Barriers Women Face in Technology …and What Tech Companies Can do to Help. Although the numbers are increasing the numbers in other industries such as law or medicine, women are seriously underrepresented in the technology sector in… Read More ›
QA Testing and the Continuous Delivery Model
Agile approaches to software development, along with continuous integration and delivery, has changed the speed of the software life cycle. More and more companies have adopted shorter sprint cycles and have been deploying to production as frequently as several times… Read More ›
Exploratory Testing: Quality Assurance with an Agile Approach
A growing number of web and mobile technology projects are adopting an agile approach to development. One of the benefits of following the agile method of delivery is a faster time to market. When the push is on to deliver… Read More ›
Don’t Take it Personally, but…
It’s Friday afternoon–You’re in a planning meeting and you make a recommendation about a potential solution, which is immediately shot down by one of your colleagues. You thought it was a good suggestion and your demeanour probably reflects your disappointment…. Read More ›
The Changing Role of the QA Analyst
Over 50 years ago, Bob Dylan sang “For the times they are a-changin’”. Technology is no exception. In our daily dose of online tech bytes, we read multiple declarations of technical innovation that promise to impact our lives now or… Read More ›
Why Developing Soft Skills has Value for the Quality Assurance Analyst
Wikipedia describes soft skills as a term often associated with a person’s social graces, personality traits and interpersonal skills that characterize their relationships with others. Essentially, it’s having emotional intelligence. As a QA analyst, what are the benefits of developing… Read More ›
