Keynote

Starting any discourse online within the testing community can show just how out of touch a lot of testing professionals are with modern software team needs. I’d made a post about how most teams already test in production and the push back from so many people was unreal; this is not only an unpragmatic response but flags to engineers that testers are out of touch with modern software development.

In this talk I’ll use my experience as a seasoned tester and a QE that works closely with modern product development teams to go through my observations of the testing industry and show why many testers don’t yet give teams what they need. Calling out conventional wisdom and what testers say online I’ll give some tough love and honest feedback on where many testers are at and why this isn’t helpful.

Following this, based on discussions with CTOs, Engineering Managers and Software Engineers, I’ll explain what modern teams are looking for and why traditional testing wisdom and discourse hurts getting a seat at the table for testing professionals.

Attendees will be challenged to change their thinking around how they talk about testing and how they need to evolve to suit the current market needs. Focusing more on becoming a generalist, being a pragmatist and speaking out to push ideas at teams proactively.