The 2016 Survival Guide for (Female) Testers
When we are in dangerous situations, we need a well-thought-out survival guide to help save ourselves and others. These lifesaving principles and skills provide the basic necessities for life and help us think straight, navigate safely, signal for help, and avoid unpleasant consequences of interactions with our environment.
Julie's shares her 2016 Survival Guide for testers and test managers living in today’s challenging business and technical environments.
Topics in her guide include: Turn your job from a daily grind into a passion―life’s too short not to have fun; Demonstrate every day the value of testing―if you aren’t adding value or if others don’t know what you’re accomplishing, you may be toast; Choose your battles―if you try to fight every battle, you will certainly lose often, and become frustrated and angry; and most importantly, Maintain your integrity at all costs―otherwise, you won’t be taken seriously, and you’ll lose the respect of others.
Join Julie in this thought-provoking session and take back the important principles, tools, and skills you need to survive―and even flourish―as a test professional.
Head of testing and implementation at a UK bank, Julie Gardiner provides consultancy, delivery, and training in all aspects of testing, management, and agile, specializing in risk, usability, and test management and using both traditional and agile methodologies. Julie is a certified ScrumMaster and agile coach with more than twenty-five years of experience as a developer, DBA, project manager, head of operations management, and head of R&D. She has held positions of test analyst, test team leader, test consultant, and test manager in the public sector and in financial, broadcasting, insurance, utilities, retail, web, and telecom industries. Julie’s philosophy is “If you’re not having fun, something is wrong.”