STAREAST 2019 - Leadership Summit Sessions
Thursday, May 2
Reception: Summit Kickoff: As a Leader, What Is Keeping You Up at Night? (Summit Registration Required)
Kickoff the Testing & Quality Leadership Summit with a reception and some networking.
Friday, May 3
The Tester’s Role - Balancing Technical Acumen and User Advocacy
Melissa Tondi discusses the changing landscape of the role of testers, the challenges of hiring, and a way to shift the pendulum back to balance technical acumen with a user advocacy role. Melissa leads a thoughtful discussion on what makes a good tester, how test leaders can continue to promote our profession, and how to accentuate the value testers bring to organizations. She identifies factors that caused the test/QA role to become mainstream and how it shifted to become more technically focused. Melissa helps fill in the gaps with a test strategy that incorporates a solid automation...
Lessons Learned Moving Up the Testing Leadership Ladder
PreviewWhen seeking to move up the Software Testing career ladder, there are three questions you must answer at each rung: 1) Do I want to move up? 2) What do I need to do to move up? 3) How do I manage up and down to be effective? Join Jason Arbon as he shared the lessons he has learned while moving up the ladder from an entry-level manual test engineer, to a lead, to a test manager, to a test director, and finally on to starting a testing company and raising funds as the CEO. Jason will share his embarrassing, insightful, wrong, smart, accidental and brutal experiences while climbing...