Successfully Converting Manual Test Teams into Test Automation Engineers
The need to convert manual test teams into test automation engineers is in large demand in many companies. This request is most prevalent in organizations using Agile Scrum that have short sprint cycles. In implementing solutions to this demand, Andy Sidney has found two effective strategies that have worked at two different companies in the past five years. In both situations the strategies were challenged by the Scrum teams and the QA teams because it would slightly modify the Scrum process, and initially increase the workload for the QA testers until the learning curve diminished. Once the strategies were fully implemented and functioning correctly, the companies continually increased and met all their customer commitments within their planned releases and increased the quality ratings of all their products. This session will review both strategies including the tools, processes, workflows, compliance, metrics, and the revised role definitions.
I have over 24 years of experience in the systems/software development industry with a focus on Quality Assurance, Operations, Agile SCRUM, and SDLC development. I have functioned at a director and Vice President level for the past 13 years, and have specialized in building Quality Assurance Test organizations from the ground up. My experience in assisting organizations to achieve higher CMM and TMM levels has accounted for much of my success in various business industries like software, healthcare, retail, communications. Some of my notable projects have been with Microsoft, Qualcom, Clear Channel Communications, Kaiser, Direct TV, Jackson Hewitt, CalHEERS,The Gap, AT&T, British Telecom, CalPERS, The Legislative Data Center, The DMV, the Department of Homeland Security, and ALLDATA/AutoZone.