How can you see yourself in a technical position; but there's no one who looks like you. This is one of many challenges Women of Color (WOC) experience in the tech field. The tech field is majority white men. As a Gen-X black woman, Lettie Ar-Rahmaan wasn’t encouraged to enter the tech field. Therefore, she struggled between service and technology. In the end, her passion for technology won and she's found success in technology from developer, QA tester, test manager, and now a product manager. The memories of being told she's not good enough came to her as she wrote her book,...
Willetta "Lettie" Ar-Rahmaan
Sr. Product Manager - Rational Test
IBM
Willetta "Lettie" Ar-Rahmaan is the Sr. Product Manager for IBM Rational Test in IBM DevOps. Ms. Ar-Rahmaan has more than 20 years in QA as Program/Project Test Manager, Automation Test Manager, Business Analyst, and functional tester. She has a B.S. in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration (NCCU), a M.S. in Information Systems (Strayer) and a M.Div. in Theology (VUU). As a product manager, she brings a wealth of quality engineer and client facing experience from test management, middleware, application, database, web, and automation testing. She has a working knowledge of testing tools including Rational Functional Tester. Ms. Ar-Rahmaan testing background has placed her in different industry where she had to learn quick, be a self-starter and provide team leadership. Her industry experience includes insurance, financial, PBM, HR/Payroll, transportation and retail.