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"Why didn't testers catch that bug?" 🐛 It's the wrong question. Here's why: When something breaks in production, it's rarely about testing. 🚫🧪 It's about learning & collaboration. 🧠💡 After years leading QE teams, I've realized: Most failures stem from missed learning, not missed tests. Yet the instinctive question remains: "Why didn't testers catch it?" 🤔 The real reflection should be: • Did we truly understand the change and its impact on users? • Was refinement focused on exploring risks, not just scope? • Did QE, Dev, and Product align on user value? • Were edge cases practically explored & discussed in collaboration? Quality issues often reveal gaps in shared understanding, not skill. When teams collaborate early with deliberate structure — combining technical insight with product intent — quality becomes a design principle, not a gate. 🏗️🤝 The conversation shifts: From "Did we test enough?" To "Did we learn enough before building?" Quality isn't the end result of testing. It's the outcome of shared understanding. 🌟 How does your team ensure conversations lead to shared learning — not just ticket updates? #QualityEngineering #ProductThinking #AgileLeadership

❓“Why wait until the end to find the bugs?”❓  Adopting a Shift-Left mindset has been the single biggest game-changer in my 11-year testing journey. When our team embedded testers in sprint planning and design discussions, we saw:   • 25 % fewer critical defects raised in UAT   • 15 % faster release cycles   • Happier developers (and testers!) who now share ownership of quality  What made it work?   1. Early test strategy reviews with product owners   2. Lightweight API stubs that let us test before the UI was ready   3. Data-driven metrics to prove the value to leadership  The best part: conversations moved from “Why did QA miss this?” to “How can we prevent this together?”  How are you bringing quality to the left side of your pipeline? I’d love to hear the practices that worked—or didn’t—for you.  #ShiftLeft #QualityEngineering #AgileTesting #SoftwareTesting #Leadership  

Quality vs. Speed: The False Tradeoff In the tech world, speed and quality are often seen as enemies. Ship fast, and you cut corners. Focus on quality, and you slow everything down. But that’s a myth. Automation, shift-left testing, and a culture of quality don’t slow delivery — they remove friction. Speed without quality is a sprint into technical debt. Quality without speed is perfection that never reaches the customer. True velocity comes from building quality in, not bolting it on. #QualityAssurance #SoftwareTesting #Agile #AutomationTesting #ContinuousTesting #SoftwareQuality #EngineeringExcellence #TestAutomation #Leadership

So yesterday I failed to post... So we're starting off Day 5 talking about failure. Failure has always carried a bad stigma, but on my journey I've learned you can fail successfully. Its taking me a while to grasp this concept but here's what I've learned so far... Failure isn't a bad thing. As engineers and developers we're always encouraged fail often and fail forwards. This means asking yourself some key questions. How big is the mistake in the grand scheme of things? Not every issue is a major catastrophe. A failed pipeline for example isn't the end of the world but a signal. The real problem is ignoring it. Was it avoidable? If yes then you need to find out why. Poor testing coverage? A lack of code review? A rushed deployment? Do I need assistance or can I handle it alone? I struggle with this a lot 😅 but never be afraid to ask for help. Especially when working in a team. The only silly question is the one that wasn't asked. How quickly can I and do I need to recover? Especially when dealing with clients and businesses, projects move very quickly so recovery time is key. But so does clarity in the solution. Sometimes the best fix is a temporary patch, other times its a full system redesign. In data and software teams, failing successfully is about building systems, and cultures that expect things to go wrong and are designed to recover gracefully. That’s why practices like Agile retrospectives, continuous integration, and observability exist. They aren’t just buzzwords; they’re mechanisms for learning from failure in real time. Think about it: Every failing test reveals a missing assumption. Every broken data pipeline teaches you something about resilience, dependency management, or edge cases. Every incident report or post-mortem is a chance to improve processes and documentation. Over time, these “failures” compound into wisdom. You start anticipating potential breakpoints before they happen. You write better tests, design cleaner architecture, and automate recovery paths. You begin to fail earlier, smaller, and smarter. Everyone fails. But only a few fail successfully. The difference lies in mindset and culture. Lets Keep Building. 🚀 #FailForward #DataEngineering #SoftwareEngineering #Agile #GrowthMindset #DevOps

If your work as a tester isn’t visible, people will assume it doesn’t exist. That invisibility is costly. It feeds the worst stereotypes: - You’re “just clicking buttons.” - You’re a blocker, not a partner. -You’re optional, a role that can be replaced by tools or developers. Invisibility also traps you in flawed metrics. Test case counts, coverage percentages, green pipelines. They look good on dashboards, but they don’t show the real risks. When leaders only see those numbers, they don’t see your insights. They don’t see your value. And when things go wrong, the blame still lands on you. Here’s the irony: the less visible your work is, the more fragile your credibility becomes. You are only trusted after a failure proves you right, and by then it is too late. So how do you turn this around? By changing how you tell the story of your testing. Visibility is not about shouting louder or flooding Jira. It is about clarity and relevance. It is about showing impact. For example, instead of saying: “There is a defect in the reconciliation module.” Say this: “If we ship today, some customers will be overcharged and refunds will be delayed. That could trigger fines from regulators.” See the difference? One is a bug report. The other is a business risk. Practical ways to make your work visible: - In standups, frame your update as: what I tested, what I discovered, and what still worries me. - When raising bugs, demo the failing flow in 5 minutes with a developer and let them see the risk firsthand. - Translate technical issues into outcomes leadership cares about: revenue, trust, compliance, customer experience. - Keep notes that capture learning instead of just numbers. Share them in retros so the team sees how your work shaped decisions. Testing tends to be invisible by default. But trust is built when you turn invisible effort into visible influence. If you hide behind metrics and green pipelines, do not be surprised when your role is questioned. If you make your work visible as risks, stories, and outcomes, you stop being a cost center and start being a voice the business cannot ignore. So ask yourself: are you leaving your work in the dark, or are you shining the light where it matters? #softwaretesting #softwareengineering #quality #leadership #trust #brijeshsays

#Product leaders live in a maze of pressure: tight #deadlines, unpredictable users, and the constant fear of one bad release wrecking reputation. Who's the first line on the battlefield? Testers. We're the early-warning system that spots risks before they explode. The biggest battles we help fight: 1️⃣ Reputation on the line One hidden flaw can kill #trust. Testers catch it before it reaches users and thus protect credibility. 2️⃣ Deadline chaos Leaders want speed and stability. #QA blends automation + regression testing, making releases fast without becoming reckless. 3️⃣ User blind spots Roadmaps never cover every "weird" user journey. Testers simulate the unexpected so frustration never makes it to production. 4️⃣ #Scaling stress Growth exposes weak spots. Load & stress testing gives leaders confidence that the product can actually handle the scale. #Testers make invisible risks visible👀 We don’t just find bugs: we give product leaders the confidence to move fast without breaking trust. Smooth releases. Happy users. Roadmap intact.

✨ Chaos doesn’t have to be chaotic. At Agile Testing Days, Sonja Nesic will share the real story behind three years of running Chaos Day, and why success depends less on the tech and more on the people, preparation, and purpose. If you’ve ever: - Wondered how to build real confidence in your systems, - Needed a way to rally teams across dev, ops, and test, - Struggled to make resilience more than a buzzword, …this talk will give you the roadmap, lessons learned, and critical pitfalls to avoid. Spoiler: It’s not about breaking things, it's about building better humans and healthier systems. Let’s tame the chaos together 🔗 Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e8H5EkMW #ChaosEngineering #DevOpsCulture #AgileTestingDays #ResilienceEngineering

I once worked in a team that didn’t write tests. We had bugs, regressions, late-night hotfixes - the usual chaos. Yet, the team stayed in the comfort zone of “it works, let’s ship it.” No argument helped - until I stopped talking. Instead of convincing, I started 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴. Every task I picked up came with tests. Every PR review request included both the feature and the proof it worked. No pressure, no lecture - just a visible example. Then something interesting happened: one engineer added a test. Then another. Within a few weeks, the team started discussing testing approaches and even experimenting with TDD. This experience taught me something crucial - 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻’𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. Here are a few ways I’ve seen this work beyond just writing tests: ✅ 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲 – Show, don’t tell. Nothing is more persuasive than working code and a clean pattern to follow. ✅ 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 – Highlight the moments when someone uses the new practice successfully. Recognition builds momentum. ✅ 𝗖𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝘄-𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 – Pair programming, internal demos, or shared learning sessions help others see the value firsthand. ✅ 𝗟𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – Provide templates, tools, automation or documentation that make adopting new habits easier. ✅ 𝗕𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁 – Change in engineering culture is more evolution than revolution. Change doesn’t happen through mandates - it spreads through example, clarity, and trust. 👉 What’s one engineering practice you helped your team adopt - and how did you do it? #EngineeringCulture #Leadership #SoftwareDevelopment #TeamManagement #ContinuousImprovement

“Testing is a solved problem.” Ask many engineers, and that’s what you’ll hear. But what if that belief is holding your teams back? At #AgileTD, Callum Akehurst-Ryan will challenge that assumption, and give you a powerful tool to shift the conversation. Callum’s talk will explore 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗤𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗥𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗿 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘆𝗼𝘂: - uncover invisible testing gaps in engineering teams - move beyond the illusion of "complete test coverage" - create shared goals around quality coaching This is more than a talk - it’s a lens to transform how teams think about quality. The results? Better collaboration, smarter hiring, and fewer blind spots in your testing strategy. ✅ Proven insights from teams who’ve used this framework 🎯 Clear outcomes for testers, devs, managers, and coaches 💡 And a wake-up call for anyone who thinks “we’ve got testing covered” See more → https://lnkd.in/eqU4J8bv #QualityEngineering #AgileTesting #SoftwareDevelopment #TeamCollaboration