Reinventing our QA roles for Quality Engineering
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This document discusses reinventing QA roles for Quality Engineering. It suggests Quality Engineering requires transversal competencies that combine skills from testing, automation, DevOps, product development and more. Emerging Quality Engineering roles are described including Platform Quality Engineer, Product Quality Engineer, and Quality Engineering Advisor. Adopting Quality Engineering is portrayed as a gradual process, with mentoring and continuous learning playing important roles.
Reinventing our QA roles for Quality Engineering
- 1. Reinventing our QA roles for Quality Engineering acraske qeunit.com Antoine Craske acraske_
- 2. Who am I La Redoute Director of Technology Transformation Director of Architecture & Technology Senior Director of Engineering Senior Engineering Manager Previous positions of Project Director, IT Manager. Project Manager, Software Engineer Entrepreneurship Co-founder, atale.io Co-founder, Cerberus Testing Co-founder, Test Automation Camp Communities Speaker at DevOps, Software, Testing, Open source conferences QE Unit, founder & organizer of the Quality Engineering community TICE.Leiria, Meetup founder & organizer Ministry of Testing Leiria, Meetup founder & organizer Apache Kafka User Group Portugal, Meetup founder & organizer Archilocus, Architecture community co-founder & co-organizer Publications On Defining Quality Engineering, QE Unit - with Rémi Dewitte (on Leanpub, Amazon) Improving La Redoute's CI/CD Pipeline and DevOps Processes by Applying Machine Learning Techniques, ResearchGate. Collecting Data from Continuous Practices: an Infrastructure to Support Team Development, ResearchGate. Antoine CRASKE #digital #architecture #transformation #qualityengineering #qe #testautomation #opensource @acraske_ linkedin/acraske qeunit.com
- 3. 6 months Source: The Fastest Startups to Hit $1 Billion Valuations, Visual Capitalist @acraske_
- 4. 3 months Source: The Fastest Startups to Hit $1 Billion Valuations, Visual Capitalist @acraske_
- 5. Source: The Fastest Startups to Hit $1 Billion Valuations, Visual Capitalist @acraske_
- 6. “In Today’s era of volatility, there is no other way but to re-invent. The only sustainable advantage you can have over others is agility, that’s it. Because nothing else is sustainable, everything else you create, somebody else will replicate.” “There is no alternative to digital transformation. Visionary companies will carve out new strategic options for themselves — those that don’t adapt, will fail.” —Jeff Bezos, Founder, Amazon “Software defines the speed at which business can deliver change and innovation” —Drew Lanham, CEO at Cypress.io Deloitte 2021 Quality Engineering Report: Emerging Technology Driving QE to a Top Priority for Enterprises, Deloitte 2021 Quality Engineering Trends Evolve or… Die @acraske_
- 7. Need of new revenue streams Acceleration 1B€ 75% 85% 1B€ valuation in less than 2 years Competition Jobs will be reinvented until 2030 Transformation Acceleration for everyone @acraske_
- 8. Quality is hard “Quality is not my job”‒Product Owner “It’s like no one cares about testing”‒QA Lead “We wait for QA to deliver”‒Tech Lead “What’s the ROI of Quality?”‒CxO @acraske_
- 9. The quality paradox “Quality” or “Speed” “Quality at Speed” Speed Quality Quality Speed @acraske_
- 10. Agility DevOps Craft Governance Lean Management Time to market Approach Architecture Organization Observability Design Thinking Skills management Tools Management Platform Management Quality Assistance QA Coach Autonomy Mentoring Measureme nt Quality Engineering Quality Engineering builds upon QA, but not only ….
- 11. Quality Engineering constrains the entire software lifecycle
- 12. Quality Engineering constrains the entire software lifecycle References: Chain-link theory, Liebig’s law of minimum
- 13. Quality Engineering relies on multiple practices
- 14. The framework addresses the entire system
- 15. Reinventing our QA roles for Quality Engineering Which skills? Which roles? Which challenges?
- 16. Companies need transversality @acraske_ Source: World Quality Report 2022-2023, Sogeti
- 17. Quality Engineering requires transversal competencies Agile tester Quality Engineering Left & Right
- 18. QUALITY ENGINEERING CLOUD SHIFT LEFT DEVOPS SHIFT RIGHT SHIFT UP CHAOS IOT AUTOMATION TEST STRATEGY BDD 3 AMIGOS EXAMPLE MAPPING PERFORMANCE SÉCURITÉ TOOLING DATA MANAGEMENT API CROWD CURIOSITY COMMUNICATION LISTENING CREATIVITY RIGUEUR LOGIC DISCIPLINE ACCESSIBILITY BUG NO CODE MOBILE CRAFT COACHING OBSERVABILITY MODEL BASED TESTING QE skills are multiple and complementary
- 19. That’s too much
- 20. QE Role Quality Engineering skills as incremental legos QE Role QE Role SDLC Product QE Role Test Auto Product Test Auto QE Role SDLC Test Auto QE Role SDLC Platform DevOps Product SDLC Supervision SRE QE Role Product SDLC Supervision SRE Support ITIL Test Auto QE Role SDLC Platform DevOps Transversalité des compétences Niveau de spécialisation I T 𝚷 Transversalité des compétences Reference of T-shape: "The hunt is on for the Renaissance Man of computing," in The Independent, September 17, 1991 I shape T shape PI-shape Comb-shape
- 21. Stretching QA
- 22. Emerging roles in Quality Engineering PLATFORM QUALITY ENGINEER QUALITY ENGINEER CRAFT QA ENGINEER PRODUCT QUALITY ENGINEER QUALITY ENGINEERING ADVISOR QUALITY ENGINEERING MANAGER
- 24. Adopting Quality Engineering is gradual Traditional organizations Agile & DevOps Quality Engineering (with or without Agile & DevOps)
- 25. Infra m anagem ent Software engineering Leadership & management Careers paths examples Functional tester Autom ation tester Agile QA Foundations API Automation basis Advanced Testing Quality Assurance Engineer Lead Quality Engineering Manager Quality Management Quality Engineer Craft Automation speciality Clean code, TDD Programming DDD Platform Quality Engineer DevOps tools Cloud Non-functional test Quality Engineering Advisor Coaching
- 26. Where mentoring is key Facilitation and emulation T T CT Focus on soft-skills In situation training
- 27. Continuous learning is our challenge Mentoring/coaching Conferences Meetups Continuous training Peer sharing Community of practices Technology watch Community survey, The Most Important Quality Engineering Skills We Are All Missing, QE Unit (2022)
- 28. Build Better. Build Faster. —The Quality Engineering Principle @acraske_
- 29. Quality Engineering is progressive
- 30. Join open communities, share & learn #peer-review #support #content-sharing #mentoring #content qeunit.com ISTQB network: PSTQB, CFTL, … moderntesting.org & AB Testing Podcast, Slack La Test Communauté Wealcome (Craft) platformengineering.org