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Workshop F13

21st Century Skills for a Tester

Emna Ayadi

Ard Kramer

14:00-15:45 CEST Friday 10th June

What are the skills that you need to survive the digital 21st century? Soft Skills! In our tutorial, we will tell you how we explored these skills and we need your tips to help others!

In this fast-changing world, you can ask yourself, what are the skills that I should have to be able to make a difference with the colleagues around me?

Some will think that hard skills will make the difference but when you look around in your organization and what kind of persons are successful as in appreciated, valued, and just nice people? Mostly, people who are able to use their soft skills! And these soft skills are seen as the distinct skills to excel in the 21st century.

The summary of the skills of the 21st century can be defined with 4 C’s; Communication, Critical Thinking, Creativity, and Collaboration.

With this knowledge we started our journey with a simple question: How do those 4 C’s relate to testing: are testers already applying those skills or have they thought about how to apply them in the future?

The result of our journey was a book: “the 21st-century skills for testers” where testers all around the world answered those two questions. They shared their stories about how they communicate, how they apply critical thinking in their organization, how they collaborate with team members, and how they apply critical thinking as a tester.

In our tutorial, we are very curious how attendees of the EuroSTAR apply the 21st-century skills in their work. Can the attendees give tips for others on how to improve those 21st-century skills. So what are we going to do during our tutorial ? First, we will start the first round. We will challenge the attendees to get inspiration and share their thoughts on how they apply these skills at their work right now. These thoughts and experiences will be the inspiration for the second round. This round is focused on reflecting on new ideas and sharing your inspirations, tips how to improve the 4C’s. Then you can also elaborate what has been shared during your round by adding new ideas in every round.

They will have the opportunity to write down the tips on flipcharts. The results of the flipcharts will be the input for us to write the extension of our book and we will mention everybody that participated in this session.

What you will learn

  1. Get more acquainted with the four skills of the 21st century; communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking
  2. How can you use these four skills as a tester?
  3. Get fresh ideas how to apply the skills in your team

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 90 minutes
  • Interactive Workshop
  • People, Teams and Culture
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Check out this video from Emna Ayadi and Ard Kramer to hear more about their talk on 21st Century Skills for a Tester.

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2022.

Session Speakers

Emna Ayadi EuroSTAR 2022 speaker

Emna Ayadi

Test Coach – Sogeti, France

Emna Ayadi is a QA Coach from Tunisia. She started her career as a tester 6 years ago and got the chance to work on different projects combined between testing and coaching roles. Currently she works at Sogeti France. She is a Ministry of Testing meetup organizer in Sfax and Lille. Outside of work, travelling is her favorite pastime but while everyone is working from home, her hobby has become travelling via food.

Session Co-Speaker

Ard Kramer EuroSTAR 2022 Speaker

Ard Kramer

Consultant – OrangeCrest, Netherlands

Ard is a software tester from the Netherlands and he is working for OrangeCrest Consulting. He calls himself a Qualisopher which stands for someone “who loves truth and wisdom and at the same time is decisive to improve man and his environment”. This means he is interested in the world around us, to see what he can learn and he can apply in software testing. His dream is to participate, as a good qualisopher, in all kinds of projects such as sports, culture, or software testing. Projects which add value to our community: he wants to inspire other people by cooperation, fun, and empathy and hopefully bring light to someone’s life.

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