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Track Talk F6

21st Century Stress Management for the Busy Tester

Kristina Sabotic

Carin Norling

10:30-11:30 Friday 14th June

Experiences of unhealthy stress and exhaustion syndrome. Stina and Carin will give you a 360 view on how exhaustion syndrome lurks in the hallways of QA professionals. Stina is a QA consultant who fell into the trap of working day and night, taking on ever growing responsibilities until she fell ill from it. Carin is a manager, often meeting similarly stressed QA consultants, continually trying to find early signs of unhealthy stress, and helping convalescents return to work.

As QA professionals, we are trained to spot things that are wrong, and we´re really good at it. Not just errors in software, but everywhere! It’s a blessing and a curse. Being the test leader on a project often means also finding what’s dysfunctional in the ways of working, such as requirements, release, agile methodology. We find it either proactively through our habit of risk-based thinking, or later when chaos breaks loose.

We tend to take on these responsibilities as well, in addition to the normal test activities. “Of course, I, the test lead, can be an agile coach and do some requirements management too! Or this release will fail!”

This is often a benefit to the projects we´re in but carries a personal risk of unhealthy stress and burnout.

So, let’s talk stress management in the looming shadow of burnout. What stress and exhaustion are, how it works, what the return journey might look like.

What you will learn

  1. Exhaustion syndrome takes time to heal, as new cell growth dictates how fast you can heal since your brain has been physically altered by the stress
  2. Reduce stress by setting boundaries. At work this often involves reviewing self-imposed responsibilities
  3. A common red flag for unhealthy stress is when activities that are normally energizing stop being so

Session Details

  • Introductory
  • 1 Hour
  • Includes 20mins Discussion
  • Recruitment, training & people development
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Session Speaker

Kristina Sabotic

QA Consultant – Zington, Sweden

Kristina, “Stina”, has been working in QA for over ten years, and the last few years as a consultant for Zington. She loves operating in the grey area between tech and business, where there is need for a translator and sometimes a mediator. Favourite type of assignment is setting up test automation strategy for organizations that are new to automation. It’s diplomacy, techy know-how and change management rolled up in one! In the end you´re rewarded with seeing the team adopting that automation baby as its own. When not busy at work or with her family, Stina loves to knit and spin her own yarn for knitting.

Headshot of EuroSTAR 2024 speaker Carin Norling

Carin Norling

Head of Zington Quality – Zington, Sweden

Carin has a history of many years in IT. First as a developer but then as a performance tester, test manager and test strategist. Over the years, she has alternated this with being a consultant manager, running her own business and now for 7 years responsible for Zington Quality.

Over the years, Carin has met many organizations and thus even more people, and gained a lot of knowledge about people. But a disease like fatigue is so difficult to detect and very important to talk about. After all, it’s not about just “biting the bullet” or toughening up, but about finding a sustainable balance in life.

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