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What Are You Doing Here? Become an Awesome Leader in Testing

Ard Kramer

Laveena Ramchandani

09:00-17:00 Tuesday 11th June

It looks so simple but it’s so hard to achieve: The optimal conditions for conducting testing. Because if you want that testing to be done effectively, testers need to have space around them, and inside their head. After all, it’s not a skill where you blindly follow a script and see if the outcome matches your expectations.

It’s a mindset in which you need to get to know and challenge an application. Getting to know it requires multiple perspectives: everything from the intended value to the technical solutions to achieve that. Additionally, it’s all human work, and humans are fallible. We all have biases and cognitive errors that we make, which can be the source of unexpected behavior in an application. As testers, we seek out these thinking errors, from the ones we start with in software development, to the ones that may manifest in production because our end users turn out to be excellent testers as well.

To successfully navigate this entire cycle, testers need mental space to apply creativity, make mistakes, and conduct research and experiments on software, in collaboration with colleagues. This requires an environment that facilitates such activities. But how well are we equipped to create these conditions?

This takes leadership!

In our workshop, we want to help you feel capable of creating good conditions. We will use the perspectives of an (agile) tester, and a test lead/manager. During the workshop, we will lead you through different software development phases, where you should be able to manage your testing and the expectations of others. Therefore we also have exercises to improve your (inter)personal skills.

Upon exiting the room, you will have gained valuable insights, received intriguing input, and completed interesting exercises that equip you to become a leader in testing.

What you will learn

  1. Transferable skills
  2. A safe testing space
  3. Become an approachable leader in testing

Session Details

  • Intermediate
  • 7 Hours
  • Interactive Tutorial
  • The Testing role
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Check out this video from Ard Kramer and Laveena Ramchandani to hear more about their talk, ‘What Are You Doing Here? Become an Awesome Leader in Testing’.

We look forward to welcoming you to EuroSTAR 2024.

Session Speakers

Ard Kramer EuroSTAR 2023 Speaker

Ard Kramer

Qualisopher – OrangeCrest, Netherlands

Ard is a software tester from the Netherlands and works for OrangeCrest. 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 subsequently apply in software testing. That is one of the reasons why Ard tells stories in books and at (test) conferences such as EuroStar, Expo:QA, TestWarez, TestingCup, and Romanian Testing Conference. Besides working in IT he is also active in sport (volleyball) as a board member of the Dutch Volleyball Association

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Laveena Ramchandani

QE Manager – EasyJet, United Kingdom

Laveena Ramchandani is a passionate Test Manager, who’s been testing for nearly 10 years, and is always seeking to learn and share. She is a community leader for data science testing and testing in general. Her entry on the digital platform has enhanced many individuals to learn a new area within testing. Laveena was a finalist for The Digital Star 2022 at the everywoman in Technology awards. She has also been on various podcasts and blogs, and trains new testers as part of the Coders Guild. She is also an international speaker.

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