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.

1. Reinventing our QA roles
for Quality Engineering
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Antoine Craske
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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
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3. 6 months
Source: The Fastest Startups to Hit $1 Billion Valuations, Visual Capitalist
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4. 3 months
Source: The Fastest Startups to Hit $1 Billion Valuations, Visual Capitalist
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5. Source: The Fastest Startups to Hit $1 Billion Valuations, Visual Capitalist
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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
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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
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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
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9. The quality paradox
“Quality” or “Speed” “Quality at Speed”
Speed
Quality
Quality
Speed
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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
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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
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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

31. Obrigado :)
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Antoine Craske
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