Petro Tarasenko "You've become a TL. What's next?"

1. 27.10.2019
You’ve become a QA TL. What’s
next?

2. Петро
Тарасенко
В QA з 2013р.
В IT з 2008 р.
QA TL / QA Guild Master @ wix.com
QA Meetups organizer in Dnipro

3. A short story…

4. ✤C

5. Date
Info gathering

7. Michael Bolton
“As a member of the Context-Driven School
Software testing, I maintain there’re no
universally best results available from
testing, just as there’re no BEST practices”

9. What to talk
about?
- What you expect from me?
- What you expect from QA?
- What works good with QA?
- What doesn’t work with QA?
- If we as QA could change something
quickly and it made a big impact, what
would it be?

10. Key people?
- Testing team
- Your manager
- Dev teams, products, support

11. Testing team
- Maturity(seniority) level
- Project/Domain/Technical knowledge level

14. Your manager
- Priorities
- Expectations & Outcomes

15. Allies vs Naysayers

16. Introduce yourself

17. Date
Take your time and learn

18. Make a solid plan

19. Golden circle by
Simon Sinek

20. What plan covers
Plan can be either a document in the KB or Presentation
Current status &
Main challenges
(WHY)
Future vision &
How it can be done
(HOW)
When and what exactly
will be done
(WHAT)

21. ✤ Main challenges
✤ The vision
✤ Automation
✤ QA development
✤ Knowledge base
✤ Processes
✤ Main KPI
✤ Main milestones (detailed plan)
✤ QA Efforts & Involvement

22. Current status &
Main challenges
- 3 people out of 5 are new
- Big automation technical debt (Mobile is almost
zero)
- No transparency in automation coverage
- Only 1 engineer is doing automation
- QA is still out of time estimation process
(sometimes QA becomes a bottleneck because few
tasks come simultaneously)
- Prod incidents because of missed regression bugs

24. Date

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30. Engineers vs Manager timing
version
For Management For Engineers

31. Date
Plan together

32. Date
Everything goes inside!

33. Date
Management usually doesn’t have
much time…So…

34. Do a rehearse!

35. Date
So true!!!

36. Date
Execution

38. Change
management

39. Questions?