The document discusses a career change from teaching to becoming a QA engineer. It describes why the person loved teaching but left due to stress, and how they discovered tech through an introduction to programming class and bootcamp. They then got an internship at Twitter where they performed well and were hired. The document then explains what QA engineering involves like ensuring quality, testing, and automation. It provides examples of QA tools and processes used like continuous integration, code auditing, and acceptance testing. It encourages the reader to consider a career in QA engineering.

1. Let’s Talk QA

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Who Am I?
💑
🐶
📷
🌲
📖
💻

3. Changing Careers

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Why I Loved Teaching
• Helping kids discover & learn 📚🔬)
• Supporting kids & families *
• Seeing my kids succeed 🥇
• Good challenges 💪
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Why I Left Teaching
• Unsupported
• High behavioral needs
• Stress of teaching outweighed joys
😩 🤷 💔

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How I Found Tech
• Nudge from my husband
• Intro to Programming
• Fun! Challenging! Interesting!
• Full-stack JavaScript bootcamp
• Internship

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Internship
• Twitter
• Mentorship Saturdays
• Asked for a job
• Kicked ass
• Hired!

8. QA Engineer

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What Even is QA?
• Quality Assurance
• Holding work to requirements
• Edge cases
• Automated testing
• Acceptance testing

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How Do I QA?
• Organize 🗄
• Prioritize 🚥
• Ask questions❓
• Lead improvements 🚀 💥
• Remove blockers 🛑 ➡ ✅

11. QA Tools & Process

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Continuous Integration
• Automatic checks
• Prevents bad deploys
• Many tools

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Code Audit

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Code Audit

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Visual Regression

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Documentation

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Jira
Mine

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Acceptance Tests
• Create a partner
• Upload image
• Enter title
• Reorder partners

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How Can You QA?
• User experience
• Linters
• Code audit yourself
• Visual regressions

22. Questions?

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Q&A
• Tools
• Teams
• Career
• Process
• Communication