Олександр Струков “QA skills keeping it up to date”

1. QA Skills
Keeping it up to date
By: Oleksandr Strukov

2. Agenda
• Introduction.
• History of the QA day
• Skills to start from
• QA skills set. [ Middle QAQC ]
– Dive into hard skills
– Dive into soft skills
• Planning our education.
• Skillset to aim to QA.

3. Who Am I
• My Name is Oleksandr Strukov
• Senior QA. Abto Software

4. QA. Slice of History
• 9.09.1945 – Does this day mean anything to
you?
[Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator. Harvard ]

5. Skills to start from
• Hard skills :
– English [ Intermediate ]
– Basic computer knowledge
– How surfing in the internet
works [html? Browser types ]
– Mobile [ AndroidIOS ]
– Knowledge of what is testing. And why we need it. [test documentation, test
types, etc..]
Soft skills:
– Communication
– Team player
– Adaptability
– Critical observation
– Ability to analyze

6. Skills to start from
• Surfing in the web : ?
– What browser types do you know
– What is usability testing?
– What priority to set for home page design / functional part.
• Mobile testing :
– Have you performed testing on IOS
– Have you performed testing on Android
– Do you know what are main sensors in mobile.
• Test planning
– Create test cases. Rules
– Create check lists
– Do you know what is test plan [ IEEE 829] and it’s difference with real
test plan delivered to client.
– Why do we need requirements?

7. Skills to start from
• Soft skills :
– Communication
• Raise a ticket
• Keep team up to date
– Time management
– Motivation
– Adaptability
– Creativity
– Ability to analyze
– Team player

8. Skills Out there:
• Grey box, White box, testing
• Domain knowledge
– Analyze the domain under test.
– Suggest and create presentations , for client.
– Suggest improving software based on the domain knowledge
• BA
– Analyze and create requirements
– Create up to date documentation in big and complex projects
• UIUX
– Creating wireframes
– Creating vision of end user
– Analyzing user needs and customer needs
• Automation
– API testing
– Performance testing
– Security testing
– Web automation
– Mobile automation
• Security
– Owasp top 10 Vulnerabilities
– Using automation and scripts
– Reverse engineering
• Test planning
• SDLC
• Programming

9. Time to learn???
• It is impossible to know everything I don’t
have time.
• Priorities. Time has nothing to do with it.
• Josh Kaufman | TEDxCSU
[ The first 20 hours- how to learn anything ]
– Planning
– Have 0.5 hours -1 hour time each iteration
– Work so for 20 hours.
– Achieve skill

10. What to expect

11. Vacancies

12. New Tech - new testing
• VR
• AR
• Neuroheadsets
• First Games In VR :
• Wearable's

13. What Should I know ?
• Java / c# / Python programming
• Unit testing
• Usability / UX testing and knowledge
• Gamification knowledge
• Security testing
• Automation – MUST!
• PM QA Merging
• DevOps
• Cloud

14. What Should I know ?
• Communication skills
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Adaptability
• Problem solving
• Critical observation
• Conflict resolution
• Able to held presentation for wide audience
• MOTIVATION

15. OOP principals in help
• Abstraction
– Decompose complex tasks into smaller components.
• Planning your work and Mind map
• Using courses there in WWW.
– Corsera
– Udacity
– Edx
– Udemy
– Futurelearn
• Don’t forget about Josh Kaufman
• Develop your skillset together with soft skills.

16. Questions:

17. Thank you