Quality assurance engineer (Andrzej Doliński) and Global Head of the Quality Assurance department (I), employing over 60 people - will return to the roots and the magic word Engineer, which does not always appear in the name of Tester's position nowadays. We live in a dynamically changing world, with the IT industry at the centre of these changes. More and more often, Scrum is obsolete and slowly takes on the role of waterfalls. In the Test world is similar, just read the reviews about ISTQB. Using a great demand for employees, many people want to retrain to IT and choose the profession of tester because .... There are many reasons. They can find many tips on discussion groups or forums for people who want to retrain. But do these bits of advice keep up with the dynamic changes in the way software is delivered and the needs of employers? During the presentation, will consider how the way of delivering projects has changed, taking into account its impact on the testing itself, and thus on the skills needed. We will address the most common reasons why candidates fall out during recruitment. We promise that we will not only complain but at the end we advise on what you should learn when preparing for a job interview as the test engineer.

1. We are all engineers
by Andrzej Doliński & Zbyszek Moćkun
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2. Intro@Andrzej
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3. Intro@Zbyszek
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4. Agenda
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01 The Why?
02 The time has changed
03 T-Shaped teams
04 Employer’s point of view
05 The modern tester
06 Tips & Tricks

5. The Why?
▪ Conference, meetups, discussion groups
–a lot of small talks with people who would like to move to IT
▪ Recruitment - oldies
– Could you describe the architecture of the application system you are currently testing?
– How the architecture of solution impacts your testing?
▪ Recruitment - newbies
– People lost freedom because of the official standards
– Success rate: 1 of 30
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6. The Why? - newbies
▪ I wanna be a Tester! Ohh sorry… I wanna be a software test engineer!
–I have no experience, but… I know a lot!
–I haven’t tested anything, but… I have ISTQB FL
–I wanna be a billionaire!
▪ I’m not sure what happens, when I type URL address…
–But you are an incredible guy!
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7. The Why?
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Sacrifice

8. The time has changed
Has testing changed too?
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9. Long long time ago
▪ Waterfall approach which usually
means
▪ big and rare releases
▪ which impact almost the whole code
base (application)
▪ sometimes even the ecosystem
▪ and requires full regression tests
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10. Long long time ago
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Optimize the number of tests using different test techniques,
based on requirements / test case coverage

11. Now and the future (Agile/DevOps)
▪ Each code change (feature) is tested
and delivered separately
▪ which usually impacts a small area of
the code base (application)
▪ and requires small regression tests
(automation + exploration)
▪ where QA approach is more and more
popular
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12. Now and the future
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Identify the areas of impact and optimize the number of tests
using technical knowledge

13. The business is here
▪ OLD: business not involved in
delivery
–tester gives a business view
–Tester is responsible for simple E2E
testing
▪ NEW: business as a part of the team
–business takes over the above testers’
responsibilities
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14. App doesn’t work in isolation
Ecosystem:
▪ Hardware, OS
▪ Networks, Protocols
▪ Other apps (services)
▪ Database
New areas for testing:
▪ Delivery Pipelines as a code
▪ Infrastructure as a code
▪ Serverless
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15. Real issues are almost hidden
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Sometimes the biggest treats are hidden.
The short story how a Tester saved millions $$ by additional
testing out of sheer curiosity.

16. T-Shaped teams
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Adapting to varying demand

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18. Employer’s point of view
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19. Employer's point of view
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What can I teach newbies?
▪ ISTQB
▪ How to raise a bug
▪ Testing
What can’t I teach newbies?
▪ Passion to IT
▪ Curiosity
▪ Problem solving

20. The Modern Tester
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21. The modern tester definition
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Good testers are people who have enough technical knowledge
to isolate anomalous behavior. They have enough
communication skills to create good bug reports which clearly
describe problems so they can be isolated and fixed. They enjoy
digging into software and tracking down problems.
Kate Paulk

22. Tips&Tricks
Let’s stop complaining
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23. Move to IT, learn IT
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Learning IT doesn't start from coding. Configure your home
router.
Postgraduate studies: Testing vs Software Engineering vs
Internet Application

24. Learn testing by solving technical tasks
▪ Create your own page (use CMS)
–Test the structure of your page by typing different urls
▪ Figure out where the data is stored
–turn off the DB and open your page
▪ Add Cookie disclaimer to the page
–test if the cookie disclaimer works and then describe the rules
▪ Change the color of a button
–test if the change works on a different browser,
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Thank you