Ready Tester One? Go!

30-minute Talk

The industry needs testers, but doesn’t understand how to help career growth. This should lay a foundation or a framework for testers growth and a general path for a career in testing.

Timetable

2:25 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. Thursday 7th

Room

Room F2 - Track 2: Talks

Audience

Anyone looking for ways to develop their own career path or those in roles hoping to help folks.

Required

mobile phone

Key-Learning

  • Desire to set a learning path for their career growth not focused on managment or developer
  • Interested in games and gaming and want to look for ways to enjoy both
  • Creating a character sheet out of personal resume
  • Tips on how to learn new skills
  • Tips on looking for opportunities to learn skills

Based on my blog post, “Ready Tester One? Go!” I take a look at my own career development and the need to understand a probable career development path for testers in software development. By using and identifying with gaming techniques such as “leveling”, testers are encouraged to find where they think they are in their career growth and then find out how they should continue along the “tester” path and what that might look like as you gain levels. Includes a nifty character sheet people can use to chart their own learning path!

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