Why Should I Hire You
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Practical career-development advice for software testers, covering strategies for starting out, transitioning roles, and building a toolkit for long-term growth. Draws on Rob Bowyer’s experience as a test manager, coach and hiring manager across domains (healthcare, mobile, education, municipal) and his mentorship and community work to provide actionable guidance for advancing a testing career.
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chapters (30)
- 0:00Start
- 0:26Introduction
- 1:38A Tester's Syllabus
- 2:00The Main Nodes
- 4:25Recognize your transferable skills
- 4:55Develop/Collect a tool set (automated or not)
- 6:07Keep your learning current (webinars, online articles, blogs, twitter)
- 8:16Keep a Notebook Handy
- 10:52Agile Testing Quadrants
- 11:53Knowing a little programming comes in handy
- 12:21You can still be a great tester if you are a programmer
- 12:49Pair Testing/Programming
- 13:05Code reviewing
- 13:20Tooling
- 14:17Career Paths
- 15:13Do things that are a little outside of your field (Hacker Nest, Agile meetups, Hackathons, etc)
- 16:31Your Community - Know who's out there
- 17:32Be a part of the community
- 18:37Contribute to the community!
- 19:57Be a part of a local network
- 22:01AND have a profile pic!!
- 23:35Getting Hired
- 24:09Resume
- 27:23Research the hell out of the company
- 28:30Interview process
- 29:07Be prepared for the predictable ques
- 29:58Be Prepared for Unpredictable Questions
- 31:36Take cues from the environment you are interviewing in
- 32:21Tactfully ask about next steps
- 33:18Follow up with a thank you - express interest
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