interviews
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Discovery checklist – Navigating the initial obscurity of client engagements
QA/Testing consultants are typically expected to “hit the ground running”. As a QA/Testing consultant where do you start in terms of understanding the Client’s current Testing/QA practices ? and the context under which their Projects are run/Products are delivered ? Below is a checklist of prompts that I use to facilitate initial “discovery” phase of… Continue reading
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Layered Testing Automation “skills” & what makes the onion whole ?
From the perspective of automating Testing in complex mission critical products , the skills that you need are layered, nuanced and complimentary like an onion. Layer 1(The bulb) – Tooling layer Learning and applying Programming & Tooling skills in Testing is hard Layer 2 – Critical thinking & decision making layer What is harder is… Continue reading
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Looking for adaptability while hiring Project Leaders
“Agile/Lean” ways of working are fast becoming the norm in enterprises (especially software) , but you still see emphasis on “control, predict and linear plan” style of project management. Project management mechanics are important and no denying that delivering in sprints is not a guise to not plan at all ,however,I have observed a lot… Continue reading
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If you just had 1 Testing question to hire/reject a QA candidate
It is unfair to judge a candidate through just one challenge or exercise, but image that you are in a (non-violent & harmonious) Squid Game situation and as the hiring manager you were only allowed one Testing challenge to pose to the candidate , what would that be and why? Something that is related to… Continue reading
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About Me
I’m Sunjeet Khokhar
An experienced People Leader,Practice Lead and Test Manager .
I am driven by the success of people around me, am a keen student of organisational behaviour and firmly believe that we can be better craftspeople by being better humans first.
the reluctant tester 