leadership
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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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Fostering blameless communication of Quality
Blame follows the incline of organisational hierarchy and in poor work cultures it flows down unfiltered & unmanaged. Effective mid-level Engineering Managers are like lightning conductors, absorbing that blame when it comes down the incline and ensuring that the Team’s productivity is impervious to it (but not at the cost of the Team continuously reflecting… Continue reading
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Career decision making – Choosing a pizza that comes with slices missing
Stick around and fight or quit ? Why is it worth continuing ? These are quintessential questions, applicable both to professional and personal context How do you decide you next career step ? What decision making model do you apply ? Backstory for this post Having been in independent Testing/QA contracting for ~ 5 years… Continue reading
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Root patterns of organisational silos
The single most influential factor that dedicates if organisations succeed at their goals, is the ability of their business units/Teams to work together in alignment towards those goals I have learnt that behaviours that bring misalignment, e.g siloed behaviours (defensiveness, back stabbing, closed attitudes towards new ideas ,ambiguity on accountability) are symptoms of something systemic… Continue reading
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Leader “type”
You know that you are working with a leader,when they….. are serious about making an impact get stressed but don’t shout acknowledge failure publicly don’t hoard knowledge self deprecate check how you slept when your kid is sick don’t create factual fog to justify their instinctive decisions don’t hog the limelight admit when they don’t… Continue reading
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Recent Posts
- Robust Test design with Playwright – using .getbyRole()
- Discovery checklist – Navigating the initial obscurity of client engagements
- Browser state transfer between Tests in Playwright
- Fostering blameless communication of Quality
- Observability – advocacy heuristics for Testers/Devs “new” to the system
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 