How do you stay relevant in Quality Assurance?

To stay ahead in QA, I make it a priority to stay updated on industry trends. I delve into blogs, newsletters, podcasts, and magazines covering QA topics, from testing tools to methodologies and challenges. Actively participating in online communities, forums, and social media groups allows me to engage with fellow QA experts, share my insights, and learn from their experiences. This commitment to staying informed and connected ensures that my QA skills are always up-to-date and relevant in the dynamic landscape of quality assurance.

Learn Discover insights from conferences, enriching YouTube channels, and insightful LinkedIn articles. Practice Apply your newfound knowledge both in your professional setting and through hands-on projects. Teach Empower others to learn effectively. Share your wisdom with the team, enhancing their performance.

Manufacturing sector are trend setters such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, 5S etc. Following Blogs, Magazines and associating with industry specific forums will give active participation in person to person interaction gain knowledge, experience sharing. QA of manufacturing sectors are based on years of R&D and rich experience of solving practical problems.

Keeping a journal of one’s activities - “lessons learned” related to QA/QC may be of help. It’s easier said than done. Those lessons can be published in blogs on-line and forums off-line. This brings originality. When peer group share their point of view, it adds to knowledge.

Continuing to be at the forefront of QA, I prioritize learning new skills and tools to boost efficiency, productivity, and quality. Engage in online courses, webinars, workshops, or certifications covering relevant QA topics like automation, performance, security, or accessibility testing. Explore tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Postman, JMeter, or Cucumber to automate, simplify, or enhance testing processes. By embracing new skills and tools, I not only broaden my QA capabilities but also contribute added value to our projects.

Dedication as a lifelong learner is what makes me feel most in tune with managing quality assurance processes. Learning new skills and tools, forming partnerships, listening to different perspectives, and creating new strategies is what sets great QA workers apart from their peers. In the workplace, I encounter individuals like myself who share this philosophy and work to contribute to the most quality outputs. In contrast, those who are not passionate about learning and advancement struggle to contribute in the same way. At the heart of a good QA leader, you will always find this foundation of curiosity and a genuine desire to learn.

Mantenho-me actualizada evoluindo com as ferramentas que a tecnologia hoje nos dá, com forma??es, melhorando a minha resposta à manuten??o e melhoria da qualidade

Involving or applying agile principles, doesn't necessary mean that, following ceremonies, or getting involved in frequent sprint related discussions. It means, to get it involved more towards shift left, getting more closely associated, with devs, architects, product owners or business analysts. Getting understanding of the product, both from engineering and domain aspects. This will bring you confidence in getting right testing results, providing timely feedback, getting requirements clear. By agile means, agile in thoughts, in nature of work too, we should be flexible enough to get accustomed with any kind of product or engineering stuffs, responsive enough to understand the ask and testing it according to customer demand

Feedback from your seniors, mentors or guides whom you adore to , always helps in long run to understand the growth path and learnings. 1. Have some career guidance sessions by organizing 1:1s. 2. Understand experience and journey of others and try to see what are the plans we can accommodate with our career journey. 3. Utilize the time to get some experience based learnings, like how things got changed, what better can be done with evolution of tech. And above all, the positive attitude and desire for learning will keep you updated in industry and will always lead to path of heights

Receiving feedback is one of the most important aspect to improve & test methods. Never be scare to ask or even send out a survey as the input is invaluable.

é sempre importante ter um feedback positivo por parte das pessoas com quem trabalhamos. Só adaptando a nossa linguagem e ferramentas de acordo com o público alvo se consegue que todos nos compreendam e nos sigam nos raciocínios, de modo à obten??o de um resultado reconhecido.

I see many people are so comfortable with what is working & when something is not they would blame the change on others. To succeed, we need to be open to change & adapt to suite our own environment & culture of work. Not everything is a sure fit but adapting & resizing will lead to a better way of doing the work.

This is something which everyone need to be aligned not only in QA field but all relevant fields wherever you want to grow and succeed. In software testing over the decades we have realised that paradigm shift from manual to automation, from basic test cases writing to doing coding and writing scripts , all are now basic part of testers life. These all can only be achieved once we have open mind to embrace or adapt the change , and challenge the industry needs with learning and growing on top of it. Utilize some space or free time to have self learning, prepare plans, and above the learning by doing always add value not in resume but also attribute to your confidence in long run.

I think this is the easiest way, to learn and grow. You always stay up to date not only by reading or listening, but also interacting a lot with people of different domain skills, and of same stack. Participating in conferences,meetups, tech talks , not only gives you enough knowledge about latest trends, but also boost your confidence level. People show their experience and expertise which gives you a new angle to nourish your thought process your learnings your experience get more enrich. Always note some key take aways and try to follow if it works then it create fantabulous impact on your career

In my QA journey, I actively embrace change and innovation to stay relevant. I foster an open-minded, curious, and creative testing mindset, challenging myself to try new approaches, experiment with diverse solutions, and explore innovative possibilities within testing scenarios. This commitment to embracing change ensures that my testing remains dynamic, exciting, and aligned with the evolving landscape of quality assurance.

Hoje em dia as redes sociais permitem o intercambio de ideias e ferramentas que nos ajudam na troca de ideias, actualiza??o de ideias e troca de ferramentas. é por isso mesmo uma ferramenta fácil e acessível.

LinkedIn skills is more aligned to service industries such as IT, software development etc. As a QA personnel for manufacturing industries, skills were different. Knowledge of international standards, manufacturing processes, destructive testing methods, engg. drawing reading skills, inspection methods. Engineering is a evolving process so there is no such latest trends. QA personnel involves setting quality assurance plan against product specifications which involves various destructive, non destructive testing, finally an independent agency to witness the same and certify the product. The independent agency is called third party inspection agency (TPIA). I'm a TPIA personnel with industry relevant skills, open to learn new skills.

Acho útil dizer que trabalhar as chamadas "soft skills" vai ajudar muito a se manter relevante para o mercado de trabalho. Muitas empresas, hoje, valorizam a forma como nos comunicamos, ouvimos, comportamos. Prova disso é que, várias organiza??es, adotaram o fit cultural como um tópico da sele??o dos candidatos. Evoluir tecnicamente é muito importante e incluir as soft skills nesse processo aumentará sua visibilidade.