Megan was a former tester. Now, she trains testers.
She is responsible for her QA department’s three-year-old New Employee Orientation program. Her job? She runs a week-long curriculum that immerses new employees into her company's software, and then, introduces them to basic testing concepts.
The successes? New employees are more prepared to contribute right away, according to management. All employees now have a common base of knowledge upon which they are expected to be able to build.
The challenges? Many new employees have no experience testing. The class size might be one employee, or ten. If an employee falls behind early in the week, catching up can be difficult.
The plans? Expand the program. Offer classes and workshops for new employees over a six-month span. Create classes in performance testing, working with databases, and a pair testing workshop. Use tester games to help teach testing fundamentals.
The fledgling program helps create better-equipped testers. Let Megan share how.
What you can expect from this session:
- Ideas on how to educate brand-new testers
- Stories of what worked and what didn’t
- An outline of their program
- How her team keeps department leadership “in the loop”
