You must be impressed with the ‘Idea’ AD and this time it is back with the ‘Walk when you talk’ idea. Abhishek Bacchan, who appears as a doctor in ‘Walk when you talk’ AD, this is a definitely out of an ordinary AD, but then, I wouldn’t expect anything else from the “Idea” AD; I love to see the AD and it’s one of my favorite AD since it’s place in line with my emotion and I hope with some of yours emotion as well.
Is it just an AD in changing the health and mind-set of people or an AD to increase the mobile connection sales?
I’m not even sure whether you would call it just another AD or maybe a hidden message for doctors or traditional seasoned managers, whom I have correlated it after seeing this AD. The context of roles is different but the consciousness prescription is the same ‘Practice what you preach’ - ‘Walk when you talk’
So, would I like to be classified under ‘walk and talk’ or ‘talk and talk’?
I certainly do not want to die yet another ‘talk and talk’ - preach and preach supervisor under at any context.
I have realized this time in Germany that I do not want to be a great tester, best supervisor, best test analyst but I do wish eagerly to be a ‘team-defender’, so that I can preach the team members what I have learnt from my mistakes for several years being a tester and on the deeper domain.
I also do not want to create and possess the best method of personal growth and make my profile very impressive in LinkedIn - yet I do want to keep my passion for testing skills’ alive in my profile. I don’t want to be treated just another resource for billable, but more to do with how valued I will be for the team.
I don’t like to create a bit of suspicious of skip level meeting amongst the team members, but I would like to be fairly judged by the team in written and having no known name or identity of the team members.
I don’t want to prove myself as an accomplished supervisor by showing sizeable numbers of direct-reports under my belt, but I’ll like to be the single point of contact for my team’s fear. I don’t want to be called as excel expert manager, who worries for numbers or percentages of work done, but I’ll like to be part of a self-management team.
I don’t want to be a clever supervisor, but I would like to be a fair and clear ‘team-defender’.
Now, please don’t think of this as a highly intellectual statement, I belong to the same class of individuals classified as tester, test lead, or test manager and know the importance and having the knowledge of the test operation, test management and as well as the painstaking, backbreaking, mind numbing effort that goes into making those pretty-looking presentations in PPT and every minute updating the spreadsheets. However, it is like one of those moments when some severity 1 and priority 1 defects falls in place from production and creates a panic at all level of management and you have to celebrate it by announcing it to the management that ‘We have verified the defect on-time’ and my boss consciousness would have said “Hooo…the team has saved my butt, lucky by chance” and hence, here I’m a step closer to the blessed state of knowingly doing what I’m suppose to do along with my team members - ‘walk when you talk’
Well said by great Sir Ji, chief architect of India (CAI):
“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching“
You must be thinking, who the heck is great Sir Ji, CAI? Yes, you’re right!
About Author:
This is a guest article by “Kajal Das“.
Kajal Das is a tester, working for LHS Ericsson, Germany as senior test expert and having practical telecoms CRM domain testing knowledge. He act as a point of contact between various telecoms service provider customers in determining all aspect of CRM testing being done in a practical and useful way.
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Happy to Read. It is worth to read.
me too pleased with this read. nice inspiration
no matter you are at what stage of your career you should always be a good team defender.
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Hello Kaja Das
Your article is really good one. It has been put up in a very nice way….
The thoughtof being with your team is good.
I liked the way you have brought the Ad ‘Talk while you walk’ in your article. Content of the article is simple and understandble.
I am a Test Engg woking for Mobile Testing.
The thoughtof being with your team is good.
noce blog post
I really appreciate the thought process you have been through while writing this.
I would love to have you on my team to continuosly save my bu..
But mind you, as years progress you will move away from this role and things will change.
For now you are doing great.
Good work.
Good inspiration inputs for me
Thanks for writing this article for all testers.
-MS
Hi Das ,
It was really good to learn for new topics. And it is very helpful for us and juniors … And u really done a gr8 job.
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In this tough environment more and more companies are beginning to explore how “agile, with different flavors can help their companies deliver reliable application quickly and iteratively. The role of testing professionals increasingly important in the application of Agile Projects. Innovations are increasingly driven by the needs of society in general check. But the paper more difficult to change to agile development is the role of Tester. That is because the agile development contradicts plenty of things to plenty of testers have been taught is “best practice”.
As the global crisis hit hard, more and more worries about how it will impact in the field of information technology. The companies to be more cautious and sometimes reluctant to give application business. Some customers of the withdrawal of its long-term projects, while others use the possibilities of renegotiating the contracts and lower price quote. Recent scandals also add fuel to the fire, and consequently the levels of customer satisfaction and plenty of projects will fall over expected and cost over expected. And all this happens while the client wants to accomplish better business processes for application vendors to increase customer satisfaction and save more funds.
So what are the challenges faced by testers when working with agile development teams and how they can meet the challenges?
In an agile development environment can not expect things to happen. You must be proactive. This is true for all team members, but is true for Testers. Members of the quality control team can not let anything get in the way of proof. Failure to follow the requirements they require to speak with the owner of the product for clarification. If you are unsure of how developers are going to implement the new code, they require to discuss how the code will execute with the developer. Must be self-directed experts in removing obstacles that prevent them from testing.
Recently, shipping through Application Testing Help I found an interesting article:
Tips to be more innovative in the era of Agile Testing \., written by JB Rajkumar - experienced trainer, quality manager, a frequent speaker for colleges, universities and international conferences.
In his long face Agile Testers of the problems when working with agile development team. And they must be able to apply root cause analysis when you find serious errors so that probably won’t happen again. While Agile has different tastes, Scrum is a process for implementing Agile. A quantity of the rules scrum challenge to be followed by all individuals are:
- Get Number of hours of commitment Up Front
- Gather requirements / Estimates Up Front
- Introduction of the actual hours and estimated hours daily.
- Construction Daily
- Keep meetings short daily Scrum
- Code Inspections are critical
In order to meet the challenges, an agile testers require to be innovative with the tools they have. And here are some important keys to innovation:
- A lovely Agile Tester has to be creative in trying to cope up with the speed of development or release. For a tester, being creative is more important than being critical.
- Proof must be professional talent and strives more for learning and innovation of new ideas. Testers talent are seldom satisfied with what they have achieved and always strives to find errors unimaginable value and high priority.
- An Agile check should not be afraid to look at the code a developer and if necessary, and in extreme cases, to correct it.
- Must have a comprehensive view of customer expectations and delivering lovely product.
- Must be authorized to work in pairs. He will participate in pair programming so that the script shorter, better designs and finding more errors.
- Tester must be passionate and brings something distinctive that can be in terms of their innovative ideas or how to take the day to day.
Finally, Agile Tester must have multiple skills, and, Manual, functional performance tests of skills and soft skills such as leadership skills, communication skills etc, in this new world of professional testing focused on adding value to business and application development life cycle and act in a new and elevated position where the combination of structured-driven approach, creativity and ability to articulate and define quality criteria and testing new models will be critical for the success of the business application of technology.
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