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Callum Akehurst-Ryan
Staff Quality Engineer
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Hi I'm Callum, a software tester and quality coach in London. I talk about exploratory testing, test strategy, diversity & inclusion and building testing in agile teams / startups.
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Chaos Engineering
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My Week In Testing — In community we practice
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I'm listening to TWiT live and it's reminded me to post a memory about my week in testing (MWiT)
1️⃣ I'll start with something Judy said on TWiT about how community is a great place to practice....
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Definitions of Chaos Engineering
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Definitions of Chaos Engineering
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The Staff Quality Engineer role
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Cosmic conversation: the possibilities of Quality Coaching
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LGBTQIA+ Pride Month — Visibility matters: You are not alone
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99 Second Talks - TestBash UK 2022 Day 1
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99 Second Talks - TestBash Careers 2022
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The Awesome Power Of Hosting Test.bash(); 2021
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The Awesome Power Of The Debrief: Why Debriefing Is The Key To Successful Exploratory Testing
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Testing Progressive Web Apps (or How to Achieve App-iness) - Elizabeth Fiennes and Callum Akehurst-Ryan
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Thanks for your positive words in the Slack about the Leadership projects MoT is working on.
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Software testing
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63% of you were not aware of the existence of the Staff Quality Engineer role
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Join Kat and Callum to discover what's working, examples and traps in QC
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So where do we start as testers moving into this quality engineering space? By bookending development (coding) and being a part of the start and finish of things.
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Working as a quality coach or a senior tester is an interesting role, the role may not come with in built authority and so you live and die by the influence you cultivate.
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When I’m coaching teams, I usually let them know that we should have an opinion of what we’re aiming for in terms of depth from the start.
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Definitions of Test design
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