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Suman Bala
Quality Engineering Manager
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Suman Bala is a Test Architect with a passion for improvement in quality processes and is a strong believer in Test Automation. She feels proud of how people’s perspective has changed regarding testing throughout her career. She is striving to instil the idea that quality is everyone’s responsibility as opposed to merely laying it at the feet of QA. She is a co-organiser for the Ministry of Testing Bucks meet-up. She is a mentor and coach at work and within the wider testing community. She is co-designing and delivering the “Software Testing Bootcamp” sponsored by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
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Testing Ask Me Anything - UI Automation: Pros & Cons image
Identify the Pros & Cons of UI Automation from the UI Automation Week 2021 with Suman Bala
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Landing a Job on The New Island - Suman Bala image
In this talk, Suman shares her experiences in job hunting when she moved to the UK in 2014 and the tips on how to land a job on a new island.
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Expert Advice to Make You 'APPY
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Bing! Goes a Brain Wave (Heuristics and Mnemonics for Mobile Apps) image
Suman shares heuristics that can aid you with your mobile testing
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Introduction to Contract Testing with Pact image
Learn how to get started with Contract testing and Pact
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Automation In Testing: Designing Automated Checks image
Learn the different building blocks to consider when designing an automated check
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Code Reviews for Testers image
Learn the power of code reviews and how they can help you with your testing
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Identifying Opportunities For Automation Checking image
Learn how to break up flows through our systems to help us identify what automated checks to build on what layer
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Essentials: An Introduction To Note Taking image
Learn how note taking is an essential skill for capturing and communicating your testing
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Essentials: Learning How To Test Requirements image
Learn how as testers we can test beyond the product and test requirements and ideas
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Automation in Testing: Starting An Automated Testing Strategy image
Learn about the characteristics that make a valuable automation strategy
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Essentials: Coming Up With Ideas For Testing image
How, as a tester, do you come up with different ideas and questions to probe and explore ideas and products? In this workshop we'll explore the testers mindset and how to come up with test ideas
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How to Build a Culture of Quality image
If your team is navigating cultural change or is adopting processes like DevOps, this workshop will help you develop the steps to build a culture of quality on your team
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Essentials: An introduction to Risks image
Testers deal with risk every day, whether it's identifying Risks, mitigating them or testing to uncover new ones. That's why in this workshop we'll learn what risk is and how to discover them
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Creating Test Strategies Teams Will Read image
Understand what type of strategy style is best for a project and get your team involved
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Automation In Testing: Rapidly Learning About Systems image
How can you automate a product if you don't know how it works? In this workshop we explore how to capture and share technical knowledge of a system for an automation strategy
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Beyond The UI - Introduction To HTTP Proxying image
I will guide you through using an HTTP proxy to test scenarios you wouldn't be able to test just through the UI. I will show you that tinkering with APIs is actually easy and fun
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Automation In Testing: Automatability image
The success of automation is directly related to how automatable a product is. In this workshops we'll learn what automatability is, how to analyse it and use that knowledge in our strategies
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Automation In Testing: Testability image
Testability is the foundation of a good automation strategy, which means understanding what Testability is and how to analyse it in a given context
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Discussion: Test Leadership/Management image
Our Panel Discussions allow you to get direct support from our community gurus, so join and get your Test Leadership questions ready!
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Testing Ask Me Anything - Test Leadership with Butch Mayhew image
Butch has been leading teams over the past 6 years in several different contexts, take this opportunity to ask questions, and learn what it takes to be a successful leader
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Approval Testing image
Learn how approval testing can be more effective than traditional assertion-based test automation
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An Introduction to SQL for Testers image
A guide through the fundamentals of understanding and writing SQL
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Visual Facilitation and Sketchnoting image
Have you have felt the need to share everything you’ve learnt with your colleagues and don't know ho to? Louise Gibbs will show how she does it with this 99-minute workshop
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Become a 99 Minute Workshop Instructor image
Join us to prepare and deliver a 99 Minute workshop whilst learning the secrets to delivering a successful online workshop
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TestBash Home 2021 image
Join us this year for our worldwide 24 hours online TestBash software testing conference
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Git Foundations image
Always wondered how the version control system Git works? Simon has all the answers
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Team Care: Making Mental Health an Agile Practice image
One way to help our teams and peers avoid falling into the trap of burnout is to start making good mental health habits a part of everyday practices.
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Introduction to Creating Test Strategies image
During this workshop, we will look at factors that influence your test strategy. We will look at rapid modelling and using heuristics that enable us to think fast
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How to Build a Culture of Quality image
If your team is navigating cultural change or is adopting processes like DevOps, this workshop will help you develop the steps to build a culture of quality on your team
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Exploratory Testing Week image
Join us for an exciting week of Exploratory Testing learning and hands-on activities!
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