Talk Description
The skills necessary to be an effective test manager are not the same as those needed to be an effective tester. Supervising and coordinating testers and testing requires learning new testing skills, along with the significant growth necessary to be worthy of the responsibility to manage others.
How do you get ready to be a Test Manager? How do you identify and nurture a future Test Manager? What are the skills and traits you could look for? What red flags might you be watching for? How will you prepare them for management, and help them succeed when they get there? What should a line manager work on to prepare for the next level?
Takeaways:
In this talk, I will pose some of these questions and offer some ideas, propose a body of skills needed for test managers in many contexts, and share experiences in mentoring current and future leaders. Hopefully, this will be useful for aspiring Test Managers, current Test Managers, and the leaders trying to grow them.
Eric Proegler is a Staff Test Instructure Engineer for Credit Karma in Oakland, California. Previously, he’s been a Senior Director of Quality Engineering, a performance testing consulting practice lead, a Testing Tools Product Manager, and the President of the Association for Software Testing.
At work, Eric is hacking processes, writing documentation, asking questions, and generally splitting the difference between Solver and Right Hand StaffEng Archetypes. He’s presented and/or facilitated at CAST, TestBash, Agile, PNSQC, CMG Impact, STARWEST, Jenkins World, Oredev, Nordic Testing Days, Romanian Testing Conference, Yerevan Testing Days, CodeFest, STPCon, WOPR, and STiFS.
In his free time, Eric spends time with family, runs a science fiction book club, and is looking forward to resuming a busy schedule of live literary events, music, and stand-up comedy. He also seeks out street food from all over, plays video games, collects Lego sets, and follows the NBA.
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