Perspectives from a QA Mentor and Mentee: How Mentorship Can Help Your Testing Career

"When one person mentors, two lives are changed" - Kevin Sessums

This quote rings true for two QAs whose testing careers were positively impacted through mentorship. It is very important for QAs, especially juniors, to have proper mentorship and introduction to Software Testing as a practice. This helps with fostering the QA critical-thinking mindset and curiosity, networking and building connections with other roles in the project team, and other benefits which we will highlight in this talk.

Some might think that mentorship only improves the mentee, but in reality, it also impacts the personal development of the mentor. Some ways it can help a QA mentor is by building their interpersonal and leadership skills, providing an opportunity for them to learn new perspectives on testing, and offering a sense of fulfilment.

So in this two-speaker talk, we will share how mentorship helped us in our software testing professions, both as the mentor and as the mentee.