Duration: 1 Day
Course Overview
The migration from traditional QA employee role to test automation engineer, possibly embedded in an agile development team can be a stressful experience for the average tester. There is much to learn with no confidence in the tester’s mind that they can make it. The job role is radically different because of the need to be able to code. New working relationships together with moving from a project management led structure to a self-motivated cross-functional team model can also leave the tester bewildered and lost in a new world.
This one day specialist module is aimed at senior and middle QA managers and team leads to help them to achieve this transformational change while taking their team members on the journey with them without fear. It then looks at strategies for managing the test experts within their respective agile teams.
The module is presented in the form of taught material, small group discussions, and role-playing scenarios.
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Course Content
Introduction
• Comparing classical and agile test management approaches
• Migrating teams to test automation and test-driven development
• New team structures
• Managing teams in an agile world
• Continuous improvement
Transforming test teams to automation
• Understanding the nature of culture change
• Addressing the fear of change
• Training approaches and post-transformation support/mentoring
• The typical agile tester organisation chart and RACI model
• The day-to-day role of the agile test automation engineer
Managing and measuring test teams
• Management structures
• Testers out in the development teams
• Reporting models: Scrum master, versus chapter or guild lead
• Metrics used for driving good agile and automation behaviours
Continuous improvement
• Agile and DevOps as learning cultures
• Providing space for learning
• Recognising the learning benefit of failures
• Models to encourage and measure continuous improvement of the individual