Richard is joined by Gabbi Trotter a Digital Recruiter and team lead for a recruiters who specialise in the Software testing recruitment space. The two discuss the role of automation from a recruiters perspective, offering an insight into market trends and what companies are looking for in automators.

Richard is joined by Daniel Erasmus a Senior QA Recruitment Consultant who specialises in the Software testing recruitment space. The two discuss the role of automation from a recruiters perspective, offering an insight into market trends and what companies are looking for in automators.

Richard is joined by Erin Donnelly a Senior Recruitment Consultant who specialises in the Software testing recruitment space. The two discuss the role of automation from a recruiters perspective, offering an insight into market trends and what companies are looking for in automators.

In an episode delayed by a horrible cold which Neil is audibly still not over, we bring two-thirds of the Tech Team Weekly podcast together as Gwen Diagram arrives for a long overdue (and colourful) testing discussion.

We talk about Gwen’s career and tech passions which have burned from a young age, her path from Australia into the UK, and the chance events which led her into IT, into testing, and subsequently into test management and engineering management. We talk about the challenges of big career jumps, speaking at conferences/online, speaking truth to executives, and representing the rights of the humans in our teams, in a session which was 100% not designed to be cathartic for Neil. Honest.

Among Gwen’s raucous musical selections, there’s punk, garage rock, songs which cause us to bemoan the passage of time, and the shortest song that’s ever appeared on the podcast (played in its entirety). Plus, Gwen’s Leeds musical roots give Neil the perfect opportunity to finally wax lyrical about his favourite band that nobody’s heard of.

Podcast Links:

Leeds Testing Atelier

Tech Team Weekly podcast

The Jesus and Mary Chain

YouTube: The Music - Jag Tune (Live at Big Day Out, 2003)

YouTube: (EXTREME STROBE WARNING) The Music’s farewell gig in Leeds, 2011

The Simpsons: Wang Computers

StepChange

Sky - Technology Careers

TestBash Manchester 2016: Gwen Diagram - Is Test Causing Your Live Problems?

Twitter: Stephen Mounsey

Wharf Chambers, Leeds

Leeds Testing Atelier 2017: Jurassic Park panel discussion

YouTube video for Gwen’s second song selection (as it’s not on Spotify)

Neil’s talk “How Testers Can Shape the Next Normal”

TestBashX Edinburgh (28 April 2022)

Richard Bradshaw - The Future of TestBash

LinkedIn: Ministry of Testing Returns to Profit (and What it Means)

Monzo

Guide Dogs UK

LinkedIn flashback photo to 2012 on the London Underground

Meri Williams on the Humans+Tech Podcast

LeadDev Conferences

Glean Careers

LeadDev Berlin 2019: Kevin Goldsmith - How does salary work?

YouTube: Trailer for Filmage - The Story of Descendents

The Phoenix Project

Gwen’s website: Diagram Industries

Gwen on Twitter: @gwendiagram

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Kristof talks to Cristiano Cunha, the solution architect from Xray about his background, how he got into testing and his job at Xray. Touching almost all parts of IT during his career, he's giving you solid advice on what he would tell himself in the past if he could go back.

Cristiano's Twitter: https://twitter.com/Melioth

Kristof talks to Darrel Farris about the shift to quality engineering and how testing teams are adapting

Kicking off our new podcast series, Kristof is joined by Heather Vercillo at TestRail where they discuss TestRail's 2021 annual survey and the future of testing.

Welcome to episode 9 of TestSphere Roulette. Joining Simon at the roulette table are 2 more testing superstars:

Beth Marshall (@Beth_AskHer) - Senior Quality Engineer @ Ada Health

Mark Winteringham - (@2bittester) - OpsBoss @ Ministry of Testing

The wheel threw out some really interesting topics for conversation:

Anger  - Feelings

Ikea-Effect - Patterns

Risk Analysis - Techniques

Beth can be contacted on the following sites: 

 twitter - @Beth_AskHer

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/beth-marshall/ 

Before joining Ada Health, Beth did some work as a QA Relations at Mailinator, check out her blogs here: https://www.mailinator.com/site/home-application-minimal/mailinator-blog/

Mark can be contacted here:

Twitter - @2bittester

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markwinteringham/

Incase you didn’t hear it on the episode, Mark is writing a book. If you’re wanting to learn about Web APIs, this is definitely worth a read - https://www.manning.com/books/testing-web-apis

We also mentioned the very exciting announcement that Testbash X will be coming to Buckinghamshire later in the year. Check out all details here:  https://www.ministryoftesting.com/events/testbashx-buckinghamshire-2022 

Thank you to Beth and Mark for their great discussions and to the Ministry of Testing for supporting the podcast

If you wish to find out more about TestSphere, check out RiskstormingOnline.com or find the card decks on the MoT Store

Follow the pod at @TestSpherePod on twitter

If you wish to be a guest on a future episode, fill the following form out:

https://ministryoftesting.typeform.com/to/UtrLTbdc

Sounds and Music courtesy of Zapsplat.com

Thank you for listening and we look forward to seeing you at the roulette table again soon

We’re trying something a little bit different this month, as Contract Testing aficionado Lewis Prescott joins us to talk about the joy (and challenges) of using Pact to support the development of multiple connected services without introducing breaking changes.

It’s a technical topic which is tough to cover optimally in audio format, but there’s something here for everybody: those who are already familiar with Pact will find some practical tips and when and how you should (and shouldn’t) use it, whereas newcomers will find a good grounding in the general lingo, and some recommendations for where to look in order to get hands-on experience.

Lewis also manages the rare feat of selecting songs by five artists who’ve not appeared on the podcast before, as we welcome some modern classics into the island vaults, from the world of pop, R&B, hip-hop and rap.

Podcast Links:

Cera Care

TestSphere Roulette Episode (with Lewis Prescott & Karo Stoltzenburg)

TestSphere Roulette Episode (with Neil Studd & Dan Billing)

Ministry of Testing workshop: Introduction to Contract Testing with Pact

Pact documentation (including 5-minute Getting Started guide)

Swagger

Vulture: Jim Carrey not only steals but IS the show on The Weeknd’s “Dawn FM”

Pactflow Blog: Proving E2E tests are a Scam

Officelovin’: Asos office tour

Pact terminology

Pactflow

Ministry of Testing: Consumer Driven Contract Testing - Raquel Bautista-Garrido

Test Automation University: Contract Tests with Pact - Rafaela Azevedo

Lewis’s GitHub profile

TestBashX Brighton

Lewis’s website: Pactman Consulting

Lewis on Twitter: @WuigPrescott

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A new year means a new start for many people, and that’s definitely the case in this episode, where both host and guest have just started new roles as Head of QA. This month, Neil interviews Simon Rigler, which is another way of saying that Neil wants to ask Simon all of the most difficult questions that are keeping your host awake at night.

It’s a veritable Greatest Hits of test leadership discussions, as they discuss what draws people into (and out of) the world of testing, the importance of collaborating between disciplines and breaking down walls, remote collaboration challenges, and how to handle the situation where managers are fixated solely on automation.

We’ve got diversions aplenty, including discussions about globetrotting, lockdown life on the coast, timezone headaches, and how to avoid being the testing equivalent of the Grim Reaper.

On the music front, there are electronic and instrumental offerings, some Antipodean friends, a band marking their fifth appearance on the podcast, and Simon picks a track from one of the defining albums of 1999 which sends Neil off down memory lane.

Podcast Links:

IQVIA

Neil’s attempt to record an episode with tonsillitis

YouTube: Jack Peñate - Second, Minute or Hour

Elucidat

Ministry of Testing: Test.Bash() 2021: 99-Second Talks

YouTube: Mary and Max trailer

YouTube: Live video of Simon’s fourth selection

Peter James

Simon on Twitter: @The_Rigler

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