Quality Sense Podcast

In this episode I had a conversation with Erika Chestnut, Head of QA at Calendly. She started her career as a developer, but after complaining about quality a few times too many, she found herself learning more about software testing. Today she is a Quality Coach, mentor, consultant, and a keynote speaker. Listen to the episode to learn about how test automation plays a role in Calendly’s test str...

Are you looking for a new job or want to become a more hirable tester? Today I invited my first guest from the team at Abstracta, Stephanie Gordiola. You may recognize her on LinkedIn as the one who spreads the word of new opportunities to work at Abstracta! "Steph" is a psychologist and English teacher who has been on our team for two years, recruiting, interviewing, and helping to hire software...

Have you thought about making the switch to a commercial test automation framework? In this episode of Quality Sense, Katya Aronov shares how she managed to lead an organizational effort at her company, Trax, to involve devs in their quality processes, using Testim to create useful, stable, and reliable test automation. Episode Highlights: - What is needed to create useful automation that benefits...

Season three is here and we start it off with a brand new topic and featured guest, a rising speaker and blogger in the testing community, Laveena Ramchandani. Seven years ago she fell into testing, working in different industries from oil and gas to finance to consumer goods. Today she is exploring a new area: data science model testing. Currently, 80% of UK businesses are looking to hire a data...

Today, I want to do something different. I gave a talk at this year's Agile Testing Days called “How to Keep Testers Motivated.” This is a very important topic for me because I manage the operations of a company with more than 100 testers. So, the high motivation of those working with us is a key factor for success. Success for the company, for the different teams and success for the people workin...

In today's episode, I interviewed Anand Bagmar from India. He has more than 20 years of experience in the software industry and today he's a Quality Evangelist and Solution Architect at Applitools. In this episode, we will learn more about visual testing and how it can enhance your test automation. Of course, we talked about Applitools, which is one of the best tools for this kind of testing. If y...

Today I will share with you a conversation with Andreas Grabner, or Andi as we all know him. From Austria, he has more than 20 years of experience in the field, always sharing his knowledge about performance engineering, especially through his podcast called Pure Performance. He is a frequent speaker at technology conferences, I think I’ve met him in every conference related to performance, in dif...

Today, I'll share a conversation with Ian Goddard from the UK. He is a very experienced tester and public speaker. He’s been working in software testing and automation with products related to broadcasting, video streaming and most recently, in virtual reality, using your mobile phone or specific devices such as special lenses. We discussed the challenges of testing this type of software which for...

In today’s episode, I’ll be interviewing Bas Dijkstra, from the Netherlands. He’s an expert on test automation, offering training and consultancy therein. I’ve seen Bas trigger some very interesting conversations on Linkedin so I wanted to discuss them with him on the show. Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about how to deal with false positives and negatives in test automation and...

In this Quality Sense episode, I had a chat with Júlio de Lima, an engineer at Capco, who recently completed his master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computing (Artificial Intelligence) and also co-founded GaroaQA, a meetup group with four locations across Brazil and over 2,000 members. Episode Highlights - The complexity of analyzing the huge amounts of data that software performance tes...

Today, I’m going to share with all of you my conversation with Elisabeth Hocke, mostly known as Lisi Hocke. She’s a very recognized tester in the agile testing community, she won the award for “Most Influential Agile Testing Professional” in 2019. Also, you may know her for her approach to personal challenges, which will be our main topic of conversation today. We also discussed her recent article...

Today, I'll interview Mike Lyles. Even though we've been in contact for so many years, this was the first time we got the chance to finally speak. Mike is a director of QA and Project Management with over 25 years of IT experience. He has recently published a book called The Drive-Thru Is Not Always Faster, where you can learn a lot about leadership, and actually this is the main topic that we wil...

Quality Sense is back for season 2! Did you miss us? In this episode, I invited Fernanda Sesto, an entrepreneur, Rochester University student, and former Abstracta tester, to share a bit of what it was like for her to start working in testing at the ripe old age of 18! Episode highlights: - What she wished she knew when getting started in software testing - What its like to work from Latin America...

One of the most beautiful lessons I’ve learned over the last few months? Podcasting is so much fun! Especially, when friends and colleagues (who happen to be people you admire) say yes to come on and share about what they know, about their experience, about what they are learning or even what they are struggling with. In this Quality Sense episode, I want to give a short summary of what I’ve learn...

In this episode I interviewed my Latin American brother, Leandro Melendez, from Mexico, also known as "Señor Performo." He's an expert on performance testing with almost 20 years of experience in the software industry. He frequently speaks at testing conferences and shares content about performance in his youtube channels and podcasts in English and Spanish. For example, he is one of the hosts of...

In this episode I interviewed Michael Bolton, one of my personal heroes in testing, someone who makes you think outside the box, and is known for stirring up great debate! In this long interview, I just asked a couple of simple questions and Michael shared with us lot of insights about software testing, automation, algorithms, AI, etc, and most importantly, about how he entered a career in softwar...

For this episode, I interviewed my friend, Sofia Palamarchuk, CEO and co-founder of Apptim, a tool that helps you to test and analyze mobile app performance(www.apptim.com). She is also a Director and Board member of my company, Abstracta (www.abstracta.us). Highlights of this interview: - Sofi told us about her journey from tester to CEO, Board Member and co-founder - We discussed what affects th...

For this episode, I interviewed Oren Rubin, the CEO and founder of Testim (https://www.testim.io/, a leading innovative product in the Web test automation domain. He has over 20 years of experience in the Software Industry building products for developers. Highlights of this second part of the interview: - We discussed about how AI can help test automation - Best practices applied to test automati...

For this episode, I interviewed Oren Rubin, the CEO and founder of Testim (https://www.testim.io/, a leading innovative product in the Web test automation domain. He has over 20 years of experience in the Software Industry building products for developers. Highlights of this first part of the interview: - We shared the funny story of how we met (thanks Angie Jones!) - We discuss the pesky challeng...

In this episode I interviewed Lisa Crispin, one of "las madres del agile testing", an expert and great contributor to our field. You can learn more about her here: https://agiletestingfellow.com/. You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/30ZPHmA Highlights: - We discussed what this new term "Observability" is and how it's related to monitoring, testing and ev...

In this episode I interviewed Eric Proegler, an expert in performance testing and test management as well as the president of the Association for Software Testing(https://www.associationforsoftwaretesting.org/). You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/2YeEgG6 Highlights: - How certain industry's systems are tested like contact tracing apps for COVID-19 or ai...

In this episode I interviewed Alon Girmonsky, CEO of UP9 (https://up9.io), the only automated solution to test microservices. He also founded BlazeMeter among other technology-based companies. Nowadays we are collaborating together on the mobile testing platform, Apptim (https://apptim.com), where he is the main advisor. In this episode, we discussed the challenges in testing systems with microser...

This is the second part of my interview with Alan Richardson, better known as "Evil Tester." We discussed many topics related to software testing automation. You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: https://bit.ly/2YPSr3r In this second half of the interview we covered: - Testability, automatability and observability - How to show ROI of automation, learning about selling -...

This is the first part of my interview with Alan Richardson, better known as "evil tester." We discussed many topics related to software testing automation. You can also play the episode and read the full transcript here: bit.ly/2YPSr3r In this first half of the interview we covered: - Learning test automation by automating games - Ways to improve your test automation, like using JavaScript and mo...

Interview with Paul-Henri Pillet, CEO of Gatling (gatling.io), one of the leading performance testing tools for web applications. First we discussed challenges for performance testers in times of crisis and then, Paul-Henri told us about the the story behind Gatling. He also shared some habits and a book that I think can help you to become a better leader in software testing. You can play and also...