SmartQA Community
Elevate QA, Enhance value, Enrich Community
Software development evolved with potent technologies for complex applications. However, QA lags, clinging to outdated practices. QA must modernize, leveraging human-machine intelligence to elevate testing and assurance, achieving more with less.
Objectives of SmartQA Community
To elevate thinking, amplify business value, and enrich the QA community,to shaping a smarter, more forward-looking future for assurance.
INDIVIDUAL
ELEVATE QA
- Richer & diverse thinking perspectives
- Test deeper & deliver higher value
- Enhance career multidimensionally
ORGANISATION
ENHANCE QA BUSINESS VALUE
- Reduce tech debt
- Un-throttle capacity
- Contribute to product
COMMUNITY
ENRICH QA COMMUNITY
- Leverage other's work
Approach
The approach is simple yet powerful. Take up initiatives with tangible outcomes. Share your experiences and insights, publish your work, and inspire others through your journey.
- NEAR TERM take up initiatives that can be done in a quarter
- VALUE OUTCOMES do diligently, focus on value to individual, org/community
- CLOSE THE LOOP showcase outcomes - publish/share
- INSPIRE & TRANSFORM be a change maker, influencer
- LEVERAGE build test assets that enable community go higher/faster/better
- PAY-IT-FORWARD that those coached now coach others tomorrow
HOTS Coaching
Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) for SmartQA is an intensely engaging and deep 16-week coaching program that elevates thinking and enrich the business value delivered to the organisation. This is a non-commercial offered pro-bono higher. It is expected that the
Outcomes
What’s in it for you? You’ll grow both personally and professionally, leveraging the work and assets of the vibrant QA community. Become an influencer, a change maker, and coach others to build a smarter community together..
SmartQA Community Resources
doSmartQA-The HyBIST Approach
THIRTEEN suggestions addressing SIX key QA challenges that engineering managers grapple with.
HyBIST at a glance
A quick tour into the methodology that powers SmartQA. Outlines intellectual practice of probing via hypothesis based core method to analyse & design, and do immersively in sessions to test deeply & rapidly.
50 Tips for SmartQA
An interesting collection of FIFTY tips that spans across many dimensions to enable one to become “Smart Tester”.
High Performance QA
TWELVE interesting and counter intuitive perspectives to High Performance QA, organised into FOUR themes of language, thinking, structure & doing
Communicate clearly
Strip the jargons. Go deeper to grow. Become intellectually superior. Stand out of the pack. Unlearn to sharpen.
on Smart Assurance
This unveils a transformative approach to QA blending creativity, minimalism & technical brilliance with practical insights and actionable tips.
on Personal Growth
This highlights growth as internal evolution and influence, emphasises shifting from efficiency to creativity, offers reinvention tips & shares leadership insights through analogies.
on Test Design
This delves into the mindset essential for designing testable software, shares actionable design practices for robustness & efficiency offering practical tips with heuristics.
on Smart Understanding
It explores enhancing understanding by blending a broad, systemic view with a focused, detail-oriented approach, grounded in mindfulness and analysis.
on Mindset & Habits
This outlines the role of mindset & habits to clean coding, efficient testing and flow state for peak performance and suggests specific habits & mindset for QA/Dev.
on Problem Solving
“Solving problems is about finding clarity in chaos”. This distills essence of effective problem-solving into simple, actionable ideas.