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I'm Jared Quinert, a testing consultant located in Melbourne, Australia. With over fifteen years of experience, I specialise in agile testing, context-driven testing and intelligent toolsmithing with a focus on business outcomes over process. As one of the most experienced agile testers in Australia, I've been diving in hands-on since 2003 to discover how to build successful whole-team approaches to software development.
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- xflibble: @testobsessed That's what I think leads to the cycle. Hire people for programming skills, find out they can't test, change strategy.
- xflibble: @testobsessed My anecdote - I applied for the same job three times. Eventually they had figured out they primarily needed testing skill.
- xflibble: @testobsessed I wonder about other variables. Eg. a lot more smaller companies are hiring locally now and they often hire differently.
- xflibble: @testobsessed For now :) I remember a cycle of 'must have automation' jobs in the past too. Now I'm curious to compare local job ads.
- xflibble: One could say I wasn't a beginning experimenter/thinker when I first tested but I learned that without steps too, philosophising with my dad
- xflibble: "Beginners need steps" as an absolute sucks. I learned to test by having goals, doing, watching others, getting feedback, reflecting.
- xflibble: @testobsessed Do you think we can know that it's absolutely essential to doing the job, or that they're wishing that person is out there?
- xflibble: @testobsessed Am curious...How are they describing the requirement for programming skill?
- xflibble: @testobsessed I mean *often* hard to tell :)
- xflibble: @testobsessed Do they require programming skills or desire them? Always hard to tell from the job ad...
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