Small QA Team Survival Strategies
Are you and your team having trouble managing your workload? Is your Dev to QA ratio completely out of whack? Do you need help convincing management that one or two extra hands would make a difference? Amanda will draw from her experience on teams of various sizes to provide examples of how to organize the QA workload into manageable pieces without losing your sanity. She will also give advice on how to outsource to other non-QA team members that can assist with getting stories to done and avoid potential bottlenecks. We’ll also discuss ways to get developer assistance with unit and integration testing and leverage automation to reduce risk when QA cannot be everywhere at once. Attendees should also be able to walk away with talking points to take to senior management to make the case that quality should be the responsibility of the entire team and to potentially hire more QA engineers.
Amanda Ellison has more than a decade of software quality experience. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in psychology and sociology, a Master's Degree in experimental psychology, and a second Bachelor's Degree in game design. Her software career started as a manual tester at an IT consulting company and she quickly fell in love with automation and devops. She is now the QA Manager at Auction Edge in Nashville, TN where she manages a small QA team of her own. She is happiest when she is impacting change in those around her and she sees her direct reports growing into awesome QA engineers.