January 25th, Mike Kaufman Presents The Red Bead Experiment

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Josh Assad

Come on out to UW DC1302 on January 25th at 11:30am to see Mike Kaufman Present the Red Bead Experiment: The White Bead Corporation is looking for Above Average Employees for expanded production. On the job training provided. Earn bonuses! The White Bead Corporation is a proud producer of shiny, perfect, white beads. We work hard to meet our customer’s exacting demands and won’t settle for anything less than perfection. We need Willing Workers who are Above Average Employees to handle this...

November 23rd KWality talk with Jason Little

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Josh Assad

Come on out to see Jason Little: The Structure of Your Organization Limits Your Level of Quality "How to we make testing more agile?" Have you heard people say this? I sure have. It's not a shock to say that most organizations still use a manufacturing metaphor when it comes to software quality. That is, let's make testing more agile in order to inspect quality in during our agile testing phase. Most organizations I've worked with focus on making their existing structures more agile instea...

May KWSQA Meeting – May 18, Alan Page

TOPIC: Testing with no Testers: How Testing has changed at Microsoft PRESENTED BY: Alan Page SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Alan Page has been building and testing software for nearly 25 years. He was the lead author on the book How We Test Software at Microsoft, contributed chapters for Beautiful Testing and Experiences of Test Automation: Case Studies of Software Test Automation, and recently published a collection of essays on test automation in The A Word. He also writes about a variety of softwar...

April KWSQA Meeting – Apr 27, Ken De Souza

TOPIC: the bare minimum you need to know about web application security in 2016 PRESENTED BY: Ken De Souza SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Ken De Souza has been in software development for over 15 years, starting as a developer bent on automatically checking everything he built. He is a security enthusiast, currently specializing in exploratory testing and building automated checks, with a passion for delivering high quality software at a rapid pace. He has recently spoken at QA or the Highway 2015, CAST...

March KWSQA Meeting: Featuring Selena Delesie

TOPIC: Lessons Learned in Leadership PRESENTED BY: Selena Delesie SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Selena is an international speaker, coach and trainer who inspires people to get lit up from within, radiate positive energy and empower everyone around them to step into their greatness. As a successful corporate manager, consultant and coach, she brings many years of experience across the technology, financial, Agile, software development and testing sectors. She bridges this experience with ...

February KWSQA Meeting – Feb 24, Andre Cloutier

TOPIC: 13 Naïve Questions about Test Process Deconstruction and Other Paranormal Activities PRESENTED BY: André Cloutier, PSM, SAFe (SA) SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: When he was 7 years old, André’s teacher heard him bragging about his encyclopedic knowledge in geography. The teacher decided to exploratorily test his competencies by asking him about capitals of the world (Nepal, Argentina and other places with mountains). He obviously knew all the answers because he was a curious kid. Th...

Join us at our January 27 member meeting for a Lean Coffee* session

Posted on January 12, 2016January 20, 2016 by Jared Small

TOPIC: KWSQA presents: Lean Coffee PRESENTED BY: The KWSQA MEETING OVERVIEW: Lean Coffee* is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. Meeting format: You and your peers will start a Personal Kanban Add ideas on what to discuss Vote and talk *Lean Coffee(tm) is a trademark of Modus Cooperandi. For more info visit lea...

January KWSQA Meeting: Lean Coffee

Lean Coffee is a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking. Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. *Lean Coffee(tm) is a trademark of Modus Cooperandi. For more info, visit leancoffee.org.

Join us at our next member meeting for Pete Walen speaking on “Test Strategies, Test Plans and Strategic Testing”

Posted on November 19, 2015November 19, 2015 by Jared Small

TOPIC: Test Strategies, Test Plans and Strategic Testing PRESENTED BY: Pete Whalen SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Pete Walen has been in some form of software development for over 25 years. He has been a developer, a business analyst, a project manager and now a tester and testing specialist. He describes himself as a Software Anthropologist and Tester, which encompasses the examination of how software and people relate, react and interact with each other. Pete has worked in a variety of ...

Join us at our October meeting to hear Andrew Annett speak on “Planning Delivery Like You Mean It”

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Rob Bowyer

TOPIC: The theme song of adaptive development teams isn't "Qué Será, Será" - planning delivery like you mean it. PRESENTED BY: Andrew Annett SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY: Andrew Annett is a seasoned facilitator and coach who believes conversations are the operating system of organizations and anything that promotes flow of quality work is a good thing. Andrew has experience working within agile teams and on large, complex multi-year programs and his passion is for helping the world communicate ...