As the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact our daily lives, we are making our 2022 KWality Talks available online for free.
Register: Online Using Eventbrite, Zoom link will be included in registration confirmation email
Location: Online
Time: Stream will start at approximately 11:55 am. Meeting starts at 12:00 pm. Meeting ends at approximately 1:00 pm.
Speaker: Josh Assad
Topic:
One of the biggest questions in anyone’s career is how it will progress. There are generally two natural courses most professions will grow into; Technical mastery or people management (sometimes both, along a spectrum, but that is a topic for another day). For testers, the path to people management is a little less clear than it was in the pre-Agile days of testing departments and QA Managers. However there is still a very strong case for growing testers into Engineering Managers, Directors and beyond.
In this talk I will share my journey from Tester to Engineering Manager, and highlight the skills you use as a tester today that managers leverage every day too. If you’ve ever wondered if people management was a destination on your career journey, this talk is for you!
Bio:
Josh Assad has been working in the software industry for over 20 years across many domains such as physical and cyber security, mobile technology, e-learning, and dev-ops/infrastructure. A tester first, Josh has always been passionate about quality, which has extended from products to processes & people. He has naturally taken to people-leadership roles where he strives to create cultures of innovation, safety and trust to empower those around him to do their best work.