Personal Development Featured Whenever you feel stuck, ask yourself these 17 questions Coaching has become a widely used term in recent times. However, when effective coaching is utilized, it can significantly expand your perspectives. If you can't afford a coach to help you generate ideas and solutions to a problem or challenge, you can learn to ask yourself the right questions. This
Leadership Featured Are you a junior manager? Here's my cheat sheet to help you navigate the role's challenges Moving from being an individual contributor to a management role can feel like a giant leap. It's like realizing you need a whole new set of skills, and balancing your technical and managerial duties adds even more complexity. When I stepped from a software tester to a management position, I
Monthly Dose of Testing Land The Monthly Dose of Testing Land - June 2024 💡Subscribe to my Monthly Dose of Testing Land ⬇️️ Here is your Monthly Dose of Testing Land, a list of what I'm exploring, mulling, and experiencing each month. Twitter content I loved reading Life is too short not to feel joy. Find joy every day. This post is an excellent reminder
Software Testing Featured Types of Conflicts Between QAs and Other Departments and How To Overcome Them Conflicts between QA individuals and other departments like development, business analysis, and product management can arise for various reasons, including lack of transparency, communication breakdowns, conflicting priorities, and personality clashes. However, if addressed appropriately, conflict can be beneficial, allowing individuals to grow and learn from it. I've worked in various
Featured The Monthly Dose of Testing Land - April 2024 💡Subscribe to my Monthly Dose of Testing Land ⬇️️ Here is your Monthly Dose of Testing Land, a list of what I'm exploring, mulling, and experiencing each month. System Design news I digest How Uber Computes ETA at Half a Million Requests per Second. If you're a tech enthusiast and love
Software Testing Featured Types of Conflicts Between QA Team Members and How To Overcome Them Conflicts within QA teams can arise for various reasons, including differences in perspectives, communication breakdowns, conflicting priorities, and personality clashes. However, conflict can be beneficial if addressed appropriately, allowing individuals to grow and learn from it. I've worked in various roles, such as QA Engineer, QA Lead, and Test Manager,
Monthly Dose of Testing Land Featured The Monthly Dose of Testing Land - March 2024 💡Subscribe to my Monthly Dose of Testing Land ⬇️️ Here is your Monthly Dose of Testing Land, a list of what I’m exploring, mulling, and experiencing each month. Book I'm reading The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. is an insightful book that provides
Leadership Featured 6 Parenting Mistakes You Should Not Replicate As a Manager🎯 "As a mother, I am a self-professed ninja when it comes to safeguarding my little one. I have a hawk's eye on her whereabouts and who she spends time with. I am like a CIA agent when it comes to her food intake, because let's be real, there are just
Lifestyle Featured Tenerife With a Toddler After ten days of indulging in sangria, I am now back home and pouring myself a cup of warm mint tea as the weather is cold and rainy. And as my memories from our vacation in Tenerife are still fresh in my mind, I begin writing this post. I believe
Personal Development Featured The Ingredients Of Rediscovering Joy If you're looking to spice up your mood and find joy or rediscover joy, I think you got to the right place. Of course, there are times in our lives when every day feels like a struggle and we can't seem to escape the blues. But you know what? After
Personal Development Featured What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming Manager to My Peers Becoming a manager is not an overnight process. Although your role and job description may change suddenly, I view it as a transformational journey. It's similar to becoming a parent. You become a parent the day your baby is born, but it takes many years of experience to master parenting.
Monthly Dose of Testing Land Featured The Monthly Dose of Testing Land - January 2024 💡Subscribe to my Monthly Dose of Testing Land ⬇️️ Here is your Monthly Dose of Testing Land, a list of what I’m exploring, mulling, and experiencing each month. Book I read and stood with me In the past few months, I decided to take a break from reading self-improvement books
Software Testing Featured How Synthetic Tests and End-to-End Tests Fit Together I was introducing you in this post to the concept of synthetic testing and why are synthetic tests so useful. As a software tester, you may have encountered the term "end-to-end testing" or heard someone mention the need for such tests. If you're not familiar with end-to-end testing, let me
Personal Development Best Memoirs I Have Read If you love reading memoirs, here are some of my favorites for you to enjoy! When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi 🎖️Rating: 4/5⭐️ Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins 🎖️Rating: 3/5⭐️ Born a Crime by Trevor Noah 🎖️Rating: 4/5⭐️ Educated by Tara Westover 🎖️Rating: 4/5⭐
Software Testing Featured Synthetic Tests In a Nutshell🐿️ What You Need To Know About Synthetic Testing While researching for this post, I came across a humorous definition of synthetic testing. So, let me explain what it means. Synthetic Testing is like having a superhero tester. It's not a real person but a super-efficient, always-ready helper that checks if everything works perfectly before you and other real
Monthly Dose of Testing Land The Monthly Dose of Testing Land - November 2023 💡Subscribe to my Monthly Dose of Testing Land ⬇️️ Here is your Monthly Dose of Testing Land, a list of what I’m exploring, mulling, and experiencing each month. What I read I read many fiction books in November, including thrillers, mysteries, and crime novels. I absolutely love this genre of
Lifestyle Featured My 2023 in Pictures It has become a tradition now to create the "My 202x in Pictures" blog post and it's a pleasure for me to go over my camera roll and revisit all the great memories I made this year. If you haven't seen my previous ones, here's a sneak peek of "My
Personal Development Featured Stop Fighting the Impostor Syndrome And Accept It It has been months, perhaps even years since I intended to write this article. However, something at work triggered me these days, and I felt compelled to put my thoughts on paper. What happened? During a 1:1 meeting with one of my direct reports, the conversation unexpectedly turned into
Software Testing From Spreadsheet To TestRail In a Few Steps 💡Disclaimer: This post talks about a certain test case management tool, as this was the one chosen by us at a company level. There are plenty of other tools available on the market, the process of moving your manual test cases should be similar. Around one year ago, the QA
Monthly Dose of Testing Land Featured The Monthly Dose of Testing Land - September 2023 💡Subscribe to my Monthly Dose of Testing Land ⬇️️ Here is your Monthly Dose of Testing Land, a list of what I’m exploring, mulling, and experiencing each month. What I am reading Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by comedian Trevor Noah is an autobiography that is
Personal Development How Does a DEVELOPER See Testers This is a series of blog post interviews, aiming to help testers understand how different IT departments see the role of a tester. Every tester wants to become a better version of himself, yet not everyone has all the missing pieces to do that. Hopefully, these interviews will give you
Here Is How To Introduce AI Into Your Lifestyle I admit, I'm not the most tech-savvy person out there. When it comes to AI-based tools or services, I tend to go from denial to uncertainty to sticking with my old-fashioned ways. But, let's face it, Artificial Intelligence is a trend that's here to stay. So, if you're like me
Monthly Dose of Testing Land The Monthly Dose of Testing Land - August 2023 💡Subscribe to my Monthly Dose of Testing Land ⬇️️ Here is your Monthly Dose of Testing Land, a list of what I’m exploring, mulling, and experiencing each month. Book I read Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind for Peace and Purpose Every Day. It talks about how to overcome
Software Testing How To Use Mind Mapping As a Hack for Testers One of the biggest challenges I've seen during the years with many teams is that they do not have a clear understanding and an overview of all of the features and functionalities of the application they are working on. They do know though what their application is doing as this
Monthly Dose of Testing Land The Monthly Dose of Testing Land - July 2023 💡Subscribe to my Monthly Dose of Testing Land ⬇️️ Here is your Monthly Dose of Testing Land, a list of what I’m exploring, mulling, and experiencing each month. Book I am reading Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams. If you wonder how this fundamental aspect of
