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QA Engineer - What It Is and How I Do It

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Angela Riggs (she/her)

The document discusses a career change from teaching to becoming a QA engineer. It describes why the person loved teaching but left due to stress, and how they discovered tech through an introduction to programming class and bootcamp. They then got an internship at Twitter where they performed well and were hired. The document then explains what QA engineering involves like ensuring quality, testing, and automation. It provides examples of QA tools and processes used like continuous integration, code auditing, and acceptance testing. It encourages the reader to consider a career in QA engineering.

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Let’s Talk QA
| Tech Academy | 04/07/20172 Who Am I? 💑 🐶 📷 🌲 📖 💻
Changing Careers
| Tech Academy | 04/07/2017 Why I Loved Teaching • Helping kids discover & learn 📚🔬) • Supporting kids & families * • Seeing my kids succeed 🥇 • Good challenges 💪 4
| Tech Academy | 04/07/20175 Why I Left Teaching • Unsupported • High behavioral needs • Stress of teaching outweighed joys 😩 🤷 💔
| Tech Academy | 04/07/20176 How I Found Tech • Nudge from my husband • Intro to Programming • Fun! Challenging! Interesting! • Full-stack JavaScript bootcamp • Internship
| Tech Academy | 04/07/20177 Internship • Twitter • Mentorship Saturdays • Asked for a job • Kicked ass • Hired!
QA Engineer
| Tech Academy | 04/07/20179 What Even is QA? • Quality Assurance • Holding work to requirements • Edge cases • Automated testing • Acceptance testing
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201710 How Do I QA? • Organize 🗄 • Prioritize 🚥 • Ask questions❓ • Lead improvements 🚀 💥 • Remove blockers 🛑 ➡ ✅
QA Tools & Process
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201712 Continuous Integration • Automatic checks • Prevents bad deploys • Many tools
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201713 Code Audit
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201714 Code Audit
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201715 Visual Regression
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201716
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201717
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201718 Documentation
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201719 Jira Mine
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201720 Acceptance Tests • Create a partner • Upload image • Enter title • Reorder partners
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201721 How Can You QA? • User experience • Linters • Code audit yourself • Visual regressions
Questions?
| Tech Academy | 04/07/201723 Q&A • Tools • Teams • Career • Process • Communication

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QA Engineer - What It Is and How I Do It

  • 2. | Tech Academy | 04/07/20172 Who Am I? 💑 🐶 📷 🌲 📖 💻
  • 4. | Tech Academy | 04/07/2017 Why I Loved Teaching • Helping kids discover & learn 📚🔬) • Supporting kids & families * • Seeing my kids succeed 🥇 • Good challenges 💪 4
  • 5. | Tech Academy | 04/07/20175 Why I Left Teaching • Unsupported • High behavioral needs • Stress of teaching outweighed joys 😩 🤷 💔
  • 6. | Tech Academy | 04/07/20176 How I Found Tech • Nudge from my husband • Intro to Programming • Fun! Challenging! Interesting! • Full-stack JavaScript bootcamp • Internship
  • 7. | Tech Academy | 04/07/20177 Internship • Twitter • Mentorship Saturdays • Asked for a job • Kicked ass • Hired!
  • 9. | Tech Academy | 04/07/20179 What Even is QA? • Quality Assurance • Holding work to requirements • Edge cases • Automated testing • Acceptance testing
  • 10. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201710 How Do I QA? • Organize 🗄 • Prioritize 🚥 • Ask questions❓ • Lead improvements 🚀 💥 • Remove blockers 🛑 ➡ ✅
  • 11. QA Tools & Process
  • 12. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201712 Continuous Integration • Automatic checks • Prevents bad deploys • Many tools
  • 13. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201713 Code Audit
  • 14. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201714 Code Audit
  • 15. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201715 Visual Regression
  • 16. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201716
  • 17. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201717
  • 18. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201718 Documentation
  • 19. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201719 Jira Mine
  • 20. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201720 Acceptance Tests • Create a partner • Upload image • Enter title • Reorder partners
  • 21. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201721 How Can You QA? • User experience • Linters • Code audit yourself • Visual regressions
  • 23. | Tech Academy | 04/07/201723 Q&A • Tools • Teams • Career • Process • Communication