Testing Becoming Harder to be Valuable

Maaret Pyhäjärvi

Vaisala

We all like to think that the work we do is valuable, and that testers should be paid same as developers. If we want to talk about getting paid for what we’re worth, we have to be better at talking about what we’re worth.

Thinking critically about our worth and extending our reach to what matters in the organisation from servicing our immediate Agile team to also servicing our product owner and integrations making subsystems into systems is something worth looking at.

How do we look at value we provide under conditions of continuous releases?

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About Me!

Maaret Pyhäjärvi is an exploratory tester extraordinaire with a day-job at Vaisala as Principal Test Engineer. She is a tester, (polyglot) programmer, speaker, author, and a community facilitator. She has been awarded the two prestigious global testing awards, Most Influential Agile Testing Professional Person 2016 (MIATPP) and EuroSTAR Testing Excellence Award (2020), and selected as Top-100 Most Influential in ICT in Finland 2019 & 2020.


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