Hiring Professional Testers
Huib Schoots
Improve Quality Services
Software development is about people. But how do you recognize an excellent testing professional? And how do you get the right people in your projects?
It is hard to recognize professional testers. Every tester is unique and brings different characteristics to the table. Every project is different too, and to be successful in finding the right professional tester for your project different characteristics may be important. There are many characteristics to be considered so to be able to recognize professional testers heuristics can be used.
In this webinar I will present my heuristics to recognize a professional tester. You will also learn about how I use them in practice. Finally you’ll learn about what interview techniques I use to hire the right person.
Key Takeaways:
- How to recognize a professional tester
- Interview techniques to hire the right person
About Me!
Huib Schoots is a senior test consultant at Improve Quality Services where he shares his passion for testing through coaching, training, and giving presentations on a variety of test subjects. With over fifteen years of experience in IT and software testing, Huib is experienced in different testing roles. Curious and passionate, he is an agile, exploratory and context-driven tester who attempts to read everything ever published on software testing. A member of the Dutch Exploratory Workshop on Testing, black-belt in the Miagi-Do School of software testing and co-author of a book about the future of software testing, Huib maintains a blog on magnifiant.com.