Being a QA Engineer at Telerik Snejina Lazarova Dimo Mitev Telerik Corporation

 Snejina Lazarova  Senior QA Engineer CRM Team Team Lead Telerik Corp.  Dimo Mitev  Senior Team Lead System Integration Team Telerik Corp.  Senior QA Engineer Team Lead System Integration Team Telerik Corp. 2

 The Magic of Software  The Failure of Software 4 “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Arthur C. Clarke

 How did it all start? 6

 What about QA in Bulgaria? 7

 QA is not all about clicking! 8

 What is the role of QA in the software development process?  Monitoring the software engineering processes  Reducing the risk of problems  Ensuring the quality of the software  Providing information for decision-making  Help meeting standards:  Contractual or legal requirements  Industry-specific standards 9

Software Quality Assurance Engineer Software Test Engineer RequirementsPlanningDevelopmentTestingDeployment 10

What Do You Need and What Do You Get?

 Professional and personal qualities are required 12

 Test case design  Testing:  stories  bugs  regression testing (done before release)  Test Automating  creating new automated tests  updating old ones  checking daily test results 13

 Writing Acceptance criteria  Maintenance of the testing environment (test infrastructure) – setting up Virtual machines, test data, etc.  Bug triaging  Reproducing and Logging bugs  Maturing upcoming stories  Responding to tickets 14

 Meetings  Daily meeting – what have we done yesterday, what are we going do today, is there something that stands in our way  Planning meeting (takes place before each iteration)  Retrospective (takes place after each iteration)  Review (presenting the delivered functionality to stakeholders, customers and cooperators)  QA meetings – sharing knowledge 15

 Monitoring of the overall process  From beginning to the end 16

 Working with variety of tools for testing, reporting, automation, performance, … 17

 High standard for your work and the work of others 18

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 Why QA, not Developer? 20 /

Too good … but true!

 In Telerik you can gain broad know-how and choose your best fit  Different teams  Different QA processes  Different technologies 22

 More than 60 skillful Quality Assurance engineers work in Telerik and growing  Some of the most popular QA specialists are here 23

 Telerik is a leading software vendor  Over 100,000 organizations in 94 countries rely on Telerik products to improve their productivity every day 24

 Telerik offers room for your professional growth  Having three different positions:  Junior  Regular  Senior  QA Lead 25

The Challenge for Onsite Participants telerikacademy.com/Courses/Courses/Details/47 26

Questions?