Fireside Chat with Mukesh Rajput on "Building a QA Team from Scratch"

Fireside Chat with Mukesh Rajput

120+ Testers have already registered for this session!

Date: 12th June 2024

Time: 09:00 PM – 10:00 PM (IST)

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Session Title: How to Build a QA Team from Scratch

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Ready to establish a top-notch QA team? Join our AMA on “How to Build a QA Team from Scratch” for essential insights and practical tips. We’ll cover:

  • Understanding the Need for QA: The importance of QA in software development and its impact on product quality and user satisfaction.
  • Defining Roles and Responsibilities: Key QA roles like Manual Testers, Automation Engineers, and Performance Testers, with clear responsibilities for each.
  • Hiring the Right Talent: Tips for recruiting skilled QA professionals and the value of cultural fit and team diversity.
  • Establishing QA Processes and Best Practices: Setting up effective testing workflows, documentation, and best practices for manual and automated testing.
  • Building Automation Frameworks: Choosing the right tools and technologies for scalable, maintainable automation frameworks.
  • Fostering a Collaborative Culture: Encouraging collaboration between QA, Development, and other teams, and promoting continuous learning.
  • Implementing (CI/CD): Integrating QA into CI/CD pipelines for continuous testing and fast feedback.
  • Measuring and Improving Quality: Key metrics for evaluating QA performance and product quality, and using data for continuous improvement.
  • Leadership and Team Development: Mentoring team members, managing performance reviews, and fostering career growth.

Get the guidance you need to build and lead a successful QA team from scratch. Don’t miss out!

Key Takeaways

  • Understand how to establish clear roles, responsibilities, and processes for building a QA team from scratch.
  • Gain strategies for recruiting skilled and culturally aligned QA professionals.
  • Appreciate the importance of building robust automation frameworks.
  • Explore methods to promote open communication and teamwork within the QA team.
  • Learn how to use metrics for continuous improvement of QA processes.
  • Develop skills in providing effective leadership, mentorship, and support for team growth

Why one should attend Fireside Chat?

About Speaker

Mukesh Rajput
Mukesh Singh Rajput

Director of QA at Aspire

Mukesh Singh Rajput is a seasoned QA Director with over 12 years of extensive experience in the software testing industry. Currently serving at Aspire, a prominent fintech company based in Singapore, Mukesh leads a global team of 40+ QA professionals spanning Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India.

Mukesh’s career highlights include pivotal roles at leading organizations such as Gojek, Midtrans, and PayU Payments prior to joining Aspire. At Gojek, where he served as Head of QA for the Merchants division, Mukesh managed a team of 30+ QAs, overseeing testing strategies in the payment gateway sector. He played a crucial role in integrating various teams from multiple acquired companies and establishing a centralized QA team and processes.

During his tenure at Midtrans, Mukesh built the QA team from the ground up, implementing robust QA processes and frameworks that significantly enhanced product quality. His initiatives included creating Web and API automation frameworks using Selenium and RestAssured, respectively, and expanding the team’s capabilities through comprehensive training in automation technologies.

Overall, Mukesh has extensive experience in building teams from scratch across multiple organizations, focusing on manual testing, automation, performance testing, and release management. Additionally, he has created an open-source QA Dashboard, enhancing transparency and efficiency within teams and leadership.

Frequently Asked Questions

This course is for software project team members involved in testing, programming, business analysis, software construction, and deployment.

Yes, if he/she wants to validate their current automation approach and pick up ways to extend their practice – especially using tools to support test design.

Yes. There will be hands-on activities involved. 

None – but this would be more relevant to someone with testing or development experience.

Yes, All topics will be covered with hands-on exercises.

You can get your doubt solved with the instructor in the session, or can get in touch on a 1-1 communication channel.

We highly encourage attending all the sessions live. However, if you miss a particular session, we will share the session recording so you can cover those topics before the next session. Please note that this will be approved on a case to case basis.

Yes, our instructor is friendly and loves to help Testers. You can freely contact for any guidance and there will be monthly common sync-up as well.

Yes, you will receive notes/cheat-sheet. All examples including source code are provided.

You will get one participation certificate and a completion certificate (on completing the final project).

About The Test Tribe

The Test Tribe is the World’s Largest Software Testing Community turned EdTech Startup. Started in 2018 with a mission to give Testing Craft the glory it deserves while we co-create Smarter, prouder, and confident Testers.

We take pride in solving upskilling and growth for global Testing professionals through our unique offerings like Expert Courses, Membership, Cohorts, Offline Mixers, online Community spaces, and a lot of global Events. Our offerings enable Software Testers globally to collaborate, learn, and grow together.

With around 270+ Software Testing Events like Conferences, Hackathons, Meetups, Webinars, etc., and with other Community initiatives, we have reached a global footprint of over 120K+ Testers from 130+ Countries. We intend to provide life-altering growth to every single Testing professional on the planet through community and technology.

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