About
Proactive Senior QA Tester and quality improvement practitioner. Experience working with international companies within:
• travel
• finance
• medical practice management
• employee scheduling
• consulting
Demonstrated expertise includes:
• web, mobile (iOS/Android), API
• exploratory testing
• collaboration with developers to create robust solutions which delight clients
• high quality work within fast development environments
• working with teams to produce fast feedback loops
• integration of testing into early project life (“shift left”)
• establishing continuous improvement programs
• problem solving leading to delivery of quality solutions
• stakeholder engagement and management
• understanding client needs
• policy and process design, negotiation and implementation
I have strong experience in waterfall and agile methodologies and significant waterfall to agile transformation experience.
Test Lead experience - managing teams of up to 8 direct reports with a mix of offshore and onshore team members.
Advocate for continuous improvement programs, striving for quality outcomes for both customer and company.
Experienced working in high performing teams as well as autonomously as required.
I build strong relationships to support effective collaboration and high quality software production. I teach others to do the same.
Articles by Paul
Contributions
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How do you define your role as an agile tester?
The first thing you should consider is informing people that use the term “agile testing” is a misnomer, something that doesn’t exist. Should they make reference to an “agile tester” please update them in the same way. While you’re doing this, introduce them to context and explain that agile is a context. When you’ve finished this discussion you can then gear up for the next myth you’ll need to bust.
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How can you use Agile testing methods with limited resources?
The whole premises of this article is deeply flawed. There is no “agile testing”. That suggests a whole different kind of testing and that is complete nonsense. Agile is a context in which testing (and testers) operate. The approach, tactics, strategies, the need to learn, explore, discover, report, collaborate apply in the context of agile, and outside of that context. When people propose things that relate to “agile testing”, do the right thing and inform that there is agile, there is testing and there is testing in agile but there is no “agile testing”
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What are some of the common challenges and risks associated with using rapid testing methodologies?
I have no idea how people are responding to such a poorly defined idea. The basis of this is “ Rapid testing methodologies” and no where is this clearly defined. Exactly what does this term mean/cover/include? It goes on to state “ They are often associated with agile and DevOps practices, such as continuous integration, continuous delivery, and test automation”. Test automation has an association with testing, the others don’t. Agile is not a testing approach neither is DevOps. How does “rapid testing methodologies” relate to test automation? Complete silence on the relationship. “ We will discuss some of these challenges and risks, and how to overcome them. How, the terms of the topic have not been defined. This is a time waster.
Activity
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The Demo Asymmetry Principle: It takes at least one order of magnitude more effort to analyze a pleasing demo seriously and critically than it does…
The Demo Asymmetry Principle: It takes at least one order of magnitude more effort to analyze a pleasing demo seriously and critically than it does…
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Last week I decided that I wanted to check in with all the staff in our portfolio. Some I know very well from collaborating on projects, but others I…
Last week I decided that I wanted to check in with all the staff in our portfolio. Some I know very well from collaborating on projects, but others I…
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You can’t spell “prompt engineering” without most of the letters in “programming”.
You can’t spell “prompt engineering” without most of the letters in “programming”.
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Experience
Education
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Licenses & Certifications
Publications
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A Spectrum of Difference: Creating EPIC software testers - TestBash Australia Conference
Ministry of Testing
A talk on the background of the EPIC TestAbility Academy, what we have achieved and what we are focused on for the future.
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A Spectrum of Difference: Creating EPIC software testers - LAST Conference
LAST Conference
Why we created the EPIC TestAbility Academy, our journey to date and what we hope to achieve
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A Spectrum of Difference: Creating EPIC software testers
Testing Trapeze
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EPIC Test-Ability Academy – the story so far
Women Testers
The story of setting up the EPIC TestAbility Academy. How and why we embarked on this venture.
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Transforming a Test Manager into a Test Leader
TEST Magazine
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Guest editorial
Women Testers
Guest editorial on the importance of the test community
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Management and trust – So simple, so complex, so important
Testing Trapeze
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It’s on my list – One piece of the quality jigsaw
Women Testers
Thoughts on the benefits of using checklists as a test tool
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Testers FAQ on certifications
Testing Circus
An article on some of the beliefs around certification
Projects
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Australian Testing Days Conference 2016
Co-partner of the Australian Testing Days Conference 2016.
Jointly responsible for delivering 2 day conference:
organising speakers and workshop facilitators
organising venue
remuneration packages
ticket pricing
sponsorship packages
sponsorship recruiting
running the event days, smoothing out problems
designing and running full day Exploratory Testing workshop with Lee Hawkins
Organizations
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Epic Testability Academy (ETA)
Co-Founder and Facilitator
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Working with EPIC Recruit Assist (a division of EPIC Assist), and Lee Hawkins, ETA provides people on the autism spectrum the opportunity to learn software testing. Our aim is to find our participants employment in the IT sector using the skills and network of EPIC Recruit Assist. Working with Lee Hawkins we have developed a 12 week syllabus and gathered the resources required to deliver our classes. My services, along with Lee, are provided at no charge. EPIC Recruit Assist are covering the other costs (such as room hire). The program seeks to help people not considered "mainstream" to find entry into an IT career. We aim to help shine a light on the benefits of workplace diversification along with the skills and general benefits diversification can bring.
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