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Maryam Umar: How to Advance Your Career and Grow the Team in Test Automation

How do people end up in test automation? Is it a skill people can learn at universities or it’s more of a vocation, really?

There is no one path that leads to QA. What’s more important is that testing is just a subset of quality assurance. There're so many aspects to think about when people talk about signing anything off from a QA perspective.

In the most recent episode of Semaphore Uncut, we welcome Maryam Umar, Head of QA at Rezolve, international speaker. Maryam explains what the three Ps of testing are, how to advance your career as a testing engineer, and how to start a new position as a tester. Listen to the full episode or read the edited transcript.

What we talked about: 

  • Starting with test automation
  • How Maryam ended up in test management
  • How to grow a team from 20 to 500 engineers and keep the quality of the processes
  • Three pillars of quality assurance
  • How to start a new position: checklist

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