Best Practices as QA, QA Lead, and Automation Engineer

Question:

I see you have a blog section about hiring the right managers/ architects… what’s your best piece of advice though when an org only has QA “jack of all trade” members? What are the best practices and key things to keep in mind when trying to wholistically serve a team as both QA, QA manager, and automation engineer?

Insights:

You can be a leader even if your title doesn't say you are. Also, if you are expected to perform different types of tasks, I recommend you use your time wisely, find out when you are most effective for each of them, I guarantee it won't be at the same timeframes. And ofc a company is always going to try to hire people that could do as many jobs as possible by getting paid as one employee, but if you are part of the hiring process, make sure you hire people with different abilities than you.

So you can split the tasks and do what you really like and focus on your career while helping the company the same.

-- Noemi Ferrera