How to Truly Build a Team: Remove “Dev” & “QA” from Engineer’s Titles • Cindy Xin • YOW! 2018

This presentation was recorded at YOW! 2018. #GOTOcon #YOW Cindy Xin - QE Manager at Gumtree Australia ORIGINAL TALK TITLE Take Away “Dev” and “QA” from Engineer’s Job Title and Build a Truly “One Team” – The Gumtree Bidirectional Transformation Journey ABSTRACT As we move into #agile and #DevOps world, silos need to be broken down between different stages and different roles. Testing needs to shift left to remove the biggest barrier that having dedicated people/dedicated phase to do testing, which means “Developer need to do more testing”. DevOps requires continuous testing (automation) to provide fast quality feedback. With the majority testing work shifting left on Developer’s shoulder, and less needs for manual testing, traditional QA’s role needs to be reinvented. What exactly organisation can do to transform legacy Dev and QA team to embrace these changes? This session will share Gumtree’s bidirectional transformation journey – How we change people’s mindset and skillset and the way of working in stages, introduce the tools built along the transformation journey to support the changes, eventually take away the role from their job title to bring them together as a truly “one team”. [...] #SoftwareEngineering #CTO #HowToBeACTO #Team #HumanFactor #Transformation #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #CindyXin #Gumtree #YOWcon Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at Sign up for updates and specials at SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily.