With this session, attendees will learn how AI can make transitioning between manual and automated testing easier, reducing the technical barriers for manual testers and helping automation engineers handle QA tasks more efficiently. This will lead to faster test execution, improved test coverage, and a more versatile skill set, enhancing their career growth and making their day-to-day work more streamlined and impactful.

Takeaways -
➤ AI makes automation easier: You’ll see how AI can help manual testers get into automation without the heavy coding, making the transition smoother.

➤ Less repetitive work: Automation engineers will learn how AI can take care of some of the repetitive QA tasks, freeing them up to focus on more interesting challenges.

➤ Boost your QA skills: You’ll walk away knowing how to use AI to become a more well-rounded QA professional, opening up new career opportunities and making your workday more efficient.

Power-Up Your Career Path: Attendees will learn how to strategically navigate from QA roles to leadership positions or entrepreneurship, much like using power-ups in Super Mario Bros. to overcome obstacles. They'll gain practical insights on skill development, networking, and identifying opportunities that can catapult their careers to the next level.

Unlock the Funding Cheat Code: Participants will discover how to access and leverage public funding and support, especially for women in tech. This knowledge is akin to finding a hidden cheat code in a game, providing resources and backing to turn entrepreneurial ideas into reality. They'll learn about specific programs, application strategies, and how to maximize the benefits of incubators and mentorship.

Master the Work-Life-Startup Juggling Game: Attendees will gain strategies for effectively balancing full-time employment, entrepreneurial pursuits, and personal life. Like mastering the increasing speed and complexity in Tetris, they'll learn techniques to efficiently manage multiple responsibilities without burning out, ensuring sustainable progress in their professional and personal lives.

➤ Understanding importance of how discovery of risk, assessing risk, communicating a risk to the team and avoiding making individual decisions helps to build stronger relationships with overall teams and builds credibility of the importance of testers providing a service of informational discoveries in daily work.

➤ How to contribute design controls to prevent realization of risks, increase mitigation communication of discovered risks to testing peers, to developers, to product owners and project managers including role playing language examples of seeking advice from the entire project team.

➤ Understanding when is the right time to communicate risk to avoid harm as timing of communication can vary based on the type of risk and how it may or may not affect a project’s timeline.

You will gain practical insights into how, as a Quality Engineer, you can actively contribute to security initiatives. By applying these techniques, you will enhance both your visibility and value within the company.

In this session, Robert will share his journey of going from laid off to newly employed, how to build an effective support system and network properly so that your unemployment period is as short as possible.

➤ Everyone faces impending layoffs no matter how safe you may feel.

➤ Building a quality networking system and utilizing tools on the market to help find your next role as a QA.

➤ Building your emotional, mental and physical support system so you are ready if/when this may happen to you.

Attendees will have a shortcut to building a strategy for testing AI-based non-deterministic systems. They will avoid having to start from scratch researching the challenges and techniques associated with testing AI-based systems.

➤ Understanding the challenges associated with testing non-deterministic AI-based systems
➤ Techniques for testing AI-based systems
➤ The required skills for testing AI-based systems