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QA Approaches in Hiring: From Shift-Left Testing to Shewhart’s Control Charts
Track Talk I November 14 I Track 3 I 11:15 AM – 11:55 AM
Description
Assembling and maintaining the right team is the main prerequisite for successful development and testing. Whether you’re a manager or just step in to interview candidates, you have a hand in shaping the team, and as testers, we know how good processes affect the result. With our skills in QA, how can we enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the interview process? If we often reject a candidate and ask recruiters to bring in another one, don’t you think it’s similar to testers rejecting features from developers? What would signal you to revise the testing method? I think we should measure the quality of the sourcing stage, and ensure we adapt our processes if too many candidates fail the interviews. Hiring is just a process, and our common QA approaches can be applied to improve its efficiency: Shewhart’s control charts to monitor variation in sourcing, shift-left testing to verify the job description, pair work with recruiters to reduce information loss, and designing the testing strategy (interviews!) based on the necessary quality attributes for the candidate. Join me in this talk to explore how a good tester can analyse and improve hiring!
Key-takeaways
If the effort to recruit employees who meet job requirements is increasing, maybe effectiveness of the hiring process is declining, Shewharts control charts are a perfect tool to spot this. “You can’t inspect quality into something” — conducting more interviews doesn’t necessarily improve the quality of candidates, similarly to adding excessive testing will not always improve quality but will delay the release. Designing interviews, similarly to designing testing strategy, should begin with choosing the quality attributes and risks. Testing the requirements is the simplest QA approach available to everyone
About the Speaker
As a quality enthusiast, Vitaly believes that people should take pride in their work and companies should aim to produce high-quality products. Vitaly has spent the last 23 years in IT, focusing on engineering, quality assurance and mentorship. He is also a huge animal lover and have saved and raised more than 50 cats and dogs.
