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== Intro - I'm a Full Stack Agile Quality Analyst==
== Vincent Dirks - Software Quality Engineer ==
:'''I''' love testing and will use all resources & tools at my disposal to do it. Every delivery team has different constraints, skills, processes, bottlenecks, and opportunities for how they deliver product & process changes. I'll try to leverage the skills and resources already in the team, and add my own skills and experiences, maybe sprinkle on some ideas from the test, agile, and dev communities, as well as, some plain experimentation, to best test and deliver the changes. Each context is different and I love adjusting the development, test, and delivery processes to match them to the context at hand. I like [http://www.satisfice.com/articles/what_is_et.shtml '''exploratory testing'''], and I also have fun coding [http://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/856 '''automated checks''']. I do gravitate towards [http://context-driven-testing.com/ '''Context Driven Testing''' (CDT)], and (largely) agree with the thoughts and expressions from the leaders of the CDT community, such as [http://satisfice.com/ James Bach] and [http://www.developsense.com/ Michael Bolton]. I really like [http://agilemanifesto.org/ '''Agile'''], which for me is ''"[[autonomy with responsibility through trust]]"''.
I am a generalist Software Quality Engineer, always keen to learn the product, team, technology, and organisational contexts, to adapt myself to them, and then use my skills and knowledge to perform the role required from me. I am able to test solutions and processes directly, and also love to help engineer the whole interconnected ecosystem necessary to efficiently determine and monitor the quality of a software solution. Automating the product itself, as well as preparing the product to be ready for testing, version control and branching strategy, CI/CD pipelines, creating test environments and infrastructure, preparing test data, capture and aggregation of (test) environment logging and monitoring data, and many more, all of these tasks lend themselves to degrees of automation.
:'''I''' think the essence of software development is still about '''people''': It is '''Driven by people''', '''Made by people''', and '''Made for people'''. We all have ''emotions, passions, motivators, and more! We're all different, and we all have something unique to give. ''


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I really like testing things, as well as developing tools that help us do it efficiently.
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| '''I''' love to work with people that have a '''passion''' for what they do, and have '''fun''' doing it!  '''Testing '''is my '''professional''' passion, and I love working with people who '''respect''' and '''challenge''' me to be my best.
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==Skills==
==Skills==

Revision as of 04:52, 1 May 2024

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Vincent Dirks - Software Quality Engineer

I am a generalist Software Quality Engineer, always keen to learn the product, team, technology, and organisational contexts, to adapt myself to them, and then use my skills and knowledge to perform the role required from me. I am able to test solutions and processes directly, and also love to help engineer the whole interconnected ecosystem necessary to efficiently determine and monitor the quality of a software solution. Automating the product itself, as well as preparing the product to be ready for testing, version control and branching strategy, CI/CD pipelines, creating test environments and infrastructure, preparing test data, capture and aggregation of (test) environment logging and monitoring data, and many more, all of these tasks lend themselves to degrees of automation.

I really like testing things, as well as developing tools that help us do it efficiently.

Skills

Testing

API Testing, Context Driven Testing, Risk Based Testing, Tool Assisted Exploratory Testing, Test Planning, Visual Modelling, Session and Thread Based Testing, Gherkin, Behaviour Driven Development, Metrics Driven Development, AB Testing, Mobile Testing, Mentoring & Induction, UAT, Firmware Testing.

Automation

Westpac(2.5yr): REST Assured ... XXX TBD
Fiserv (3.3yr): Postman & Newman, JavaScript(Node.js, Express.js, Pug), TFS, Powershell, SpecFlow & C#, SoapUI, SQL.
Trade Me (2yr): SoapUI/Groovy scripting, SQL, Protractor, XPATH & CSS locators.
LeasePlan (2yr): VBA/Access, SQL.

Programming

Javascript (Node.js, Express.js, Pug, Cypress.io, Webdriver.io), Java (Selenium, GWT, Robotics, JUnit), SQL, C#, Powershell, C, C++

Other

Splunk, Squad master, CI/CD, Deploy lead, Product demo's, Training, Manufacturing Resource Planning, Logistics, External Relationships, Radars, Lasers, Fibre-optics, Physics, Robotics, Statistics

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Related wiki pages

References

Volunteering

Professional Development

Education

Presentations, Posts, and blogs

What I'm reading, watching, listening, learning, and trying out in 2024

Interesting Reads

Interesting alternative to the "test automation pyramid". There are testing problems to consider at every level, Quality above requires quality below.

My Observability Project

I want to learn the difference between these technologies to see how it might apply to my Observability Project


Archive of pre-2024 entries

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