Originally posted on the CrossBrowserTesting blog in 2017. Before becoming a tester, I worked in IT recruitment. I recruited for a variety of roles, ranging from Marketing Analyst to Category Manager to Head of Analytics. Time and time again, hiring managers would tell me they were looking for one key thing from candidates: […]
Author: Cassandra H. Leung
Persons of Interest: A Tool for Minority, Underrepresented and Marginalised People
Note: I was really pissed off when I wrote this, and it reads that way at times. I decided not to “tone it down”, because I don’t need to. It’s not the responsibility of oppressed people to make witnessing the results of their being oppressed more palatable to other people. If this is uncomfortable […]
5 Years in Testing: Then and Now
“Who knows what that’ll be next year, but if it’s anything like this one, it’ll be good.” Hmm. I think we all had a hard time predicting how 2020 would turn out. While I count myself lucky that it wasn’t exactly bad for me, personally, it certainly didn’t turn out the way I […]
4 Years in Testing: Then and Now
It’s strange to think that I’ve been professionally testing for four years already. Time seems to fly by so quickly, and it’s time again to reflect on what’s happened in the last year. Balance and Priorities As ever, I’m still working on how to strike the right balance between all the […]
Sharing Responsibilities: Circles Workshop
Earlier this year, I found myself on a team with a total of five testers – a welcome change from the solitary one. With this new count came a new challenge: how could we split tasks and responsibilities in the most sensible, fair and efficient way? To solve this problem, I held a workshop […]