It was just like yesterday when the new year began with setting career and personal goals. Like every individual, organisations and teams have time-bound goals with objectives as well. In order to achieve these goals, these objectives are cascaded down to individuals as scorecards, KPIs and OKRs. With these, performance evaluation is done every now and then to […]
Interviews are a great avenue to connect job seekers to employers. Whatever the form a job interview takes; panel, online, or phone interview; its an opportunity for the employer to select a suitable candidate for a job role from a pool of shortlisted candidates. During which each candidate attempts to pitch or showcase himself as that suitable candidate. […]
Over the weekend, about three hundred (300) Nigerian Software testers, Engineers and Tech Enthusiasts converged at the ZoneTech Park, Lagos for the 35th chapter of Testathon. Testathon is like a hackathon but for testers. It was organised by the Global App Testing team in conjunction with the Facebook Local Insights Team. It was a two-day event that hosted […]
Earlier this month, my team launched version 1.0 of our customer-facing app after about eight months of active development. The app is designed to help customers remotely control and monitor their alternative energy sources on their mobile devices. The app was developed for both Android and iOS users using Flutter. My team comprises of Backend developers, Platform engineers, […]
After the bug fix comes verification which is basically a process of verifying if the bug was fixed or not. It usually requires that the software tester attempts to reproduce the bug after the fix has been implemented. If the bug cannot be reproduced, then the bug has indeed been fixed else the correct fix has not been […]
In the past couple of weeks, a number of people from non-IT careers have approached me to provide guidance and advice on how to seamlessly transition into a career in Software QA. Most times, their first question is usually around what automation tool or programming language they should learn in order to land their first job in a […]
This was my first time speaking at a tech conference. I have always had cause to speak at small gatherings but not a room of about a hundred QA engineers, QA Managers and QA enthusiasts. It was great rubbing minds with colleagues, making new friends and finally meeting many of the people I had previously interacted with on […]
Over the weekend, I was at my alma mater, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. During my visit, I couldn’t shake the nostalgic feeling I was getting. I recalled the challenges, pressures and demands I faced as an engineering student. Back then, I felt like the whole world was on my shoulders and was eagerly looking forward to graduating. One […]
The software development arm of Zola Electric is a distributed team with its members working from about six (6) different countries and three continents. This, of course, comes with its usual peculiarities which include but not limited to: Mismatch in time zones Cultural differences Many online pairing sessions and meetings Frequent use of collaboration tools such as Slack, […]
Thinking back to the post I shared last week, brings to remembrance a post shared by the renowned Speaker and 2019 Nigerian Presidential Candidate. He mentioned in it that there was a need for everyone to “help someone else arrive safely at YOUR PRESENT”. This is also very similar to Tyler Perry’s speech at the recent BET Awards […]
