Quality Bits

What makes an effective 1-on-1? What are the key aspects of valuable 1-on-1s? Is there a difference between a leader and a manager? Why does the language we use matter?

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User experience (UX) research is a field that can help us prevent issues before they take place. Greta Ruskiene knows this first-hand: she used to work as a QA and made a career shift to UX with time…

What's the difference between observability and monitoring? What's a telemetry? Why do they matter, and how could we use them more beneficially?

Abby Bangser shares her journey from a QA to a platfor…

With over a decade in data-related roles, working with Data Science, Data Engineering, Machine Learning, and MLOps Engineering, Aurimas Griciūnas is a great role model for many people wanting to lear…

We've all worked with "heroes," great professionals who frequently "save the day" in the company. What if we'd instead prevent the day from needing the saving altogether?

Dan Abel believes in 10x tea…

It's no surprise that this episode's guest Lewis Prescott has a website called "pactman". Pact is a popular contract testing tool, and Lewis is indeed a man who can tell quite a bit about Pact and co…

Amy Sandler is a lead coach and podcast host at Radical Candor. Most of the people in tech (and not only) know the Radical Candor framework and its bestselling book. In this story-fuelled podcast epi…

Aleksandra Kornecka turned from a QA into a Security Engineer. In this episode, Lina talks to Aleksandra to learn more about this switch, the importance of security, and its parallels with quality. Y…

Are you curious about the behind-the-scenes workings of product development? Want to know who's really responsible for the products we build and how to ensure they're valuable?

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Testing in production: scary abnormality or familiar regularity?

In this episode, Lina talks to Rouan about the role of a QA that is more than testing and testing in production. You'll hear about the…

It's the 10th episode of Quality Bits! 🎉

That calls for a celebration, so here are four quality bits of... Quality Bits! Lina shares her favorite parts of conversations with four inspiring previous gu…

Infrastructure as code - is it possible to test it? What opportunities are there in cloud? How can code standards support us in building high-quality products?

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What it's like to work in game industry? Is testing games just fun and games? In this episode of Quality Bits, you'll get a chance to learn the answers to these questions and so much more.

Lina talks…

In this episode, Lina talks to the feedback fairy, a well-known voice in the testing (and not only) community - Maaret Pyhäjärvi about the different readiness for changes in team and supporting the g…

"Companies have to have zero tolerance for racism. Zero tolerance for sexism. Zero tolerance for homophobia." - Amy Weidner

Amy is a DE&I Program Manager at Twitter with an extensive experience in rec…

Ever joined a new company? I bet. The start is always challenging, and as Angela Riggs says "you have to learn to learn".
In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina and Angela discuss the feelings you may…

In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to a QA-turned-Director-of-Engineering Finn Lorbeer about his past days of ripping off the QA column as a QA, the differences in driving change when you're…

In this episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Alaa Sarhan, the CTO at wundertax.
Alaa is not only a great engineer, but also someone who is passionate and caring when it comes to product. You'll hea…

In this episode of Quality Bits, you'll hear about so many aspects of building the right product. Lina's guest is Nadine Oldorf who shares her experience on stakeholder management, continuous discove…

In this initial episode of Quality Bits, Lina talks to Steve Upton about the definition of quality, Cynefin, deleting the bugs (?!!!), and so much more.

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