Happy Mentors with Successful Padawans
summary
A QA internship program at michelada.io trains candidates through a five-part practical curriculum covering testing fundamentals (STV), web programming with HTML/CSS, MySQL databases, Java OOP basics, and Agile workflows. Mentors assign topics, trainees study and take targeted evaluations, then apply tasks on live projects (grooming, sprint planning, unit/integration checks, regression, and production smoke); cohorts run 3–4 or 8–10 months (current cycle 4 months) and the program yields about 75% hire retention.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:27Speaker's experience
- 3:14Mentor and padawan
- 3:56Program origins and goals
- 5:41Designing activities
- 9:44Five learning categories
- 15:08Dynamics
- 18:01Functional testing in agile
- 24:45Early defect knowledge benefits
- 25:54Padawan success reasons
- 27:42Mentor happiness
- 30:52Replicate the model
- 31:37Professional growth tips
- 34:15Personal learning responsibility
- 35:18Training structure
- 37:24Realistic expectations
- 38:46Selection criteria
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