From Tester to Engineering Manager - Leading People Who Know More Than You Do
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Moved from 15 years of testing into an engineering manager role at money supermarket, now supporting two teams (mobile apps and credit monitoring), hiring, setting consistent practices, and breaking silos that caused divergent customer journeys. Starts by managed two placement students then scales to line-manage multiple developers and testers, joins an EM Collective of four to define ways of working, measures success by clearer career progression, fewer missed one‑to‑ones, and teams owning delivery rather than the manager doing the work.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:01Tester to manager journey
- 11:50Why management path
- 17:10EM role at MoneySuperMarket
- 21:02Building support network
- 25:57Learning to delegate
- 29:08Tester skills for management
- 36:51Overcoming imposter syndrome
- 38:36Q&A
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