Practical Strategies for Building and Maintaining a Thriving QA Community
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Built an internal OP Tech Academy with 6 learning towers (QA, DevOps, data, security, AI, design) offering 6–11 week courses run by internal mentors, spring and autumn semesters and reporting 620 course enrollments this autumn. Uses centralized hubs like Confluence/Teams, coaching via chapters and guilds (20–30 active organizers), a 70/20/10 learning model, and experiments with GPT and co-pilot in workflows. Presents templates and QR codes for reuse.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03Talk agenda
- 3:11QA communities importance
- 4:37QA community challenges
- 4:59Communication strategies
- 8:33Coaching for growth
- 11:46Training culture
- 14:43OP Tech Academy case study
- 20:50AI in QA practices
- 22:18Community sizes and reach
- 26:57Takeaways
- 27:59Q&A
- 38:06Closing
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