Artem Grygorenko
Welcome to my QA and management blog
How we improved our hiring process
Context The company has 700 people. It has a period of active growth and a plan to double the number of employees during the year, which was done as a result. Such growth is impossible with unoptimized hiring processes. Plus, any slowdowns in the hiring process affect the speed of bringing new products to market. In addition, it is necessary to make the process so that when a new person joins the team and the company, he can already actively help and build the quality assurance process as early as possible....
Difficulties after getting promoted to QA Lead
Introduction You are a Senior QA. You progress, learn something new, reach new heights on a project or product. And here is the same moment. Your manager comes to you and says: "Dude, you鈥檝e done a great job in recent years. You鈥檝e helped create cool processes and implemented new tools. And we鈥檙e ready to promote you to the leader of the testing team. Congratulations!" Today I propose to consider the problems and nuances that novice QA Leads face when promoting....
How I read articles
I use a combination of the following tools to achieve my goal: Browser, Pocket, Notion, Obsidian. My main objective is to gather useful information that I can use for Individual Development Plans (IDPs) to teach others and blogs posts. However, in the past, I faced the challenge of having a cluttered Notion database with unread and outdated articles. I used the Notion web-clipper to save articles to my database. However, I still struggled to read all the articles, leading to a mess of information....
Model vs Template: How I failed as a mentor and what I learned from my聽mistakes
Starting point Mentoring employees is one of the most important processes in our company. Wise and experienced veterans guide and curate professional growth of new people, helping interns transform into senior test engineers. When it comes to mentoring, there are many well known approaches one could use: Kolb鈥檚 cycle, the learning pyramid, Bloom鈥檚 taxonomy, etc. In Apriorit, we use approach based on Individual Development Plans, or IDPs. The gist of the approach is that the mentor creates a series of assignments for the student, designed to teach them skills and give them experience necessary for a new role....