What I've learned in the last 6 months
It has been a very busy 6 months at work...decided that I really need to keep track of what goes on so lessons don't go forgotten...
Non-technical
Technical
Reading/Learning
Non-technical
- What it's like living with mostly remote teams (learning to better use communication tools)
- Living under major enterprise systems (less control over hardware, purchasing, security, etc)
- Empathy toward developers (experience w. development)
- Empathy toward QA (experience w. testing & test automation)
- Empathy toward operations (experience w. on-call paging)
- Empathy toward management (leading remote teams is hard)
- AWS (getting used to destroying servers, load balancers, etc, getting used to re-thinking how to design things)
- Writing tech specs to communicate ideas (because remote teams)
- Living with branches (complexities, missing input/requirements makes for long-lived branches that need care and feeding)
- Understanding when the agile testing pyramid applies (sometimes the ideal is simply not possible today)
- Understanding when and when not to focus on something (are you certain what you're doing is adding value? are you certain you understand what you're working on?)
- The importance of communicating change across the organization
- Cornhole (yes, we have a cornhole court in the office)
Technical
- Modern two-factor authentication (managing, living with) (Duo, Authy, RSA)
- JIRA/Confluence/Bitbucket
- New Relic (Synthetics, APM, Insights, etc)
- Solarwinds DPA
- PagerDuty
- AWS (EC2, ELB, VPCs, S3, Route53, IAM, CloudFront, RDS, Lambda)
- Wildcard DNS
- TeamCity
- Octopus
- C#
- Node.JS
- Selenium
- NUnit (incl. parallelizing tests)
- Sauce Labs
- Using 3rd party APIs (Twilio, Octopus)
- SE-Builder
- More Powershell
- Vagrant/VirtualBox
Reading/Learning
- Lean IT
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things (just started)
- Pluralsight - Creating an Automated Testing Framework With Selenium
- Pluralsight - (can't recall the name, node.js related, though)
- DevOpsDays Toronto 2016
- Toronto Application Lifecycle Management User Group - Agile testing
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