who we are...
- Top 50 IT Services firm, serving clients since 1983
- Privately-held, $172M company with nearly three decades of financial stability
- Associates averaging 13 years experience and 7 years tenure
- 1,400+ staff contract consultants
- Locations and resources throughout the U.S.
- National Best Places to Work Recognition
what we do...
- Single source for contract, contract-to-hire, and direct hire technical staffing needs
- Deliverables-based professional services in areas of Application Development, Client Infrastructure and Delivery Management services
- Offer highly experienced IT professionals skilled in virtually all software technologies and hardware platforms
- Average 2,500 yearly placements across all positions levels within IT
- Provide IT solutions to 1,000+ clients of varied industries and sizes throughout the U.S.
what clients say...
- "Most responsive and quality focused firm I have worked with"
- "MATRIX provides the highest percentage of qualified applicants"
- "Instrumental in helping us achieve goals"
- "Understand our business as well as we do"
- "Entire MATRIX staff goes above and beyond in meeting the needs of their consultants"
- "MATRIX is three times better than any other staffing vendor we’ve ever worked with"
We are proud to offer free seminars and lunch & learn sessions covering topics like agile development, virtualization, and HR best practices.
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Understanding Agile Testing
Overview
This Lunch and Learn is designed for QA Managers, QA Directors responsible for test planning and strategy development, Testers, Development Managers, IT Directors responsible for application development, Project Managers, Team Leads or Lead Developers.
The focus these days is doing better quality work faster by employing Agile methodologies. When a team learns to use a scrum methodology, for instance, the primary concern is for training the team on the scrum processes and making sure the programmers understand TDD or other programming techniques. There is rarely concern for or training provided to testers for how they should conduct their work. The fact is that a tester’s role on an agile project is very different than their role on a traditional team. The deliverables are different, the techniques are different and their overall tasks are different. This can be stressful to the testers and the programmers alike, and can jeopardize the success of the project. Find out how its different, what testers need to know to make the transition and how they can be the key to a successful agile project.
Note: This Lunch 'n Learn is focused on an Agile tester's mind set and tasks and does not discuss Agile tools or how to automate testing in an Agile environment.
Facilitator Bio
Susan Thompson is the Associate Director of QA at MATRIX Resources and has two decades of developing QA initiatives and managing testing efforts. She has created testing teams for companies such as Walt Disney World and SallieMae and led the QA and testing effort for some of their most critical projects. Susan has extensive experience that has developed a keen sense of what works and what doesn’t for all types of testing efforts, and is now expert in developing Agile testing strategies.
She has been a Scrum Master for nearly two years and has led several successful agile projects. Susan’s QA teams are always involved with MATRIX agile projects using the strategies she has developed to ensure successful projects of high quality. Susan is a member of the Scrum Alliance and the Atlanta QA Association.