The industry has taken a shift on how the role of Quality is viewed. The overall expectation of the role has also changed. Let’s dive into how we shift our minds from black box thinking of the application in which we test, to actually understanding the application in its entirety. This in turn changes what we put in our test suites/banks and improves our way of testing completely. No more QA person that just understands the application in which only the end-user understands but also the understanding of which the architect and engineer who built the software. Let’s empower ourselves to become better testers by becoming more technical.

Misty Pearson is the Director of Quality Engineering at KUDO, a SaaS multilingual conferencing software company. Misty received her Bachelors of Computer Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Previously, she was the Vice President of a Global Software Quality Engineering Team within the Technology Organization of USBankElavon. In her career she has lead organizations of over 50 engineers(specializing in Manual, Automation, Certification and Performance engineering) and has specialized in building and formalizing high performing teams in and outside of the Quality Engineering discipline. Over the life of her career, she has also worked in Software Engineering, Product Management and Project Management. Misty has spent over 16years of her career working in Agile, over 11 years in Agile Scrum and the last 5 years in SAFe Agile. She has been trained in SAFe for Teams and certified in SAFe 5 Agile (Leading SAFe) and SAFe 5 DevOps. One her most important achievements and joys is being the mother to her three beautiful sons.