Quality Sense Podcast: Simon Prior – #MakeATester

In this Quality Sense episode, our host Federico has the pleasure of interviewing Simon Prior, who has worked across the cyber security, Retail, gaming and airline industries. Simon is a passionate software quality leader, advocate of the importance of teaching testing at universities and co-host of the Testing Peers podcast.

Episode Highlights

  • How Simon got started in his testing career and why
  • Why universities don’t teach the top skills needed in software testing (hint, the most critical ones aren’t technical!)
  • How to help form more potential testing candidates and widen the talent pool 
  • What to look for when hiring a tester with no experience?