Me
I have been testing software for quite a while now, seven or so years. I specialise in exploratory testing, and I focus on testing nonfunctional requirements. I have worked on various software products in multiple industries and found that performance, stability, or scalability have a much greater impact on our customers and on their customers than any new feature we roll out.
Before I became a tester, I had many previous lives, from being a linguist in Budapest, to being a marketing director in London. I bring a lot of background knowledge of many industries, and a lot of skills of various teams and cultures to my work. Very often, the motivation behind many of my quirky test scenarios is an event I personally experienced in real life.
You can find me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leftygbalogh/
Chat me up.
If you are like me, and prefer old-school email – I do reply to all emails: leftygbalogh at gmail dot com
If you are okay cold-calling, let’s talk.
You can call my Austrian number: plus four three six seven six nine five two eight double five eight.
This Blog
I decided to run this blog to advocate the importance of performance testing in the tester community as well as among the many business stakeholders who feel that their products and solutions should be doing much better, in the literal sense of the word. If you feel your customers deserve a better service instead of more bells and whistles. Let’s talk. I have a lot to learn from you, and I might also be able to help you solve your problem along the way
This blog is my way of learning from the journey as I progress. Since writing is the most rigorous kind of thinking that I know, it gives me a chance to reflect and make amends where I am wrong. Hence improve the way I test software and champion quality.
I aim to focus on a single lesson in each post, to have just one key takeaway. This way I can keep them short, so it easy to read, to understand, to argue with.
About You
I do not know everything. And even though I will have strong opinions, I am an empirical skeptic. Reality and experiments will always trump nice sounding theories. So argue with me. I look at this as a journey to learn, to know more. If you think I am wrong, please point it out. Correct me. I like a lively debate. I believe in Kahneman’s adversarial collaboration. Let’s agree to disagree and let’s find a way to figure out how it works, regardless of who is right and who is wrong.
You can leave a comment on the posts, or send me a message here.