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In this episode I invited Marcia Frith, who is a Business Analyst at RBC Dexia. Marcia is an assertive person with a lot of business knowledge. She does have leading in her blood, even though sometimes she’s not so sure about it….:)) Download today’s episode: TSTP 20091023 Marcia Frith Listen now: ** See Marcia’s profile on Linkedin. [...]

Kalam Abdul has a development background and is currently working as a technical recruiter with Procom, in Toronto. I invited Kalam to share from his expertise and to give a few tips on how to look for jobs, how to apply, how to market yourself on the current market. Download:  2009 08 10 TSTP Kalam Abdul Play: Running [...]

Joe is a QA manager at RBC Dexia and a tester at heart. He hires the best people he can find. His team is made of creative and strategic thinkers, problem-solvers and practical, hands-on testers. As a QA manager, Joe is constantly negotiating about the quality of the system, bringing together Business and IT. Download today’s episode in [...]

Inna Gryshchuk is a QA lead in Toronto. She’s originally from Ukraine and she came to Toronto about ten years ago. I’ve asked Inna to tell us some of the challenges she has as a QA lead and share some interviewing tips. Download today’s episode (mp3 format): 2009 06 09 TSTP Inna Gryshchuk Running time: 10′12″ ** Listen here: George Motoc [...]

Stephen Carrette is a recruiter at Modis in Toronto. I met Stephen a few years back when I was a junior tester looking for work. Running time: 11′46″ Download today’s episode: 2009-03-16-tstp-stephen-carrette Listen here: ** ** ** I remember about Stephen that he was very calm, was explaining things, taking the time to properly interview me in regards to my expectations [...]

Caitlin is a recruiter at Teksystems, Toronto. She’s one of the few recruiters out there that work hard on building relationships with consultants and maintaining them over time. Caitlin talks about the importance of having business knowledge in addition to testing knowledge, if personality is more important then having technical skills and personal presentation at job interviews. To listen [...]

Running time: 16′50″ In today’s episode I invited Serena Biesinger, who is a recruiter at Infotek Consulting Services in Toronto, Canada. Download the episode: 2009-01-20-tstp-serena Listen here: I’m happy that Serena accepted my invitation and she is the first recruiter to be interviewed in the Panamo QA podcast and probably any other QA podcast out there. The goal of inviting recruiters [...]

Running time: 6′31″ In this episode I invited Stan Nabokov, a test coordinator at CIBC. ** ** Download the episode here: 2009-01-09-tstp-stan-nabokov Listen to the episode within this page: Stan works at CIBC as a test coordinator. He accepted my invitation to talk about what he does and his perspective on automated testing tools. As he changed to a full [...]

Today’s episode features Mircea Baldean, who is a senior manager at RBC. Mircea is always in search of new things to learn and new challenges. You can have an interesting conversation with him over lunch and he will always give you something to think about. ** ** Running time: 9′48″ Download the mp3 file: tstp-2008-12-19-mirceabaldean Listen to the show within this [...]