The fifth retrospective for this year where I tried some new things, gave sessions on AI with some collaboration
Here goes Retrospective May 2024
Retrospective gives you the chance to Pause Think and Act.
You can take corrective actions or take a turn or completely change some paths which are no longer needed
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What went well
- AI Asia Odyssey and Tech Talent Review Day @ Microsoft Office Noida – I saw my colleagues giving a session related to AI / Copilot etc. So I contacted them via teams and got to know about Azure Developer Community. I got in touch with the team and landed up giving a session on AI.
You have to open the door to get the opportunities as they are waiting sometimes outside the doorThere were 150+ students mostly in second year of engineering who attended and have a new and different experience listening to their questions and concern.
Shared some implementable ideas using #azrure and #AI which they can implement at college level
YouTube videos
This month I created quite a few videos sharing tips which anyone can use whether you are a tester / developer or just a computer user.
If you are someone who opens so many tabs at a time. This can help you
There is another which is a productivity hack where you can split your browser window and do multi tasing with ease.
Test Automation Reporting – When you write the code to automate, people are most interested in the final report to see the result. Allure reports are the simplest to integrate in any existing framework. if you have 15 minutes definitely give it a try
To integrate this Allure report in Azure Dev Ops is another simple thing
A practical demonstration of using Azure AI, how you can use without writing a single line of code. Also shared how you can use via API as well.
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- Book Reading – I try to read few pages of a book every day. This month I am reading think and grow rich which I got it as a gift. I would recommend to you Energize your mind
Meet up
- Meetup @ Lambda test Office – Presented a session after 3-4 years physically to such a large audience. Post covid in hybrid culture hardly got a chance to present. So there were total 4 sessions and I was worried if I could cover in 30 minutes what I had planned for. Session went well and got a positive feedback. Check my notes below
- Top mate – Total 3 bookings in this month where people approach to discuss get guidance on testing / automation / mid level career crisis and other topics. Feel free to book a session for a detailed discussion @ Topmate
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- Meme Every Friday – On all 4 Fridays of the month, I was able to post a meme on LinkedIn. Do follow the Instagram page to not miss the fun
What did not go well?
- On this blog for last 5 months only retrospective post I could post (this is continuing sadly for many months)
- Could not take much interviews this month in the office.
What’s Ahead
- Few more video to go in AI Series before it come to conclusion for AI900 – bit.ly/aiandcloud
- Create notes on GitHub Pages for testing and automation which I created the base page.
- Create some shorts and planning a series on something I am working on
- Make this blog more structured
Hope you have learned something from it. Any suggestions for me, feel free to ping on LinkedIn.
Are you doing the retro if not public at least in private, if not start it now. How was yours retrospective may 2024
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Hello! My name is Gaurav Khurana. I have 12+ years of experience as a Software Tester. Won the Tester Of the Year Award 2022. Currently working for Microsoft. Worked in 2 MNCs. A youtuber and blogger and worked on *nix and windows based apps for telecom & insurance domain. Used Selenium, Serenity-bdd, RestAssured, AzureDevOps, Karate, SoapUI, Perl, Shell scripting, Postman, TestProject for automation,etc along with excel. Udzial is a polish word which means share. I believe in #SharingIsCaring.
