Experiences at Independent Contracting

Have a product or service that you can prove will benefit people. In the realm of testing and quality assurance, this means a product or service that helps people convince with evidence and manage with facts. When you are independent, it's all about selling yourself as well as selling the service. You have to be excited about what you're providing and to be truly excited, you have to believe in it. You have to believe that what you are doing will make a difference and will provide value....

During this time I developed and implemented a solution called "Natural Testing" at various companies. "Natural Testing" is a specialized natural language interface for business requirements. These requirements can automatically be converted to manual test conditions and cases. Those conditions and cases can be automatically converted to the languages of various automated testing tools. This was directly used by business teams to provide input into test procedures and by the test teams to provide automatic conversion between automated and manual tests. Among other benefits, this significantly reduced the time that regression testing techniques required. This also furthered the use of agile testing practices as well as open source solutions when and where applicable....