--- title: Testing Beyond Your Project url: https://www.qatouch.com/qa-masterclass/testing-beyond-your-project/ published: 2025-03-20T14:12:15+00:00 modified: 2025-03-26T13:03:05+00:00 author: Sridhar K post_type: page word_count: 551 reading_time_minutes: 3 --- # Testing Beyond Your Project # Testing Beyond Your Project June 10, 2021 – 3.00 pm CET Emna is a passionate software tester and detail-oriented who loves to analyze root causes, test, collaborate with diverse people, and investigate issues. She has 5 years of experience on different projects combined with testing and coaching roles. She appreciates delivering workshops about testing for her team and the local community to make them aware of different trends in software testing and organizer “Ministry of Testing” meetups at Sfax, Tunisia. She blogs regularly on her blog [emnaayadi.com](http://emnaayadi.com/). She also co-authored the “21st Century skills for testers” ebook. Outside of work, traveling is her favorite pastime, but when everyone works from home, the hobby becomes traveling via food @emnafoodies. ![](https://www.qatouch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Emna-Ayadi.png) ### Emna Ayadi Test Coach, Speaker & MoT Meetup Organizer Testing is a challenging job but let’s not forget that it can be fun too. We know that as “Testers,” you love being creative at your work. Each one of you wants to learn new techniques, new ways of testing, explore more applications in different business fields. Indeed, it’s a fun-filled journey. Some of you find that leaving your organization can help develop more skills as a tester by discovering new projects, dealing with new tools, new languages. We just can’t ignore this fact. But what if you stay at the same organization while it’s already challenging, try to learn more different ways and practice them with other testers in the world, and then try to implement them at your workplace and share them with your team to improve your way of testing. In the upcoming QA Masterclass #12, you will learn how to gamify each style of testing, be it small or big, simple or complicated. Let’s cheer every practice, every effort to better our testing communities, and more cheers to our challenges that make us shine every day. Come and learn different activities you can do outside of your working hours to make you a brilliant tester. The only criteria – you need to be generous to share and receive from others. In this session, Emna focuses on all the things you can do outside your daily projects not related to testing but could improve the tester’s mindset and skill set. ### So, what will you learn from this session? - Different activities that strengthen test communities - The skills needed for the modern tester - How to learn from your everyday life and apply it in the field of testing - Software testing related games plus the link with fun and learning ### Show Notes 4.36 – How can Testers Survive in an Agile Environment?4.56 – Testing Manifesto5.37 – What are the required skills for the Testers?7.21 – What different activities can you do outside of working hours that make you a better Tester?9.02 – Creativity10.59 – Explore13.30 – Sketchnoting14.26 – Continuous Learning14.32 – Learn UX – CX and PO15.33 – Books for Testers17.52 – Blogging19.26 – Racket.com22.50 – Collaboration26.00 – Join or Create Community26.45 – What is a community of practice27.17 – Sense of Community30.00 – Gamify Testing30.32 – Gathering members to establish a test strategy36.31 – Mindfulness and meditation37.54 – Find your focus38.42 – T-Shaped Software Tester40.54 – How to update yourself to become a better Tester?43.02 – What factors should be considered when choosing a Test Management tool and Project Management tool?45.57 – How make a switch to the QA profession?49.56 – How to start QA as a Tester?52.33 – Suggestion on QA books for freshers ### Show Links Follow [Emna Ayadi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/emnaayadi/) on LinkedInHer E-book 21st Century Skills for Testers[Ministry of Testing Sfax](https://www.meetup.com/ministry-of-testing-sfax/)