>> I love the fact that I get to break stuff, and as a tester, you know, and a test manager,
myself and my team, we get to really just shoot holes in things.
So the destructive little kid in me gets to break things and slam thousands of users
on an application and see if it's going to fall, fall over or not,
and so that's one thing that I really enjoy.
The other thing that I really enjoy is just being in a quality assurance function is
that I really feel like what we do actually has an impact on the people who use the software
that we're making because we want to make sure that it is indeed quality
and that it does function the way it's supposed to and it functions in an efficient fashion,
and it performs well so that our customers get the right impression of our brand.
So some of the challenges are usually related around timelines.
You know, the work that we do tends to be at the last part of a schedule of a project, and so,
you know, you can't really test something
until it's already been created, developed, and enhanced.
So the testing always happens towards the end, and usually there's a committed date
that it's going to be delivered, and so we're always squeezed at the end
to get our work done faster and get it better, and so, you know, managing timelines
and getting a valuable product out of what we're doing in the amount of time
that we're given is pretty challenging