Build real testing expertise, with someone who knows the path.
You want to move forward as a tester, test manager, or team, not just tick off certifications. Software Test Mentoring accompanies you or your team over six or twelve months: specific, continuous, combining coaching and consulting.
Mentoring for Testers and Teams
Individual or Team
The mentoring works for individuals just as well as for entire teams. Whether you want to grow personally as a test manager or your whole test team wants to build testing competence together, both formats work. Context decides, not a fixed structure.
6 or 12 Months
Real development takes time. No two-day workshop that fades three weeks later. The mentoring runs over six or twelve months: enough time to spot patterns, try new things, and make changes that actually stick.
Coaching Meets Consulting
Sometimes you need reflection: what's holding you back? What do you actually want? Sometimes you need concrete methods: which test strategy fits? How do you write good test cases? The mentoring combines both, depending on the situation.
How the Mentoring Works
Four steps. No overhead. No bureaucratic noise.
- 1
Getting to Know Each Other
In a free initial conversation, we look together at where you or your team currently stand, where you want to go, and whether mentoring is the right format for that. Not a sales pitch. An honest conversation.
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Building the Mentoring Plan
Based on the initial conversation, we develop a concrete plan with topics and milestones. For individuals, tailored to your specific goals. For teams, aligned with the team's actual challenges.
- 3
Regular Sessions
Every two to four weeks, we meet online. You or your team brings current topics. We work on solutions, next steps, and concrete actions, using coaching questions where reflection helps, using consulting where methods are needed.
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Implement and Stay the Course
Between sessions, you put things into practice. And I'm reachable when something gets stuck, not just at the next meeting. What doesn't work, we talk through. What works, we build on. That's the difference from a course.
For Individuals and Entire Teams
That can be an individual: a tester who wants to move toward test automation. A QA engineer growing into a test manager role. A freelancer in testing who wants to strengthen their foundation.
But it can just as well be a team: a test team that develops a new test strategy together. Or a development team that wants to build testing competence because quality has been an afterthought.
Software testers. QA engineers. Test managers. Test teams. Development teams with a testing gap. If one of these paths is yours, mentoring is the right frame.
Two Hats That Work Well Together
When a team isn't moving forward because the test strategy is unclear, a concrete method recommendation helps. That's consulting. When a test manager keeps getting stuck in the same patterns, making those patterns visible helps. That's coaching.
In the mentoring, I don't decide in advance which hat to put on. I listen, look, and choose what's needed right now. Most of the time, it's a combination.
25 years of testing experience. Certified systemic coach. Both come into play.
The first step
is a conversation.
No application process. No sales pitch. A short, honest initial conversation, for you alone or for your whole team, and we'll know whether mentoring is the right fit.
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