Technical Product Management with a focus on the paradigms that build quality into both the engineering process and the Product

What we offer

Product Management

Experience in developing product roadmaps from discovery through to launch, breaking down large problems into small deliverable increments.

We provide expertise in understanding customer needs and championing these in all stages of product development: from ideation and discovery through to launch and support, remaining hands-on with the product.

With an ability to execute a multifaceted role with many different stakeholders, we lead multi-disciplinary teams that follow agile and user-centred design practices.

DevOps Engineering and Cultural Advisory

Closing the gap between infrastructure, networking, software development, quality safety nets, environment management, and delivery. Adoption and coaching of concepts such as “single source of truth”, automation of everything we can, collaborative process including establishing autonomous teams, continuous delivery and cloud engineering infrastructure as code.

Test Development

QFT Australia has extensive experience generating comprehensive automated test coverage on many long-term projects encompassing Swing, Web-Applications (tested on IE, Safari, Firefox, and Chrome), Eclipse apps, and Javaws applications on Windows, Linux, and macOS platforms. 

Whether you have a product requiring automated tests to be run as a safety net against regressions or whether you simply want manual test execution effort to be minimised, a suitable suite of automated tests can be authored and maintained.

Support

Questions or queries, removal of blockers, scripting, continuous integration, debugging, log analysis, reporting and all technical questions can be fielded locally or escalated through to the QF-Test product team directly.

Training

Training in QF-Test is based on the standard training materials supplied by QFS and can be provided in-house or in a web conference setting.

With a decade of experience using the tool, QFT Australia will be able to provide you with the necessary support and training to demonstrate the full set of features QF-Test supplies. Your team will harness the capabilities of QF-Test, allowing you to build quality into your products.

Who we are

About Chris

Chris Stanbridge is a Technical Product Manager, with over 20 years of experience working in the software industry in various roles.

In 2008, Chris was part of a development team managing the automation of the testing safety-net for a multi-million dollar project. An environment scan for a suitable tool led to a successful business case and implementation of QF-Test as the tool of choice. Since then Chris has specialised in developing automated test suites that exercise all of the valuable features that QF-Test provides across multiple projects in a wide array of organisations from telecoms to R&D to ERP.

A personal mandate for the engineering quality process for test implementation is that tests:

• get triggered automatically within a CI/CD pipeline on a code change - whether it be application, infrastructure, security, documentation, or test code.

• have visible results with fast debuggable feedback.

• are change controlled by the same tooling that the software under test is developed in (typically Git), and the tests are bound to the same versioning strategy that the developers use - increment in any code == increment in tests on the same branch.

• belong to the team, not the tester, and thus are maintainable, reusable and transferable.

These simple (but unique amongst peers) concepts led to a career path investigating and becoming a published expert in DevOps concepts, and Agile processes as a Consultancy Practice Lead (including Scrum Master and Product Owner) and ultimately finding a position of best fit in Technical Product Management roles.