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	Euro Testing Conf @EuroTestingConf	1h
	Join us in Valencia, Spain for #EuroTestConf 2019 Feb 14-15th. Our amazing keynotes are: Angie Jones (@techgirl1908), Ash Coleman (@AshColeman30), Sarah Wells (@sarahjwells) and Sal Freudenberg (@SalFreudenberg). Ticket sales have started; get yours now! ti.to/ETC/ETC19
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 18
	Replying to @adgad @simonleggsays Am I forgiven for persuading you? I’m certain you absolutely nailed it!
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	Carmen Polcaro @CarmenPolcaro	Oct 17
	Software is everywhere, so it's software testing and quality assurance. Arjun Gadhia at #qatest2018 shows us how they manage quality and performance of the website at the Financial Times...without breaking anything. pic.twitter.com/sKetEKgRe2
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 18
	Really captures the experience of trying to nail a performance issue! twitter.com/KKoschland/sta…
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 17
	Replying to @avideitcher @kubernetesio I did! And about once a week someone lets me know, which is also lovely!
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @andreagrandi @bruntonspall and 2 others Feels definitely a cultural difference - in the UK ‘engineer’ isn’t protected in that way.
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @unixdaemon @bruntonspall I’d be interested to know more on those different expectations! That’s a whole other area though.
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @bruntonspall We have rarely changed people’s job titles in the past for exactly that reason - we normally change the titles in job specs and career paths. So that gradually things change.
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @lizthegrey I feel like what I do is software engineering rather than software development - and hopefully includes that wider view. We have a mix of titles currently. It’s interesting that ‘Principal Developer’ doesn’t seem to be a thing!
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @bruntonspall So I’m actually not looking at differentiating... I’m trying to work out if we can sensibly converge onto one or the other. i.e. we have a mix. Are they genuinely different things?
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @mikemoate That makes sense to me, although interestingly we’re pretty mixed up with titles currently and it does *not* quite line up like that!
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @TomWade I’m genuinely interested because people feel strongly in both directions. I have this vague feeling that as a new developer, ‘engineer’ might have intimidated me (I did a conversion course and felt I wasn’t hardcore enough for quite a while)
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @alexstapleton yes, I agree completely on that. And I hope we show off our culture appropriately in our job ads, among other things.
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @TomWade I'm a back end developer, but not hardware level. I feel like I engineer systems, just as much as I develop. But I have to say my instinctive bias is towards Developer. But I was a Principal Engineer, not Principal Developer...
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @teemuvesala @maaretp I think there may be some cultural differences - someone else up-thread said that 'engineer' is a more protected term outside the UK. I'm UK based. Interestingly, I never hear 'Principal Developer' - seems like everywhere that has that role it's 'Principal Engineer'
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @sneakybeaky Yep - I think the job spec is probably more important in getting across what we expect from the role. In my experience, there's a lot of variance between job titles that look exactly the same
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @mpkhosla Yep - we've definitely starting talking about 'T-shaped engineers', and that includes people with a quality focus as well as developers and those with great sys admin skills.
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @sneakybeaky Interesting - I do think what I do covers a lot more than development. I feel more a Software Engineer than a Software Developer. But I wonder if it could put some people off, because it assumes a wider range of expertise?
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @karnauskas True. Consider Software Engineering vs Software Development then, because Software Engineering is definitely a thing that exists!
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	Sarah Wells @sarahjwells	Oct 16
	Replying to @alexstapleton I think software engineering covers what I do far more than software development. But I worry about 'engineer' feeling like you need more expertise to do it.
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