First Week At QA Academy

 

After a hectic week of finding a place to stay in Salford and one last five hour coach journey from Leicester, my home town, I had officially moved into my temporary home and ready for my first day at QA academy.

The thought of my first day in a “real life” office was daunting, as I slowly made my way up five flight of stairs. As soon as I entered the office I saw a few familiar faces from the assessment day which put me at ease. After meeting a few more people we were taken into our “classroom”, where after a brief introduction we got straight into the training course starting with a lecture on ‘Enterprise Architecture’. We were put into groups and were given the task to come up with a team name, we went for “PEAKAT” which was basically the first letter of all our names put together (very creative, I know). My thoughts after the end of the first day as a QA Trainee was, “this feels like being at first year of uni all over again”, and that was great! PEAKAT then decided to meet up and have dinner at the Dockyard to end the day (PS the Mexican bean burger may taste nice but a cheeky nandos is still my favourite).

On the second and third day of training we were introduced to a fictional company that required consultancy services from us. I really like the way QA academy have structured their training to incorporate the theoretical knowledge of Enterprise Architecture as well as allowing the trainees to get first hand experience in the tasks involved when providing consultancy services. I personally prefer developing software over the business interactions but this process has already taught me a lot about Enterprise Architecture.

Thursday was full of interviews, where I ended up picking the worst two people to interview, Kitty the flirty intern and Chris the angry team manager. It was a weird but an entertaining experience, feel sorry for Elliot who was role playing Kitty’s part. After work a few trainees decided to go to the depot climbing centre, where I found out i’m naturally talented at rock climbing.

Thank god it’s Friday! A day full of just catching up on work and moaning about how tiring working 9-5 everyday is, especially when you’re used to waking up at 12pm instead of 7am. I feel like writing a blog without any reference to pool would be a crime. To be completely honest I am probably the worst pool player from the group but still managed to win three out of the four games i’ve played, got to love flukes!

This week was full of lots of new experiences and I have learnt a lot about myself, one being my blogging skills are terrible and I look forward to other adventures QA academy brings. :D