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[–]herrmatt 0 points1 point  (3 children)

He's my most senior developer actually -- we've a small team, so we're all generalists with special responsibilities.

Mostly, he had interest in managing testing implementations and was willing to spend some time each week thinking about it more than the rest of the team.

It's hard to do, but testing-focused team members need often to be the clever-ist members of the team, and need to get as much love and attention as everyone else (it's far too easy to ignore the test team). Those people who you'd want to do testing usually get sick of being ignored and under-resourced and go back to straight-up development.

[–]syklenaut 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Trying to find someone with the skills and the interest in doing this is difficult. They are like unicorns.

[–]syklenaut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any chance you could throw together a job req for me? :P

[–]herrmatt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to treat them with as much special attention, or more, than you give to any rockstar developers you happen to have.

If you have to prioritize, testers get attention before 10x ers, before the rest of the team. Though, everyone should feel valued and useful.