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Discover SmartQA with Ash & Zoe

Gain deeper insight into the new way of assuring.

A 30-day journey: 23 weekday emails, each anchored in one SmartQA practice, with Zoe as your coach and assessor helping you discover it.

23 SmartQA practicesOne email each weekdayBaseline and closing assessmentZoe as coach and assessor
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The shift

Upfront clarity. Accelerate with certainty.

Testing was human.Focus shifted to automation.Now AI is everywhere.

As AI makes answers abundant, value shifts to the craft of asking. Probing, aka prompt engineering (framing objectives and constraints with curiosity, critical thinking and domain expertise), draws out the best solutions from our AI partners. As OpenAI’s Sam Altman put it: “Figuring out what questions to ask will be more important than figuring out the answer.”

For test practitioners eyeing the next leap, this 30-day journey sharpens your mindset, deepens awareness, and equips you to thrive in an AI-driven testing world.

Program outcome

Gain deeper insight into the new way of assuring

Across the 23 practices, you build nine qualities of smart assurance.

Clarity

Understand the what, why and how

Logic

Structured thinking and sound reasoning

Purposefulness

Clear intent and meaningful focus

Business value

Linking work to real outcomes

Alignment

Goals, plans and effort in sync

Guarantee

Confidence in actions and results

Optimality

Doing just enough for maximum impact

Depth

Going beyond the surface with critical thinking

Adaptability

Evolving with changing context

How it works

Five weeks, one practice each weekday

Start with a baseline assessment, then one email each weekday. Each week takes a theme; each day’s practice arrives in your inbox.

  1. •Start

    Take stock

    A 20-question baseline assessment of your current testing practice.

  2. 1Week 1

    Rethink quality

    Where quality comes from, and what testing is for. 5 practices.

  3. 2Week 2

    Know your role and context

    Zoom out: what is expected of you, what you are testing, and what success means. 5 practices.

  4. 3Week 3

    Probe and design

    From understanding to designing: clear specs, deep probing and purposeful approaches. 5 practices.

  5. 4Week 4

    Design and test with depth

    Doing the testing itself with depth, presence and purpose. 5 practices.

  6. 5Week 5

    Measure and improve

    Do you measure, judge and improve what really matters? 3 practices.

  7. •Finish

    See the shift

    Retake the same assessment and compare it with your baseline.

Each daily email, in four parts

1 · Reflect & AnalyseQuestions on your own recent work
2 · Expand & SharpenAsh’s perspective on the practice
3 · Do & StrengthenA small task, then Discover with Zoe in doSmartQA
4 · Realise & DiscoverThe insight to take away

Designed by Ash, the human behind SmartQA. Facilitated by Avani. With Zoe, your Smart Assurance co-pilot.

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