Roq and Role

From Recruiting to Onboarding

5 May 2023  |  12 mins 30 secs

Talent Acquisition Manager, Sean Gray talks to Steven about his recent whitepaper and some of his top tips for other internal tech team recruiters.

Community Ambassadors

14 March 2023  |  23 mins 27 secs

Episode 1: Chasing The Giant Rabbit: A Tale of Software, Automation and Outsize Bunnies

9 November 2022  |  41 mins 23 secs

On Wednesday 6th March 2019, Roq delivered the webinar – Chasing the Giant Rabbit: A Tale Of Software, Automation And Outsize Bunnies.

Matthew Riddiough Boylan - Ex-Forces - Test Manager

29 September 2022  |  20 mins 25 secs

careers, culture, people, software testing, talent, testing, values

This week we chat with Matthew, a ROQ Test Manager with a military background.

Junaid and Fred - Academy Consultants

19 August 2022  |  19 mins

Sean Gray - Talent Acquisition Specialist

13 May 2022  |  11 mins 5 secs

careers, culture, people, software testing, talent, testing, values

ROQ and Role is the brand new podcast, hosted by ROQ Career Support Manager, Steven Knowles, interviewing a variety of ROQ colleagues from all roles, backgrounds and expertise. The podcast series aims to give you a flavour of what it’s like to work for ROQ as well as explore how some of our guests got in to their careers in testing. Steven will also cover some technical aspects of the testing world, in addition to some softer, wacky and fun questions.

Umer Khalid - Lead Automation Engineer

11 April 2022  |  14 mins 23 secs

careers, software testing, test automation, testing

This episode focusses on Lead Automation Engineer, Umer Khalid, who joined ROQ last year and has a wealth of experience to share with you.

Steve Nattrass - Senior Test Analyst

25 March 2022  |  12 mins 25 secs

careers, making software work, roq, roq and role, software testing, testing

This episode focusses on Senior Test Analyst, Steve Nattrass, who joined ROQ 9 years ago and has a wealth of experience to share with you. From testing to charity work, boiled eggs and beyond, no stone goes unturned in episode 3 of ROQ and Role

Sophie and Amira - ROQ Academy Consultants

4 March 2022  |  12 mins 2 secs

careers, making software work, roq, roq and role, software testing, test automation, test engineering, testing

This episode focusses on the lives of ROQ Academy Consultants Sophie and Amira, who joined ROQ in October last year through ROQ's Test Engineering Academy Programme.

Steve Mellor - Test Architect

17 February 2022  |  13 mins 4 secs

careers, software testing, test architect, test automation, testing

Steven Knowles interviews ROQ Test Architect, Steve Mellor on his current role, overall career in software testing, how he finds working at ROQ, and much more!

Seven Ingredients to Software Releases

31 July 2018  |  18 mins 29 secs

qa, quality, software, software projects, software releases, software testing, testing

In this pilot episode, host Jemma Cawood is joined by ROQ founder Mark Bargh to discuss the seven key areas where a lack of attention can cause your project or programme to fail catastrophically. Discussing what we as quality professionals can do to avert these disasters and deliver successfully.