4. Andrei Conțan, RTC co-founder, tester & triathlete: What happens when we start acting like professional athletes

"A professional athlete spends 7-8 hours a day training, identifying the weak points and engaging in deliberate practice to improve their skills. I don’t see that much happening in the IT space”, says Andrei Conțan, our content manager, co-founder and organizer of the Romanian Testing Conference. At Shift Happens Podcast, Andrei shared for the first time how he finds his inspiration in sports and transfers his learnings in the testing space from organizing Romanian Testing Conference to TestingScool trainings and performing testing work for international companies. “My impact in the testing industry is about making clear that testing is a profession, a set of abilities that we all can build upon and have a successful professional career as testers. We are here, after 13 RTC editions trying to send the same message, that testing is a profession, is something that you can be very successful from and that’s a message that we barely can find in the IT space and we feel like we are building the community and a niche to propagate this message”, admits Andrei Conțan, one of the co-founders of the Romanian Testing Conference and our adrenaline junkie. Alex Mocioi is our Host for the SHIFT Happens Podcast at the Romanian Testing Conference - a professional with 20 years of experience in software engineering and 10 years of experience in tech training. Shift Happens podcast is supported by Nagarro.