Susanne Abdelrahman (she/her)

I love going outside for my daily iced coffee and having it transform into a coffee frappuccino

Using someone else’s computer is like cooking in someone else’s kitchen.

Everything is kind of the same but it still just feels weird.

My CSA just put out a call for donations of money to buy fresh produce at a bulk discount to provide bags of fresh food to families losing SNAP benefits.

Ask yours if they could do the same.

Fake ABC ad: At the request of the president, Abbott Elementary is white now

Just about spit out my coffee when I saw this in my morning newspaper @theonion.com

So sad to hear that Diane Keaton passed 😢 this one hurts just as much as Robin Williams and Anthony Bourdain 💔

Spider sitting in the center of a large web covered in dewdrops, hanging under a roof. Brightly painted wood panels in red, purple, pink, green, blue, and yellow are visible behind the web.

Coming up for air after a busy summer +
wrapping up my first 2 weeks at my new job 🎉

Getting it all down in a blog post soon (🤞) until then, here’s a cool photo I just took of a spider web covered in rain drops against the garage shingles that my kids are painting 😍

Minimum Viable Caring: When Efficiency Costs Us Efficiency drives speed, but at what cost? Some inefficiencies are waste, others hold hidden value and worth protecting.

I saw a feel-good story recently about football players visiting sick kids via robot. It was sweet, for sure. But also.... not?

New post up: theproductmindedqa.com/minimum-viab...

Slightly diminish a band:

Car Halen

This one made me actually lol

Slightly diminish a band:

Matchbox 19

Gosh, it feels good to be back in SF again

excited for a future where I'm simultaneously not-dead-enough to be allowed to have a miscarriage, yet not-alive-enough to keep my own heart and lungs

RSVP to Software Testing Summer Social | Partiful Hey SF/Bay Area testers! 🍻 Ready to debug your social life? Join us for craft brews, new connections, and great conversations. Your co-hosts Susanne Abdelrahman and Tristan Lombard are bringing the co...

SF/Bay Area testers: I’ll be in town next week ✨ If you're around, come hang out!

@tristanlombard.bsky.social and I are hosting a lowkey meetup for some irl connection. Come solo or bring a friend!

📍 San Francisco
📅 Thursday, Aug 14, 6–8pm
partiful.com/e/vC4tmRhHB3...

“A family!! Of birds!!”

Y’all. I died 😂😭🤣🤦‍♀️

“Yeah!!” he says, nodding and staring intently in the same direction he’s pointing.

As we’re driving on the highway, my 6yo points and yells “mom, look there’s a whole family on that roof!”

Kind of concerned? I screen the rooftops where he’s pointing and make sure, because I can’t find anyone: “a family??”

The Criminal Enterprise Run by Monkeys A cabal of furry thieves snatch iPhones and other valuables from visitors to a temple in Bali–and trade them for mangos

Timeline cleanse? 😆

burt's shrimp lip balm parody ad in an onion newspaper

really appreciating the onion as physical media.

“What drugs are you guys on? Smaller doses please” will now be my default response to so many things 😂😭🙏

When Quality Work Doesn't Land (And Other Things I’ve Been Thinking About) New MoT article, great reads on metrics, gender-inclusive accessibility, and testing leadership, and internet rabbit holes worth falling into.

Post + links: theproductmindedqa.com/when-quality...

Have been watching @ministryoftesting.com's Leading With Quality convos too. @jennydoesthings.bsky.social's energy is contagious! And her push for QA leadership community really stuck with me.

Read the latest Testing Experience magazine, @lisacrispin.bsky.social's article on how to *not* use metrics was very relevant, and @the-qa-guy.bsky.social's article on gender & accessibility testing is one every tester should read.

Between summer chaos, family travel, and interviews (2 this week! 🤞) I finally had time to write a little catch-up on my blog ✨

Yay?

I’d love to know what this brings up for y'all! Especially if you’ve been the first QA hire on a team or helped make that hire and seen it go sideways 🫠

When hiring software testers doesn't work (and what to do BEFORE you hire them) Find out what’s really behind testing hires that fail (hint: it’s rarely because the tester couldn’t handle the job!)

I unpack this (and what teams that *do* get value from QA do differently) in my article on @ministryoftesting.com: When hiring software testers doesn't work (and what to do BEFORE you hire them)

(It’s a free read - no membership required.)

Meme of a cartoon character holding a broom and shouting enthusiastically, with the text “AUTOMATE ALL THE THINGS!” — parodying overenthusiastic automation culture.

When teams hire QA folks hoping for quick quality wins without also making room for quality work to *actually* work, it’s not surprising when "moar automation" doesn’t add up to real quality.

I saw a LinkedIn post not too long ago about a startup CEO who believed hiring QA folks “does more harm than good”.

I’ve seen enough to know that sometimes, he's right. Just not for the reasons he thinks.

If you encounter one of these in software hiring and you want me to look into it... I'm down

The real mindfuck is not knowing if people are dead serious or using the term clanker ironically.