Just learned that my old manager managed himself out of a job and got his team dissolved lol. He did this by pursuing the purchase of several expensive and useless technologies then pushing his team to use and learn them. Putting tons of timebucket hours into them instead of actual projects. Thinking it would provide massive returns. Apparently the return was so terrible that that department shifted his team's duties onto a bunch of Business Analysts and said fuck it. We don't need that QA team anyway just make the analysts do it.
He is one of those people where you at first think he's pretty smart. But as you learn about your role and the projects you were working on you quickly realize that he has absolutely no idea what he is talking about to the point of batshit insanity. Then it becomes annoying to even talk to him because he brings up a bunch of shit that is completely irrelevant but sounds technically deep if you're not familiar with the context.
He emailed me a, "report card" on some automation I designed for him and gave me a D- one time. Complete with red highlighter crap everywhere. I kept it because it was hilarious. I'll post it in here if I remember. But anyway, this automation would run a bunch of tests and calculate response times and transaction volumes then spit out an excel sheet comparing them to requirements if you set it up for that. I arbitrarily set up a 20% over under range on transaction volume. So it would show green if it was within that range and red if not.
The red would not mean a failure really just that it was outside of the target range I chose just for debugging mostly. He was using this tool and then explained to the owners for this project that the red was a critical failure or some shit. Product owners then became concerned but he couldn't explain what the red was even for. Just that it was super critical halt all development. Then tried to chew me out for being incompetent.
His report card showed an alarming misunderstanding not only of project requirements but of the project and it's functions itself. Total batshit crazy.
I need to ask my old teammembers if they're getting shuffled around or let go. I hope just shuffled around. If they are laid off it will 100% be that guy's fault.
If anyone cares the tools in question are:
- CA tools. This company just laid off 50% of their workforce.
- The Performance monitoring tool was garbage. It did look pretty though and had a few cool and useful features. But the overall setup was lipstick on a pig.
- Some weird flowchart looking thing. You were supposed to use it to make test cases in a flow chart form. Then it would, or could, spit out method stubs for selenium automation and create a really nice history of exactly what it was doing for business analysts to look at. Assuming you got the workflow built correctly in the flowchart thing. Which was very fickle.
- Accelatis - A performance testing tool that is designed only to work on Hyperion. Which by default makes it stupid since Loadrunner with all its faults is leagues ahead of every other performance tool Jmeter being the only other one you would ever need to use.
I don't know how much CA shit cost. But Acceltais has a $500k pricetag. The guy I know who was supposed to use it was a performance engineer with like 8 years experience and really good at it. He couldn't get it to work with any of the hyperion projects correctly and just went back to using Loadrunner.
