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Christian Carey shared thisFaisal Khan is leading the transformation of Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering at Benchmark Education Company and Academian Inc. He is passionate about Quality and driving improvements in our team members, the way we do work, and our results. Check out his post and article on AI's role in QA and the importance of continually evolving skills as a professional, which applies to all professions. In the article, Faisal discusses the important role of Humans in the AI equation echoing the philosophy and guiding principles for incorporating AI into our workflows and software features at Benchmark: "Human judgment remains irreplaceable". We are seeing some big early adopters of AI discover this and revisit their personnel plans.Christian Carey shared thisQA has survived every wave of change — from manual testing to automation to AI agents. Not by resisting change, but by redefining its value each time. Here’s my take on how QA keeps moving up the value chain.
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Christian Carey reposted thisChristian Carey reposted thisThe #CASE ecosystem got a huge boost this week. 🙌🏽 Big thanks to the #CASEchampions that we collaborate with: 1EdTech Consortium, PowerSchool, Infinite Computer Solutions,Google, Frog Street, Carnegie Learning, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, SAFARI Montage, The College Board, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Benchmark Education Company, Eduphoria! Inc., Lincoln Learning Solutions, STAR Autism Support, Lennections, EdGate, NUITEQ®, and Instructional Empowerment. 🫶🏽We truly appreciate these innovators for their support of and contributions to the expansion of https://lnkd.in/g9Q_Q2bq Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange® by making learning goals and outcomes visible and interoperable across content & platforms for educators and students! Excited to see what we can dream up next 💡 #interoperability #standards #competencies #edtech
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Christian Carey shared thisExcited to share what we've been doing with AI for teachers and students at Benchmark with Academian next week! #LearningImpact2025 #EdTech #AIinEducation #TeacherTools #ResponsibleAI #1EdTech #AIwithPurposeChristian Carey shared thisAnnouncing Our Session at 1EdTech LearningImpact2025! Join us at #LearningImpact2025 as we explore how AI is being implemented responsibly to solve real challenges in K–12 education. In this session, you’ll learn how AI: - Grading has been successfully accepted at up to 98% by districts - Has reduced teacher workload, improved feedback quality - Provides better test outcomes - Content tagging has led to faster resource discovery - Governance can be made responsible This isn’t future talk — it’s happening now. If you're passionate about building meaningful, scalable change in education through ethical AI, don’t miss this conversation. Let’s shape the future of learning -- together. 1EdTech Consortium Christian Carey Kedar Limaye #EdTech #AIinEducation #K12Leadership #ResponsibleAI #1EdTech #LearningImpact2025 #TeacherTools #AIwithPurpose
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Christian Carey shared thisWe just created an exciting opportunity for someone to establish a team and build a Site Reliability Engineering practice. Come work with some amazing EdTech professionals at Benchmark! #hiring
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Christian Carey shared thisCome and make your mark in EdTech. We are building some great things: https://lnkd.in/gcr4U9qV
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Christian Carey reposted thisChristian Carey reposted thisSeeking K-12 Assessments Platform Sr. Product Manager | Fully remote! https://lnkd.in/gaB75nRG
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Christian Carey shared thisLast year, the Grading Assistant on the Benchmark Universe Platform stood out as a significant accomplishment for our Platform Product, Engineering & Architecture teams. The EdTech and Product Acceleration teams at AWS were instrumental in collaborating and guiding us along the way. Explore the details further at https://lnkd.in/gWdw2vsMBenchmark Education accelerates grading and boosts student feedback with generative AI on AWS | Amazon Web ServicesBenchmark Education accelerates grading and boosts student feedback with generative AI on AWS | Amazon Web Services
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Christian Carey shared thisGreat news for Benchmark! So proud of everyone building the Benchmark Universe platform. Very fortunate to be associated with an outstanding group of EdTech professionals in Platform Product Management, Engineering, and Architecture at Benchmark.Christian Carey shared thisWe're pleased to announce that our digital learning platform, Benchmark Universe, is a winner in this year’s Tech & Learning Awards of Excellence: Best of 2024, within the Primary Education category! Learn more→ https://hubs.ly/Q036pRNH0
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Excellent post, Ashish.
My favorite part of the evolution of Quality Assurance to Quality Engineering is the implication we are thoughtful about engineering quality in to what we do.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." - Benjamin Franklin
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Thanks for sharing, Ashithraj. These are all important regardless of where someone sits in an organization. Building and fostering culture is one of the hardest things to do but the most important to get right.
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Christian Carey liked thisFrom Testing Software to Engineering Quality - My Journey So Far 🚀 When I started my career, my focus was simple: 👉 Find bugs. 👉 Test the application. 👉 Make sure the product works as expected. At that stage, success was largely about my individual contribution. Did I test the feature properly? Did I find the right defects? Did I ensure sufficient coverage? As I gained experience and moved deeper into automation, my thinking gradually started to change. It was no longer just about testing an application. I started thinking about questions like: 🔹 How do we automate this efficiently? 🔹 How do we build something that is maintainable? 🔹 How do we reduce execution time? 🔹 How do we make automation reliable? 🔹 How do we create a framework that can scale as the product and team grow? Over time, my journey evolved from being focused primarily on executing tests to thinking more deeply about the engineering ecosystem around quality. And moving into leadership brought another important shift in perspective. 🚀 My technical depth and experience remain important, but the impact is no longer defined by my individual contribution alone. It also comes from: 🔹 How well I guide the team 🔹 Whether I help set the right engineering direction 🔹 How effectively I help people grow 🔹 How we improve our processes and ways of working 🔹 How consistently the team is able to deliver quality That has probably been one of the biggest changes in my thought process. Earlier, I would primarily ask: “How can I solve this problem?” Today, I often think: “How can we build a system, process, and team that can solve these problems consistently?” For me, that is the real evolution of Quality Engineering. Quality is not just about finding defects. It is about creating the right combination of: ⚙️ Engineering practices 🤖 Automation 📊 Meaningful quality insights 👥 Strong teams 🚀 Faster and reliable feedback After more than 12 years in the industry, I still see myself as someone who is learning and evolving. From manual testing to automation. From building test scripts to thinking about automation architecture. From individual contribution to enabling teams. And now, with AI beginning to reshape software engineering and testing, the journey feels even more exciting. Over the coming weeks, I plan to share more about different stages of this journey - the lessons, challenges, mistakes, and experiences that have shaped how I think about Quality Engineering today. Looking forward to learning and sharing with this community. 🚀 #QualityEngineering #SoftwareTesting #TestAutomation #Leadership #Playwright #AI #AITesting #QualityAssurance #EngineeringLeadership
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Christian Carey liked thisChristian Carey liked thisBuilding a culture of learning doesn't start with a framework. It starts with going back to basics. I've been part of several conversations lately about building culture within teams — a culture of learning, of continuous improvement, of cross-functional collaboration. This post is actually a by-product of one of those conversations. Writing it pushed me to do something I'm not entirely comfortable with — putting my thoughts out publicly — because of my own biases about what "sharing knowledge" should look like. But that discomfort is exactly the point. It took me back to something we've all heard of in Agile: the 3 Amigos. The problem is, most of us have heard the term — but not internalized the principle. It becomes another checklist item instead of a mindset. As someone in Quality Engineering, here's how I've come to see it, at any level of experience: 𝟭. 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 When a user story lands in front of you, shut out the noise. Look at it in isolation — what does this actually mean for the user? Is it even needed? You have Product, Engineering, and Project Management in the same room. Use it. The earlier a gap in the requirement surfaces, the better it is for the entire scrum team — not just QE. 𝟮. 𝗕𝗲 𝗩𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 Say what you think, even if it sounds silly. Being right or wrong isn't the point — being heard is. Voicing your opinion uncovers blind spots, builds your visibility, and earns you credibility over time. Visibility isn't immodesty. It's a signal of how much you care about the work. 𝟯. 𝗔𝘀𝗸 𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 No question is silly — only some answers are. Ask questions of others, and just as importantly, ask them of yourself. Question your own understanding. It's how you fortify what you know instead of assuming you know it. 𝟰. 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 Knowledge doesn't shrink when you give it away — it compounds. The more you share, the sharper you get, and the stronger your team becomes around you. None of this needs a new framework or a fancy rollout plan. It needs people willing to actually practice what the jargon was pointing at all along. Curious to hear — how does your team keep concepts like this from becoming "just another checklist item"? #QualityEngineering #AgileTestimony #3Amigos #ContinuousImprovement #TeamCulture #SoftwareTesting #AgileTeams #LearningCulture #QAEngineer #CrossFunctionalCollaboration #LeadershipInTech
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Christian Carey liked thisChristian Carey liked thisAfter nearly 21 years with Choice Hotels International, including the past nine as President and CEO, today I announced that I am stepping down from my role. Leading Choice Hotels International has been the greatest privilege of my career. Together, we transformed and strengthened the business — expanding our portfolio from 11 to 22 brands, growing our presence in upscale and extended stay, strengthening our international platform, advancing franchisee-focused technology initiatives and building a stronger, more resilient business positioned for long-term growth. Most importantly, I want to thank our associates, franchisees, guests, partners, and shareholders for their trust, support, and partnership over the years. I have full confidence in Dom and the leadership team, and I look forward to continuing to support the company during the transition. Thank you.
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Christian Carey liked thisChristian Carey liked thisThis is not a post to showcase an achievement.. It’s a reminder for all of us who are passionately invested in work, responsibilities, goals, and constant professional growth - that fitness and wellness deserve equal commitment. Over time, I got deeply inspired and received tremendous motivation to build a level of fitness that helped me run for Runs and Miles, an initiative focused on fitness and wellness. And somewhere through this journey, I realized how important it is to intentionally make health a part of our lifestyle - not something we keep postponing. As professionals, we often prioritize meetings, deadlines, deliveries, and growth plans, while our physical and mental well-being quietly moves to the background. But sustainable success is only possible when health grows alongside ambition. Fitness is not about perfection. It is about consistency, discipline, energy, and creating a healthier version of ourselves while continuing to pursue our careers with passion. Let’s continue building successful careers - while also building stronger minds and healthier lives. #Fitness #Wellness #WorkLifeBalance #ProfessionalGrowth #HealthMatters #Leadership #MentalWellbeing #Running #Consistency #SelfDiscipline
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Christian Carey liked thisChristian Carey liked thisI am excited to share that I have joined Choice Hotels International as the Director of Enterprise Architecture. The organization’s collaborative and forward-thinking culture presents an exciting opportunity to contribute, especially as we continue to advance innovation and AI for our customers. We are hiring. If you are passionate about enterprise architecture, innovation, and AI, I welcome the opportunity to connect. https://lnkd.in/gFk8g9V6
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