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Stop the blame, keep the learning - Natalia Romanska

Software Testing Unleashed · 2026-03-26 · 27 min

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self-awarenessQuality assurancelearning from failuressoftware testingqa career development

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Why your biggest professional mistakes might be your most valuable teachers Free e-book: The 7 success factors of software testing. 25 years of project experience in one 33-page workbook, now also in English Get it for free "I can make mistakes. I will be doing mistakes in the future. That's not something that we can just skip and forget." - Natalia Romanska In this episode, I talk with Natalia Romanska about why our biggest professional disasters often teach us more than our polished success stories. She shares how a 70,000 złoty accounting mistake early in her career forced her to develop the self-awareness that now guides her QA work - and why that painful learning stuck harder than any training ever could. We dig into the uncomfortable truth that testers rarely talk about: the gap between knowing we should learn from failures and actually sitting down to extract those lessons. Natalia offers concrete practices for turning blame into growth, from the "magic five whys" to building feedback loops that don't just stroke our egos. Once an accountant, Natalia Romanska is now a QA.

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