BAQC Volunteer Formation Meeting: Notes & Key Decisions

Date: Nov 30, 2025

Time: 09:35 PM

Volunteers: 19

MD Shobuj Miah

Shobuj vaiya started the meeting and shared the following information:

• This is a non-profit community, and volunteers will not financially benefit from this.

• We will arrange bi-weekly knowledge sharing sessions.

• Shobuj vaiya receives a lot of requests from employers to find good SQA talent. With the growth of this community, the amount will only increase. So, we may plan to perform skill assessment and create a CV bank where employers can find the verified talent that they need.

• We may organize testing-related competitions.

• We may publish a magazine every year.

• We may also plan to publish a book with help from the community members.

• We can plan to implement crowdsourced community-based testing for the companies that need it.

• Every community member should provide support and share posts to help grow the community.

• Shobuj vaiya requested everyone to add BAQC to their LinkedIn profiles along with their assigned roles based on today’s session.

Abdul Motaleb

• Thanked everyone for building this community and expressed his appreciation.

• He has 3+ years of experience working in a multinational company.

• He wants to contribute with his manual testing skills.

Shakil Ahmed Sourov

• He has 3+ years of experience in SQA.

• He wants to learn good SQA processes and implement them in his company.

• He wants to contribute with his Selenium Webdriver (Java) skills.

Abu Hurayra

• He has 4.5 years of experience working in a WordPress-focused company.

• He wants to contribute with his skills in security, automation, and overall testing regarding the WordPress ecosystem.

Afia Anjum

• She is a fresher

• She wants to help grow the community, build social media outreach, and develop branding.

Ahnaf Ahmed

• He expressed how he felt the need for a community for SQA professionals.

• He wants to see knowledge-sharing sessions related to SQA processes.

• He wants mentorship from industry experts.

• He wants to contribute with his knowledge of Cypress Automation (JS/TS).

Arifur Rahman Tuhin

• He is a fresher

• He wants to help build the community through social media outreach.

Badhon Parvej

• He has 3 yoe in SQA.

• He wants to see a bug bounty type platform for SQA and software testing.

• He wants to contribute with his skills on Playwright Automation using Python and BDD, Load testing using JMeter.

Manjur Ahmed Chowdhury (Safin)

• He is a fresher.

• He is learning SDLC/STLC.

• He wants to contribute with his manual testing skills and also help grow the community with social media presence.

Mohsin Farabi

• He wants to contribute with his skills on JMeter for load testing, Postman and Selenium with Java.

Nahid Iqbal

• He wants to see industry experts sharing their knowledge in sessions.

• He is learning Playwright with POM.

• He wants to help build the community with social media outreach.

Osama Bin Kalam

• He thanked everyone for the initiative.

• He has 2 yoe working as a manual tester.

• He suggested that we should try to change the perception around SQA in our country.

• He expressed his concerns that companies in our country try to force everyone to do both manual and automation testing and he wants to focus on a specific role.

• He wants to contribute with his skills on manual testing and he wants to help grow social media outreach.

SM Raufuzzaman Ashik

• He is still learning and growing.

• He will contribute to grow the community.

Sabbir Ahmed

• He teaches a couple of his friends about SQA in his free time, and when he learned about this community, he though why not contribute here so that more people can get benefited.

• He suggested that we may share our learning progress in linkedin his hashtags of the comunity.

• He wants to contribute with his skills on manual testing.

Sabina Sultana

• She has taken a 3-month-long training on SQA.

• She felt that the topics/concepts could be explained with small examples.

• She wants to help teach others about what she learned about manual testing.

• She is learning about JavaScript and Playwright.

Sohanur Rahman Sohan

• He has 2 years of experience.

• He expressed his gratitude for this community.

• He wants to grow his skills.

• He wants to learn about the SQA industry, interview processes, etc.

Subhendu

• He is a fresher.

• He wants to help build the community.

Tania Khatun

• She has 2.5 years of experience working in a Dubai-based software company.

• Unfortunately, the company went down recently.

• She wants to learn and share knowledge.

• She has an interest in the interview processes; she has attended a lot of interviews, and she collects interview questions from her peers.

• She wants to help teach interview-related skills.

Tawsif Ahmed

• He is a fresh graduate.

• He shared that when juniors finish a course, they often fall into a loop and lose growth and motivation.

• He hopes that the community will solve these issues.

• He writes blog articles on manual testing.

Final Remarks

• Emails will be sent to all interested contributors.

• A separate WhatsApp group will be created for internal discussions.

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