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I came to testing in 2026, after fourteen years as the only technical person in a two-person architectural practice. My job there was the building model and everything generated from it (drawings, schedules, quantities) and most of my work was finding where those had stopped agreeing with each other, and why.

I qualified as a software tester in July 2026 and passed ISTQB CTFL in August. Right now I am building a manual testing portfolio around a fictional webshop: a specification review feeds a risk analysis, and the risk analysis decides what gets designed and in what order.

What interests me most is the data underneath an application (validation, migration, reporting) and the kind of failure that does not announce itself.

I am new to this community, mostly here to read and learn. Happy to be pointed at anything worth reading.