A testing job market: MoT Weekly – Issue 490

What's going on with the testing job market right now? Join events and discover many ways to contribute and learn with the testing, QA and quality engineering community in this week's MoT Weekly.

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What's been happening in the testing, QA and quality engineering community? Let's go! 🏍️

I hope you have a great week. 

— Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing

 

Community

Meetups are go! Head to the Coventry Meetup on December 5th. Speaker: Stu Day. Hosted at Sainsbury's offices and sponsored by Xpertise Recruitment. And there are two new Meetup groups to join: London and Barcelona. Plus, Rogério Castro and Nuno Ramos take over the rebranded MoT Porto. 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇵🇹

Via the MoT Slack, kudos to Nic Furniss and the Test Team at the Co-op. They delivered internal 99-second talks sharing key takeaways from TestBash.

Bug congrats to Gabbi Trotter for 9 years at Searchability. 🎂

Christine Pinto celebrates another Epic Test Quest milestone. Go Christine!

What's happening at The Testing Planet Episode 6: The Apprentice? Register today for this free online event on Thursday the 24th of October. Learn about testing, interviews, and onboarding. 🪐

Introduce or reintroduce yourself on this thread. Say hi and connect with the community.

Rahul Parwal celebrates his MoT Community Certificate. 🤩

 

Career Growth 

New roles

Now hiring

  • Maryam Umar and Booking.com are hiring a Test Engineer. Available on the MoT Jobs Board

Are you open to work? Help us get a sense for the QA and software testing employment market.

How do you document your impact at work? asks Cassandra.

Software testing salaries are trending downwards. 📉

Add to this The Club post. Have job titles evolved over the years?

Sanne, Shey, Chris, Veerle and Hanna chat about the job market, via 9 out of 10 testers.

 

Automation

Bug congrats to Panagiotis Megremis, Vu Duy Vu Manh, Ross Aubrey-Smith, James Perry and James Wadley for earning MoT Certificates in Test Automation. 🏆

What do you use to verify you're on the correct page in an automated test? asks Nate Bosscher. 

Mike Harris encourages you to make your Playwright tests run faster by using the Playwright API to wait by.

 

Accessibility

What makes an image viewer accessible? Key features for inclusive and user-friendly image viewers by Scout Burghardt.

"I tried an amazing plugin for accessibility testing in Cypress, and it was unlike anything I’ve seen in my career. Accessibility testing is becoming more powerful and effective than ever before!" – Petros Plakogiannis.

 

Models

"People often use an older version of the [Agile Testing] Quadrants. My motivation for this post is to share the latest version, the one we included in our book Agile Testing Condensed." – Lisa Crispin.

 

Systems Thinking

Practicing systems thinking to improve your software testing by Konstantinos Konstantakopoulos. Discover how everyday systems thinking can be harnessed to improve your testing approach.

 

Heuristics

Here's a handy list to cover the accented characters heuristic. Thanks to Shey Crompton and Chris Kinofrost.

 

Risk

Stuart Thomas describes how to prioritise based on risk. I like this a lot. It's simple and effective.

 

Reporting

What does your QA reporting matrix look like in an Agile setup? asks Rosanna Agustin.

 

Quality Engineering

Is quality engineering just software engineering? 🌶️

 

Meetings

Four questions to review / have conversations with your team by Melissa Fisher.

Half of testers are not inviting themselves to meetings!

 

Feedback

Quality Experience: Thoughts on Feedback by Judy Mosley. 📝

 

Bugs

What is the most frequent source of general system issues that look like defects in your product’s code? asks Rabi'a.

 

Security

Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer.

 

Tech Debt

"Not all tech debt is equally bad – some is unlikely to be a problem at all". Tech debt as risk of friction by Bob Salmon.

 

Coding

A short description of recursion by Madeline Caples.

 

AI

Jarsto van Santen shared thoughts on AI via this Q&A TestBash video.

 

Microservices Testing

Microservices Testing: Feature Flags vs. Preview Environments by Arjun Iyer.

 

Just for fun

Another test pyramid! We must acknowledge the hierarchy of our needs. 😉

Close Ad Button. 🙈

 

Were you part of TestBash Brighton? Share a memory

Looking down on crowds of people gathered around displays from companies in the testing community. There appears to be lots going on. There is a small bug character and duck character immersed in the scene.

 

🗓️ Events

New events are always added, so keep checking the events page for up-to-date info.

 

🗞️ Industry News

 

✏️ Continuous Call for Contributions


Contributing to the testing community is a positive way to support your and everyone’s career growth. Unsure how to do it? There are many ways for you to contribute and be rewarded.

We are now accepting abstracts for talks and workshops for TestBash Brighton 2025. Submit an idea.

On the MoT Slack? Look out for specific requests in the Help MoT channel.

 

A poll asking "Are you open to work?" with two options: "Yes" (81%) and "No" (19%).

Poll of the Week

Simon Tomes
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Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
Hello, I'm Simon. I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching since 2003. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community.
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