Baking quality into the fast lane

Hi there. I'm Rosie Sherry, and I'm your MoTaverse Weekly host.

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👩🏽‍🍳 Baking quality into the fast lane - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 12 — Megan Ozanne

Explore the widening gap between software development at the speed of AI and core quality engineering principles.

💻 Creating a resilient test framework with the Playwright Page Object Model (POM) — Shawn Vernier

Implement the Playwright Page Object Model (POM) to build maintainable, resilient test suites by centralizing page interactions and separating them from test logic.

🎨 System design interview for test engineers — Sarah Al-Hawi

Learn how system design concepts can be applied to test engineering.

😊 Finding joy in your role — Heleen Van Grootven and Simon Tomes

The way software development works is uniquely suited to neurodivergence

👣 From manual to automated: a tester’s journey into AI — Emily O'Connor, Shawn Vernier and Jonathan Cole

Master the RICCE framework to transition from manual testing to AI-augmented automation by leveraging structured prompting and the Playwright MCP agent ecosystem.

🎙️ SQEC ready. Pair ready. Glosssary ready — TWiQ Ep 130

With SQEC now fully live, the community swaps stories about new roles, flaky tests, accessibility audits, and why shared language, pairing, and “being the duck” can make quality work easier.

⏱️ 20% AI time - Rosie Sherry

I've been thinking about AI a lot more lately. Andrew Easter's story of moving quickly with AI-driven development and the starting of the AI Chapter has given me more food for thought of committing to AI.

🧠 Human skills matter more in the age of AI noise — Rahul Parwal and Simon Tomes

How do we sharpen our ability to stay connected with real experts?

🗺️ What support did you find most helpful during the transition from Manual to Automation Tester? — Preeti Gupta

Walking alone in the journey is a bit difficult but it becomes easy if we have some support, motivation and encouragement.

❓ AMA about transitioning to Quality Assistance model — Nataliia Burmei

Ways of working is often fascinating topic to explore. While I was moving from quality assurance to quality assistance, I didn't expect it would change the way I work as tester. Once implemented correctly, it creates a space and mental capacity for testers to do creative, innovative work while delegating day-to-day work to engineers. It helps to expand your horizons, think about outside of the box and eventually grow your skills and career.

🛑 Stop shaming yourself into doing more—it won't work — Helen Van Groovten

Recently, I had the great pleasure of doing a Call for Insights with Simon Tomes, where I got to talk about having ADHD and some of the ways I was able to structure my work around my brain. Here's one aspect I wanted to expand upon a little more.

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