Quality people in the MoTaverse have influence and impact

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All the talks from MoTaCon, previously TestBash, 2025

Talks about quality engineering careers & leadership, testing practices & mindsets, AI & tool evaluation and more. Featuring Elizabeth Zagroba, Barry Ehigiator, Martin Hynie, Ady Stokes, Scott Kenyon, Ben Dowen, Cassandra H. Leung, Joep Schuurkes, Demi Van Malcot, Philippa Jennings, Carlos Kidman, Isabel Evans, Jitesh Gosai, Kulas Angeles, Stuart Thomas plus many more who took to the 99 Second Talk stage. Watch today.

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Curiosity killed the chat - Ep 109

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Parveen Khan – Quality > Test Automation

Lead the change from automation-focused testing to holistic quality engineering that benefits everyone.

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Moving fast and breaking things? Build reliable software from day one instead

Focus on smart testing, risk reduction, and team habits that prevent firefighting to build reliable software from the start. By Ishalli Garg.

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Share a scary quality story

For TWiQ (This Week in Quality) this week, we’re going to be on theme for Halloween, and we’re looking to talk about scary quality stories. Add to the thread.

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Leading With Quality Lean Coffee

In the MoTaverse we are investing in the future of quality leadership. Join the next Leadership Lean Coffee, a structured, but agenda-less meeting. Register today.

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How to use the RICE-Q framework as an LLM thinking buddy for test ideas

Rahul Parwal describes how to avoid disappointment with your LLM outputs.

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Thanks for all the MoTaCon memories.

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WEBINAR: From Chaos to Control: Begin Your Test Maturity Journey with SmartBear's Zephyr and Herzum. The image displays the title, the date September 30 | 11AM CST, a 'Register today' button, and the logos for SmartBear, Zephyr, and Herzum.

On-demand event

From Chaos to Control: Start Your Test Maturity Journey with Zephyr

🗓️ Plenty of events to join over the coming weeks.

Is AI removing curiousity and creativty from testers?

Describe quality in one emoji — and tell us why and describe testing in one emoji.

What happened to your influence and impact after transitioning to a new role?

What key skills regularly help you tackle testing tasks?

What are you most worried about when it comes to Quality Engineering?

What’s one way you’ve seen responsibilities for quality change?

👋 Say hi to the community on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025

Top security researcher shares their bug bounty process

Rethinking "Technical" in Quality Assurance

The price of mandatory code reviews

I Vibe Coded an App and Learnt Exactly What I Thought I Would

Collection: Software Testing Live. Quality people, real testing.

Plenty of jobs available on the job board.

Join the discussion on The Club and see what’s happening across the MoTaverse via the Observatory.

Community member support

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MoT Berlin meetup #48 with Ash and Ashutosh

Exploring The Testing Planet — and the Future of QA

Mark's awesome business card from TestBash / MoTaCon 2025

Certs, certs and certs. Bug congrats, Maithilee. Adam and Ramanan. 🏆

AI cannot replace these.

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