Management, systems thinking, and the loop: Inside the quality architect role

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

In the MoTaverse, we've been reflecting and adapting on what it means to be who we are. In some sense we are a network, or a community, or a conference, or education, or, or, or…many things. As part of this, we've been riffing and building confidence on what and how we are building. We call this Community as a Service. Our goal is to help lift careers and advance the tech industry, it's relentless work from our end that requires funding and investment. We're pretty excited about it, how good it feels, how many more people we are actually serving as a result. We'd love it if you could explore Community as a Service with us, Simon and I riff on it in our latest TWiC.

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Cases, runs, evidence, requirements, and releases in one AI-powered platform for authoring, execution, and automation.

Anything is a lesson: why continuous curiosity matters — Simon Tomes & Frederick Vandenbosch

The key to continuous learning is continuous curiosity

Influence, from the other side of the table — Susanne Abdelrahman

What I learned about influence by becoming a stakeholder

Community as a service: worth saying, worth repeating — Rosie Sherry & Simon Tomes

Discover why community as a service deserves saying out loud, covering paid membership, monetisation, and shifting community trends.

Management, systems thinking, and the loop: Inside the quality architect role — Rosie Sherry & Karim Jouini | Into the MoTaverse

Thunder Code CEO Karim Jouini on why AI eats tasks rather than jobs, and why "quality architect" could become testing's defining role.

Building professional resilience: A guide to surviving job loss — Shawn Vernier

Shift left on your career and build resilience before you need it.

Moments in the MoTaverse, create your moment today.

• New Job, New Chapter: Stepping Into Healthcare QA! 🩺 — Komal Chowdhary
• How far does the MoTaverse go? BEYOND. — Nadja Schulz
• Small things are worth sharing — Frederick Vandenbosch
• A Walk, A Conversation, A Moment 🇩🇪 — Sahana Kasaru
• Testing isn't only the end-to-end level — Oleksandr Romanov
• The Four Pillars of Observability — Marie Cruz
• Fundamental knowledge matters more than ever — Oleksandr Romanov
• Simon Tomes — 3 Moments this week: Thoughts before MoTaCon: Into hell and back again, Have you played the call out the elephant game?, Community as a water park.
• Diana Dromey — 3 Moments this week: Exciting to have WonderProxy once again at MoTaCon!, Thanks to our MoTaCon partners, TestMu AI says yes to MoTaCon and Leaders Dinners!.
• Rosie Sherry — 6 Moments this week: Book: Hidden Multipliers, What it actually means when only Pro Members can submit to speak at events, Evolving quality with AI testing, and 3 more.
• Ady Stokes — 3 Moments this week: Three things I love about testing, Who taught you to test?, Test Up North Day.

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📆 All upcoming events

MoTaverse online:

• Test data driven development — Masterclass — Sept 23rd

MoTaverse, in person:

• Leaders Dinner, London — Sept 28th
• Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton. SOLD OUT, add yourself to the waitlist.
• Engineering management beach party — Sept 30th
• Leaders Dinner, Brighton — Sept 30th, SOLD OUT, add yourself to the wait list.
• Pre-MoTaCon Meetup — MoT Brighton
• MoTaCon 2026 — Let's go!
• Leaders Dinner — 1st October, Brighton
• MoTography at your service — October 1st
• Brighton walking tour — Friday 2nd of October

MoT Chapter events:

• TWiQ, listen live, or join the stage, and join the Chapter.
• TWiC, listen live or join the stage, and join the Chapter
• The Mobile testing workshop for teams who gave up on automation | Thunders
• Device Automation: Where Do We Even Start? - Shiva Shimoga | MoT Cambridge
• The MoTaCon Pre-Party: The Spoiler Episode...Live from Groningen | MoT Netherlands
• AI, Agents and Trailblazers | MoT London
• The People behind the Testing | MoT Manchester x Hippo Digital
• Meet testers and listen to talks | MoT Edinburgh
• MoT Newcastle September Event: UPDATED | MoT Newcastle
• Automate mobile app testing with Katalon | Katalon
• Guardrails & Evals: Keeping Your AI Skills Honest | MoT AI Chapter
• Testing What You Can't Control: Adam Davis | MoT Leeds
• Pre-MoTaCon social | MoT Brighton
• The Rise of Agentic Testing | MoT AI Chapter

Partner events

• Orchestrating Functional Quality at AI Speed — Parasoft
• AI Writes the Tests, yet Nothing Gets Tested — Testkube

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