When you witness people within the community struggling to find work, it starts to feel more personal when you get to know one another at meetups, MoTaCon and the MoTaverse. When they make contributions online and through doing things like 99 second talks, the hope of them finding that next job becomes something the people of the MoTaverse root for.
That's happened twice this week. Rahul explains why it feels important. Bug congrats to Preeti and Madhuri on their new roles. They got the job! 🎉
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What's new in the MoTaverse?
Hello, I am Rosie, your new MoTaverse Weekly host. After 193 issues, Simon Tomes is taking a break and focusing on other quality tasks, so I thought I'd take over and give it a try. I started this newsletter over 10 years ago, I think. It's amazing that it's still going! 🫶
- Invest in test artefacts, they can last longer than the application's source code: An exploration of test artefacts in relation to information, knowledge and product maintenance. [Trend]
- Existential crisis: What is quality engineering? - Ep 112 - Hosted by Ben Dowen and Judy Mosley, thank you! [TWiQ]
- Lessons for software testers from three great Western philosophers: Apply philosophical thinking techniques from Socrates, Descartes, and Aristotle to improve questioning, scepticism, and observation in software testing. By Ady Stokes. [Article]
- Bug lets us know that we updated our profile pic and logo as a nod towards Movember and men's health. Maybe we can call it MoTvember. 🤔 [Memory]
- GOT THE JOB!!! From Madhuri Mittal [Memory]
- The MoTaverse community algorithm continues to evolve: Learners and Teachers now earn stars. By Rosie Sherry. [News]
- 167 Jobs: are on our job board. This is a community-led job board. If you see one in the wild, why not help your people out by sharing it on our job board?
- ΜoT Athens Lean coffee at Vodafone from Petros Plakogiannis
Where are people gathering?
- Communities of Practice, a live conversation with Rosie Sherry and Drew Pontikis. RSVP.
- MoT winter meetups are happening, is there one near you? Valencia | Manchester | Cambridge | London | Leeds | Munich | Sarjevo | Coventry | Athens
- Virtual Lean Coffees: let's meet online and talk about what's on your mind with Leadership or AI.
- MoTaCon 2026: you can submit to speak. Remember, to attend MoTaCon 2026 you need a Professional Membership (available for teams!), no separate ticket purchase is required. Registration is required, save your place today.
- Leading With Quality is returning to Brighton, right before MoTaCon. Save your spot, it will sell out.
- TWiQ, a weekly Friday gathering of quality conversations, join us for the next session.
From The Observatory:
The Observatory is where we and the community share blogs, articles, videos and news from the quality ecosystem, here's a little taste:
- Why I Chose to Be a Director of Quality Engineering (Not QA) — Jessica Mosley
- What Is a Principal Tester - 5 Years On — Jitesh Gosai
- There are no bad testers only bad systems — Anne-Marie Charrett
- The Test Automation Crisis - Titus Fortner
- How we Uncovered a Race Condition in Aurora RDS — HighTouch
- We’re Repeating Cybersecurity’s Big Mistake, This Time With AI — Christ Sheehan, The New Stack
- Test Leadership as Change Management: Why Your Real Job Isn’t Testing — David Ingraham
- The Leadership Practice of Noticing — Alan Page
- My Leadership Rhythm: A Practical Structure for Strategic and Tactical Alignment Sessions — Dan Ashby
Quality tools from the database:
- Wonderproxy is localization testing with confidence. Combine a global network with flexible testing tools to see what your website looks like to customers around the world
- XBOW is an AI-powered penetration testing platform that delivers human-level security testing at machine speed.
- TestFiesta is an intuitive, feature-rich, and lightning-fast Test Case Management platform built for modern QA teams.
The MoTaverse is the home to quality leaders. It is an independent and member supported organisation that is here to uplift the quality engineering industry. Upgrade to Professional Membership, available for individuals or teams.
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