Marie Cruz
Senior Developer Advocate
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Marie Cruz is a Software Tester with over 10 years of experience and the co-author of the book Contract Testing in Action. Currently, she works as a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs.

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Awarded for: Achieving one or more Community Stars in five or more unique months

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Marie Cruz
Marie Cruz
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18.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
18.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Marie Cruz
Marie Cruz
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10.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
10.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Marie Cruz
Marie Cruz
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Performance Testing 101
Marie Cruz
Marie Cruz
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Performance Testing 101
Marie Cruz
Marie Cruz
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9.4.2 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
9.4.2 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate

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Poppy is your frenchie/pitbull guardian! 🐶 Superpowers: - A professional sleeper - Ability to always look sad and neglected even though she is actually a spoiled princess - Can sneakily eat l...
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Willow is your super fluffy Samoyed! 🐶 Superpowers: - Sweetest dog ever to exist and very affectionate - Smiles for the camera with his signature “Sammy smile” - Stunning white fur! - Smells...
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Thanks for taking to the stage for a 99 second talk!
99 Second Talks – Day 2 – TestBash Brighton / MoTaCon 2025 image
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Celebrate the creativity and courage of testers and quality engineers as they share stories, lessons, and ideas in just 99 seconds.
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Taking a selfie before starting the workshop! Full house as well 😱
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Glad to be in this learning opportunity around Contract Testing with Marie Cruz and Lewis Prescott.
STEC is complete 🎉: 19 modules, 59 voices, and a jam packed portfolio to show your growth image
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Eighteen months, 19 modules, and 59 amazing contributors later, the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certification is complete! Looking back, my favourite part has been seeing so many community m...
Module 18 is now live in the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate! image
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During filming for Module 18 of the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate, Marie Cruz put a demo e-commerce site through its paces with a k6 Studio load test and managed to reveal a hidden we...
STEM in the garden: How to monitor plants with IoT sensors and Grafana image
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Level up your testing and observability skills by turning your dying houseplants into a fun learning project!
A family STEM project: Learning monitoring and observability with your child (and a plant!) image
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Recorded today, a brilliant talk with Marie Cruz, Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs — coming soon to Ministry of Testing! In “STEM in the garden: How to monitor plants with IoT sensors a...
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Chaos engineering is the practice of deliberately introducing failures to your system to understand how your system responds to different failures that can manifest to your users. For example, you may want to take down a random API or data service and see the side effect on your users’ applications. If the side effects are impactful and if you have Service Level Agreements (SLA) in place, then this can have a detrimental impact on your organisation.
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