Demi Van Malcot
Test engineer, Test lead, Quality manager
she/her
I am Open to Speak, Write
I've been in testing since 2023, since then I never stopped learning and taking every opportunity I've come across. From becoming test lead not long after I started, to being a community lead for testing and for AI in at the company I work at. Nowadays I'm learning the ropes of leading with quality as I have added the role of quality manager of my department to my growing list of titles.
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Achieving 5 or more Community Star badges
Activity
earned:
Quality moments and delicate developer dialogues - Ep 127
contributed:
Celebrate surprise-smooth demos, learn how solo testers spark better quality conversations, and explore “assumption investigating” as a core skill for making work clearer and kinder.
earned:
Demi's Demo Luck
thanked contributors on:
All the talks at Peerscon 2026 were fabulous and I have scattered notes from each talk that I need to dissect and move forward with. However, I thought I'd share a very unique talk fro...
earned:
Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
Contributions
Celebrate surprise-smooth demos, learn how solo testers spark better quality conversations, and explore “assumption investigating” as a core skill for making work clearer and kinder.
Sometimes all the stars align and you demo goes off without any issues.Last sprint I did a demo of the entire flow through new applications and talked for 20 minutes and nothing went wrong...
Cut through the AI hype, swap real guardrail stories, and laugh at the rainbow-vomit moments along the way.
Swap your team’s favourite quality superstitions, laugh at cursed demos and disappearing bugs, and turn “don’t deploy on Fridays” from folklore into smarter release habits.
Set meaningful goals, communicate quality through risks and real-world consequences, and turn small wins like building a quality narrative into career growth.
2025 was a year on hard mode, but I also found some amazing things that brought me energy and inspiration 😊. This year I want to do more of those.
I get energy from good challenges, last year I st...
We have always been sharing goals in our organisation at the start of the year. It is a great initiative by MoT team to share and talk about individual goals here. This gives us opportunity and spa...
Discover how testers are using public goals, badges and community support to grow their skills, gain confidence and make progress in 2026
Explore why questioning systems and trusting your judgement still matter in quality engineering and testing.
Celebrate the spooky side of quality as community members share their funniest, scariest, and most unforgettable stories that turn everyday mishaps into lessons worth laughing about.
