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Lead Quality Engineer
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I explore the world of software development and testing. Join me as I continue my adventures, discovering the wonders of quality.
Breaking stereotyping, better supporting diversity in testers' backgrounds and characteristics, might encourage changes in recruitment... image
Breaking stereotyping, better supporting diversity in testers' backgrounds and characteristics, might encourage changes in recruitment...
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Listen to Lisa Crispin and Janet Gregory have a brilliant chat
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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<div>In my experience working as a Quality Engineer, it has given me the opportunity to get involved in many of the same quality building activities I did as a Tester, but now people don't look at me weird, like I'm doing something strange and beyond my role.<br><br>Quality Engineering is technical leadership, and you can break that down fundamentally equal parts challenging, and supporting teams to deliver better products. Sometimes it's as simple as making space, and giving permissions for teams to challenge their existing processes, practices, tools, frameworks and design decisions. Sometimes it is about supporting them to make decisions, explore possible solutions or simply getting stuck in and completing work as part of the team.<br><br>Hang on, doesn't that sounds an awful lot like the job of an Engineering Manager, CTO, or Head of Engineering? Well, you'd be right, and all of those roles, and more, can support teams on their Quality Engineering journey, you need not always have a named "Quality Engineer". If you are lucky enough to have budget and capacity to bring in an expert in Testing and Quality, a QE can support one or more teams, and work hand-in-hand with other technical leaders.</div> image
Definitions of Quality Engineering
Ben Dowen
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Ben Dowen, a bearded man wearing grey trousers a black short sleeved tshirt, pink name badge and black cap, stands proudly infront of his own title slide that reads "Coding Challenges Prepare for S...
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Ben Dowen
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Debrief the week in testing as the community explores debugging wins, building and scaling communities of practice, leadership in testing, and much mote image
Debrief the week in testing as the community explores debugging wins, building and scaling communities of practice, leadership in testing, and much mote
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Ben Dowen
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Earned through actions that have made the MoT Community a more pleasant and useful place to be.
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Catch This Week in Testing, where Simon and guests reflect on TestBash 2024, share AI insights, and offer tips for applying conference learnings
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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That one time when Simon kindly asked the software testing community to ignore a post, because it was a test. And naturally we all piled in with likes, commends and re-shares, because was just can'... image
That one time when Simon kindly asked the software testing community to ignore a post, because it was a test. And naturally we all piled in with likes, commends and re-shares, because was just can'...
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Got the opportunity to sit and have a chat with these wonderful humans! 
(Ben, Dan and Titus). image
Got the opportunity to sit and have a chat with these wonderful humans! (Ben, Dan and Titus).
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Group of testers enjoying a drink all posing for a photo.
What if we need information about our mental health and we’re the stakeholders of our bodies and minds? image
What if we need information about our mental health and we’re the stakeholders of our bodies and minds?
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Ben Dowen
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First day of 99 Second Talks at TestBash Brighton 2024
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Plate of food, bettered fish, peas, with a coke in the background
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Ben Dowen
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Ben Dowen taking selfie with other TestBash attendees in the background socialising and a sunset at OhSocial
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Ben Dowen
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Selfie of Ben Dowen looking back at tables of attendees at the workshop
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Selfie of ben looking back on the audience for 99 second talks
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Selfie of ben looking back on the audience for 99 second talks
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Antonella, Maite and Ben
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Antonella, Maite and Ben
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Simon Tomes, Ashutosh Mishra and Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Simon Tomes, Ashutosh Mishra and Ben Dowen image
Simon Tomes, Ashutosh Mishra and Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Simon Tomes, Simon Rigler and Ben Dowen image
Simon Tomes, Simon Rigler and Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Simon Tomes, Simon Rigler and Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Ady Stokes, Kirsten Reher and Teresa Reynolds
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Stuart Day and Ben Dowen at the pre testbash social image
Stuart Day and Ben Dowen at the pre testbash social
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Stuart Day and Ben Dowen at the pre testbash social image
Stuart Day and Ben Dowen at the pre testbash social
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Richard Adams and Ben Dowen ad the pre-bash social
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Richard Adams and Ben Dowen ad the pre-bash social image
Richard Adams and Ben Dowen ad the pre-bash social
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Ben Dowen and Ady Stokes
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Ben Dowen and Ady Stokes image
Ben Dowen and Ady Stokes
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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James Wadley, Gwen Diagram and Ben Dowen at pre-bash social image
James Wadley, Gwen Diagram and Ben Dowen at pre-bash social
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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James Wadley, Gwen Diagram and Ben Dowen at pre-bash social image
James Wadley, Gwen Diagram and Ben Dowen at pre-bash social
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Ben Dowen, Jenna Charlton and Karen Todd
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Ben Dowen, Jenna Charlton and Karen Todd
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Veerle Verhagen, Beren Van Daele and Ben Dowen in the Brighton train station image
Veerle Verhagen, Beren Van Daele and Ben Dowen in the Brighton train station
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Veerle Verhagen, Beren Van Daele and Ben Dowen in the Brighton train station image
Veerle Verhagen, Beren Van Daele and Ben Dowen in the Brighton train station
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Ben Dowen, a white man with long ginger hair, wearing a red software testing clinic t-shirt. Holding a tray of chips, outside "the famous fish &amp; chips" chip shop in Brighton image
Ben Dowen, a white man with long ginger hair, wearing a red software testing clinic t-shirt. Holding a tray of chips, outside "the famous fish & chips" chip shop in Brighton
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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Ben Dowen, a white man with long ginger hair, wearing a red software testing clinic t-shirt. Holding a tray of chips, outside "the famous fish &amp; chips" chip shop in Brighton image
Ben Dowen, a white man with long ginger hair, wearing a red software testing clinic t-shirt. Holding a tray of chips, outside "the famous fish & chips" chip shop in Brighton
Ben Dowen
Ben Dowen
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🎙️ Catch up on episode 57 of This Week in Testing. Ben Dowen and community members shared strategies for upskilling, and touched on the importance of collaboration with developers image
🎙️ Catch up on episode 57 of This Week in Testing. Ben Dowen and community members shared strategies for upskilling, and touched on the importance of collaboration with developers
James introduces GitHub Desktop as a user-friendly alternative to command-line Git operations image
James introduces GitHub Desktop as a user-friendly alternative to command-line Git operations
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