Ben Dowen | Activities

10 Portfolio Projects for Automation Engineers

When is a Tester not a Tester?

All QA Testing Roles

MoT Members open to mentor

Slides and links from the talk "Building a quality career" by Ben Down, given at MoT Sousse and Tunis meet-up, 30th June 2025

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Experiment with AI development tools to understand their impact on delivery speed and the quality challenges they create for engineering teams

The brilliant Ben Dowen shares his contagious charisma during a STEC demo lesson. https://www.ministryoftesting.com/stec

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The brilliant Ben Dowen shares his contagious charisma during a STEC demo lesson. https://www.ministryoftesting.com/stec

Thank you for taking part in June's Ambassador catch-up call. As Rahul Parwal says, "Behind every great community… are people who laugh, learn, and lift each other."

MoT Ambassador Crew

Behind every great community… are people who laugh, learn, and lift each other. Grateful to be in this room of passionate and serious testers.

Leadership do not come with the title. It's an art, style and capability to do it. Anyone can extend their hand, raise voice to lead who has a strong feeling and willingness to take the ownership a...

Leadership in Quality

Leadership do not come with the title. It's an art, style and capability to do it. Anyone can extend their hand, raise voice to lead who has a strong feeling and willingness to take the ownership a...

Leading with quality actions, not titles Ep95

Tune in for real stories of testers stepping up, driving change, and building quality-first cultures

Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing, Episode 95. Team MoT and the community are glad you brought folks together to discuss many topics related to leadership. 

👋 Add your job title to your MoT Profile, we're doing some research!

In the MoTaverse we're doing some research into job titles and you can help by updating your MoT Profile with your current or most recent job title. It will only take a moment to do via

Create concise test plans that get read and understood by busy people

5 Reasons I'm super excited to go to TestBash Brighton 2025

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“Bug! Bug! Bug!” shouted my seven year old son as I said goodbye to him for the day. He loves this Bug t-shirt. So the two of us (Bug, not my son) stand ready at the train station. We’re all se...

Thank you for demonstrating many helpful things during Episode 4 of Software Testing Live. Team MoT and the community are grateful. 🤩

Software Testing Live Ep 4, The Awesome Power of Shifting Left

What a great session, so many good insights and snippets, too many to log them all, but I very much enjoyed taking note of some of the words being used when talking about shifting left.- What not h...

Anne-Marie reminds us of the reality of what we can and can't change when in a leadership position. And the binary nature can be profound when it comes to burnout. This reminds me of Steven Cov...

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Quality Engineer Level 4 Apprenticeship... Completed It!

In January 2024, I embarked not only on my first job in a new career, but also on a level 4 apprenticeship as a Quality Engineer. Fast forward to June 2025 and I received the email I had been wait...

Hello, my name is Ben Dowen

Hello, my name is Ben Dowen

I’m coming from: Mansfield, England, UK My role is: Lead Quality Engineer I’d love to meet others who are into: Collaborative ways of working, quality leadership and anything technology I'...

I’m coming from: Mansfield, England, UK My role is: Lead Quality Engineer I’d love to meet others who are into: Collaborative ways of working, quality leadership and anything technology I'...

Thank you for going above and beyond in May 2025. Team MoT appreciates how you consistently support, develop, and grow our community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.

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Establishing exploratory testing using regular collaborative practice

Prompt injections: A new opportunity for testers

Generative AI apps and integrations are growing fast and so are the injection attacks. This time it's through harmless-looking plain text, aka prompts.