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The impact of AI on job security

My 2026 goal is to contribute meaningfully to the global quality community by sharing my quality engineering experience, learning from diverse practitioners, and improving how quality is practiced ...

Expanding the Reach of Quality

Expanding the Reach of Quality

Engineering Quality Podcast, episode on Holistic Testing

4.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate

4.1.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate

Cassandra H. Leung shares the following in Module 4, Lesson 4 of the Software Quality Engineering Certificate (SQEC). "One thing that people can start doing straight away is to talk about qualit...

What's one thing you do to support a stronger quality culture?

What's one thing you do to support a stronger quality culture?

What's one thing you do to support a stronger quality culture?

What's one thing you do to support a stronger quality culture?

What's one thing you do to support a stronger quality culture?

What's one thing you do to support a stronger quality culture?

What's one thing you do to support a stronger quality culture?

The end of 2025 was emotionally one of the hardest periods for me since 2022. Living in a world full of political changes while war is happening in your own country is not easy. Blackouts, massive ...

My 2026 Goals ✨

My 2026 Goals ✨

4.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate

4.1.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate

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If 2025 was my year of rebuilding, reconnecting, and rediscovering momentum, then 2026 feels like the year where everything accelerates at once. Not in a chaotic way, but more like a well‑timed mon...

2026: A Year of Stages, Stories, and Side‑Quests

2026: A Year of Stages, Stories, and Side‑Quests

For the last five years every year i would sit down and write a list of goals and resolutions that i would like to achieve , and then nothing truly ever change ... This realization hits me every la...

Showing up - 2026

Showing up - 2026

I joined an interesting webinar with Stu Day and Ash Gawthorp (CTO, Co-Founder of Ten10): Leading Through the AI Revolution: Considerations for Integrating AI into Your Business DNA. The dis...

What do your AI guardrails look like?

What do your AI guardrails look like?

What do your AI guardrails look like?

What do your AI guardrails look like?

In 2026 I'd like to build consistency into my community-member focused blog writing habit and benefit from the good feeling of getting stuff out of my head and onto digital paper. In 2026 I'd li...

Starter goals for 2026

Starter goals for 2026

Year 2025 was a unique year in my throughout professional journey. A year which was full of challenges, lot of learning, meeting so many people and many more. The year when I started to participate...

My Goals 2026 - Learn, Adapt and Grow together

My Goals 2026 - Learn, Adapt and Grow together

I enjoyed listening to Gary Hawkes and Parveen Khan during SQEC Module 4 Lesson 2. I took notes...

Who supports and manages quality engineers?

Who supports and manages quality engineers?

Who supports and manages quality engineers?

Who supports and manages quality engineers?

I enjoyed listening to Gary Hawkes and Parveen Khan during SQEC Module 4 Lesson 2. I took notes...

Small posts, big learnings: Why sharing matters more than ever - Ep 120

See why sharing small things often is one of the most effective ways to learn and grow in your career

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This Week in Quality

We wrapped up our first year of Ambassadoring, reflected on it, explored some ideas on how we can improve it. As time came to the end, I was saying thank you and wasn't sure how to say goodbye,...