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Judy Mosley recently launched MoT Music League..I joined her an I enjoyed it A LOT!
We submitted songs, we shared what we like and we had much of fun ✨
Thanks everyone who joined our league 🫰
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I’m coming from Okotoks, Alberta, Canada
I am Director for Software Quality Engineering at Sun Life Financial in Canada
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Judy Mosley recently launched MoT Music League..I joined her an I enjoyed it A LOT!
We submitted songs, we shared what we like and we had much of fun ✨
Thanks everyone who joined our league 🫰
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It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box.
Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product.
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TWiT - Knowing about testing box
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It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box.
Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product.
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Hello, my name is Stuart Thomas
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I’m coming from: Shropshire, UK
My role is: Head of Quality
I’d love to meet others who are into: Continuous improvement, both of teams and themselve...
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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'...
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You've heard the cliché, it's not what you know, it's who you know. When people see you as a leader and look to you for answers, you can't know everything. Invest time in building relationships not...
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I'm coming from the Netherlands
I'm a quality engineer for Dutch Railways
I'm coming to TestBash as a host!
I'm super interested in and would love to talk to others about human-centred technolog...
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I’m coming from: Teddington, Greater London
My role is: Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
I’d love to meet others who believe in the power of community t...
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I’m coming from: Brighton, not far to travel!
My role is: Founder CEO of Ministry of Testing, with a very special interest in community building
I’d love to meet others who ar...
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So on 21st September 2021, my first day as a testing intern, the moment I got my laptop, the first thing I did was take a selfie.🤗 I was a bit disappointed with the camera quality, which probably e...
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I’m coming from: Berlin, Germany
My role is: CTPO of Epic Test Quest
I’d love to meet others who are into: Future of AI in Testing, quality coaching, team enablement, and the future ...
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I’m coming from: Munich, Germany
My role is: Senior Quality Engineer
I’d love to meet others who are into: UX, ethics, risk mitigation, sustainable working
I'm coming to TestBash 20...
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I’m coming from: Lewes, East Sussex
My role is: Finance Manager at Ministry of Testing
I’d love to meet others who are into: All things MoTaverse 🪐 .... and coffee
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I’m coming from: near Leeds in West Yorkshire, UK
My role is: freelance IT and accessibility consultant
I’d love to meet others who are into: accessibility, quality engineering, teach...
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I’m coming from: Brighton, UK
My role is: QA Lead in a small web agency
I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as a: Ambassador and Attendee of course
I’ve been to TestBash: Once before (last ...
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I’m coming from: Bristol, UK
My role is: QA Professional
I’d love to meet others who are into: Passionate about Software testing, Quality coaches, AI in testing
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I’m coming from: Cambridge, UK
My role is: Quality and Test Engineer
I’d love to meet others who are into: Testing AI systems | Neurodiversity in Quality and Testing | All things quali...
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Hello my name is Gary Hawkes
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Hello my name is Gary Hawkes
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About me:
I'm coming from: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
My role is: QA Lead
I'd love to meet others who are into: Leadership and anyone into improving software quality, however they do it
I'm c...
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I'm coming from: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK
My role is: QA Lead
I'd love to meet others who are into: Leadership and anyone into improving software quality, however they do it
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A few things I’m proud of:
🧪 I break things for a living (so they don’t break in the wild).
📍 Based in Jaipur, India’s Pink City, where the testing passion runs deep.
💼 Software Testing Specia...
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I’m coming from: Surrey/London, England
My role is: Lead Quality Engineer
I’d love to meet others who are into: quality engineering, leading quality teams, building quality cultu...
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You can imagine my delight when I spotted this bloke in my local Waterstones bookstore.
"I'm a tester, can I get a photo of your t-shirt? It is so cool!"
"Sure, I'm a developer. My kids got me ...
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Testing inside the boxes and beyond Ep 93
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Testing meetups, community memories, and finding your voice — the This Week in Testing crew shares insights, inspiration, and reflections from around the globe.
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A micro tutorial on how to follow people in the MoTaverse :)
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Learn about some of the reasons we get stuck and some top tips for getting unstuck
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Decide when to stop testing by weighing up the costs, benefits, risks, and impact on quality.
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Was a professional member in 2025
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Is the future of test case management at risk? Let's go exploring.
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12 things we learned when we questioned the existence of test case management
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Is the future of test case management at risk? Let's go exploring.
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How do you document feedback on your documentation? Ep 91
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Oleksandr, Demi, Judy, Lukas, Gary, Milan & Susanne explore the art of documentation, feedback loops, test automation, and the value of community conversation.
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But how are we gonna test this? Ep 88
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We all have our own unique testing journeys
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Data from performance and load tests can be difficult to interpret
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Gary Hawkes
QA Lead
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Software QA Lead and tester who loves to see people grow, processes continuously improve and help organisations understand and support Quality Engineering
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