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Jesper Ottosen
Senior Advisory Consultant
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Jesper has been around the MoT community from the start, frequently passing by the Club and Slack. For more than 10 years he has provided 300+ blogposts on all things testing. 🌻
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
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My 2026 goals image
I started 2025 in a bad place, I felt like I was getting punched from all different life angles. I'm happy to say I'm finishing it in a very positive way. For 2026 my goals are to establish t...
My 2026 goals image
My 2026 goals
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
awarded Rosie Sherry for:
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
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Testing is... image
Testing is not about proving the system works, but about deciding what we now know well enough to move forward.
Testing is... image
Testing is...
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
awarded Ujjwal Kumar Singh for:
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
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Learning to think in systems: Lessons from my mentor  image
Reframe your testing from fixing bugs to understanding systems through small, deliberate habits that shape how you think and decide.
Learning to think in systems: Lessons from my mentor  image
Learning to think in systems: Lessons from my mentor
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
awarded Hanisha Arora for:
Learning to think in systems: Lessons from my mentor  image
Learning to think in systems: Lessons from my mentor
Moments in 2025 image
Moments in 2025
2025 - The Year in Review image
2025 - The Year in Review
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
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After the pause: Rediscovering the feeling of belonging in tech image
Understand how losing community, not losing skill, can drain your energy as a tester, and how small, curious reconnections matter more than big career moves.
After the pause: Rediscovering the feeling of belonging in tech image
After the pause: Rediscovering the feeling of belonging in tech
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
awarded Viv Richards for:
After the pause: Rediscovering the feeling of belonging in tech image
After the pause: Rediscovering the feeling of belonging in tech
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
thanked contributors on:
Let's test your visual testing skills: Spot the 9 differences image
Earlier this year we created Issue 12 of The Testing Planet. Within it was a "Spot the difference" activity featuring Emily O'Connor's MoT profile. It deserves an memory on it's own. Drop ...
Let's test your visual testing skills: Spot the 9 differences image
Let's test your visual testing skills: Spot the 9 differences
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
awarded Rosie Sherry for:
Let's test your visual testing skills: Spot the 9 differences image
Let's test your visual testing skills: Spot the 9 differences
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
awarded Emily O'Connor for:
Let's test your visual testing skills: Spot the 9 differences image
Let's test your visual testing skills: Spot the 9 differences
Thanks for upgrading to Professional Membership. image
Thanks for upgrading to Professional Membership.
Great to see your Leading With Quality conversation featured on the MoT homepage.  image
Great to see your Leading With Quality conversation featured on the MoT homepage. 
We Shouldn’t Be So Obsessed With Our Industry Terminology image
We Shouldn’t Be So Obsessed With Our Industry Terminology
Quality is a System image
Quality is a System
Lead with quality image
This badge is awarded to members who share their insights on Leading with Quality.
Jesper Ottosen - Leading with imagination image
Jesper Ottosen - Leading with imagination
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
contributed:
Jesper Ottosen - Leading with imagination image
Explore ways to use imagination to move past bottlenecks and grow new quality leaders
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
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Congratulations on your article and welcome to the consulting space.
One of the great challenges for this kind of wor... image
"Congratulations on your article and welcome to the consulting space. One of the great challenges for this kind of work is that the contracts limits being adaptive. The one I’m starring at have content requirements for the the strategy documents."
Exploring test leadership in a consultancy environment image
Lead effectively by learning how to stay composed, organised, and focused while navigating the realities of consultancy work
14.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
14.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
You're absolutely right! We now read the docs. image
AI can transform our love for curiousity, documentation and knowledge management
You're absolutely right! How we now read the docs. image
You're absolutely right! How we now read the docs.
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
contributed:
You're absolutely right! We now read the docs. image
AI can transform our love for curiousity, documentation and knowledge management
Thanks for taking the time chat all things quality leadership. image
Thanks for taking the time chat all things quality leadership.
14.5.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
14.5.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
14.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
14.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
14.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
14.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Completed your book today..It was a delightful read.. I could see how I am doing some things right and what can I do ... image
Completed your book today..It was a delightful read.. I could see how I am doing some things right and what can I do to improve myself.Test leadership is hard. No one teaches it out in open. Thanks for writing this book and giving me this wonderful gift.I would now be giving this book to another testing leader at my work..Gratitude 🙏 
Completed your book today..It was a delightful read.. I could see how I am doing some things right and what can I do ... image
Completed your book today..It was a delightful read.. I could see how I am doing some things right and what can I do to improve myself.Test leadership is hard. No one teaches it out in open. Thanks for writing this book and giving me this wonderful gift.I would now be giving this book to another testing leadership at my work..Gratitude 🙏 
Quality feedback over testing artefacts - Ep 111 image
Quality feedback over testing artefacts - Ep 111
Jesper Ottosen
Jesper Ottosen
contributed:
Quality feedback over testing artefacts - Ep 111 image
Shift your mindset from documenting testing to influencing quality with meaningful conversations.
Click the Button image
It takes some courage, but you will feel the results. Expand your abilities by clicking the "Join the stage queue" button at the next This Week in Quality event.
Andrew Morton when the MoT site goes down image
The MoT site was down briefly and Andrew posted he was going scorched earth on it. Made me think of him in a maze looking for the cause.
Thank you for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear your thoughts on leadership challenges.  image
Thank you for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear your thoughts on leadership challenges. 
Nice one for so quickly pointing Lisa Crispin in the direction of the MoTaCon 2026 event page.  image
Nice one for so quickly pointing Lisa Crispin in the direction of the MoTaCon 2026 event page. 
Autism-aware application design: Tips for software testers image
Apply autism-aware design principles to improve software usability for autistic and neurodivergent people.
MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate image
MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
Thanks for the STEC testermonial. image
Thanks for the STEC testermonial.
Thanks for sharing the idea to add STEC certificates everywhere. Great idea!  image
Thanks for sharing the idea to add STEC certificates everywhere. Great idea! 
The fabulous Emily on stage image
The fabulous Emily on stage - 99 seconds talk
Titles may shift, but identity is what we make (claim) make of it image
"If identity is socially constructed, then as quality leaders, we have the power to reconstruct how quality is seen and valued in our organisation." — Barry Ehigiator And Barry highlights the ma...
Thank you Jesper for the gift image
The best leaders in testing are those who never stop learning and share what they learn generously. At the Leading with Quality Event by the Ministry of Testing, I had the honor of meeting Jespe...
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