Kat Obring
Founder, Director
she/her
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak
Former chef turned software testing expert Kat Obring brings 20 years of experience from Disney, Anaplan, and Accenture. She offers quality leadership coaching and training courses.

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Lead with quality

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STEC is complete 🎉: 19 modules, 59 voices, and a jam packed portfolio to show your growth image
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Eighteen months, 19 modules, and 59 amazing contributors later, the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certification is complete! Looking back, my favourite part has been seeing so many community m...
Quality Leadership Roles — what's the real story? image
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I noticed Kat Obring talking about the lack of leadership roles. I love to see it. It's a big reason why we have our Leading with Quality conversations, event and community efforts around it. In...
Kat Obring: Scaling change, one iteration at a time image
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Learn how to influence, advocate, and create change when you’re struggling to get buy-in
Post TestBash Meetup at Ohso Social image
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Good times were had. Here with Gwen Diagram, Kat Obring, Emily O'Connor and Ady Stokes.
Leadership isn’t about having the smartest answers.  image
When you shift from “Here’s what I think we should do” to “What would change if we understood why this keeps happening?”, you stop being the tester with opinions and start being the person who unlo...
12 things we learned when we questioned the existence of test case management image
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Is the future of test case management at risk? Let's go exploring.
How to go from being a gatekeeper to being a quality coach image
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At the Leeds Testing Atelier I spoke about how we, as testers, can go from being gatekeepers to being quality coaches. One of the practical suggestions was to facilitate a test planning workshop wi...
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 28 image
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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
That just-finished-a-talk feeling image
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Snapped just after Kat Obring finished her talk at Leeds Testing Atelier, one of the most packed sessions of the day, with people standing at the back to hear her speak. Kat is pictured here wit...
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