Originally from Portugal but call Manchester UK my home.
I love meeting people, hosting friends and family, snowboarding, food, binge-watching sci-fi TV shows, photography, my son and life itself!
MoT Ambassador, speaker, teacher, and accessibility advocate. Consulting, training, Leeds meetup host. MoT Certs curator, editor, contributor. Testing wisdom, friendly, jokes, parody songs and poems
QA Lead at Cogapp, a web agency for museums & archives.
Also co-organiser for codebar Brighton: running coding workshops for underrepresented groups.
Michael Close has been working in testing since 2016, and despite covering a verity of test skills over the years he has a love of exploratory testing and a passion for accessibility testing.
On the 1st & 2nd of October 2025 we're back in Brighton for TestBash: the largest software testing conference in the UK
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