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!

STEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, speaker, and accessibility advocate. Consulting, training, Leeds meetup host. MoT Certs curator and contributor. Testing wisdom, friendly, jokes, parody songs and poems

QA Lead at Cogapp, a web agency for museums & archives. MoT Ambassador. Co-organiser for codebar Brighton (coding workshops for underrepresented groups).

Tester by trade, question-asker by nature, coffee drinker by necessity.
Every day is a school day.
Don't do agile. BE agile!

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.