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!
Speaker, teacher and MoT Ambassador. I offer consulting services as well as running the Leeds MoT meetup. I teach, coach, and give training. MoT Certificates Curator, article editor and contributor.
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.
Smarter testing starts now with Sembi IQ, bringing AI-powered enhancements to TestRail, Xray, and Designwise.
For the advancement of software testing and quality engineering
On the 1st & 2nd of October 2025 we're back in Brighton for TestBash: the largest software testing conference in the UK
Enhance test coverage, and streamline automation. Take a tour!
