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
I've been working in the software testing and quality engineering space since the year 2000 whilst also combining it with my love for education and community building.
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.
For the advancement of software testing and quality engineering
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