Rosie Sherry
CEO & Founder at Ministry of Testing
She/Her
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Mentor, CV Reviews, Podcasting, Meet at MoTaCon 2026
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. It turns out quality, community and education go nicely hand in hand.
🎓 MoT-STEC qualified
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Awarded for:
Achieving one or more Community Stars in five or more unique months
Activity
earned:
The art of the 99 seconds air horn
thanked contributors on:
I may be on annual leave after travelling warp factor 5 to the planet rock and back again 🎸🤘, but sitting on the train is the perfect time to catch up with that backlog of bookmarked MoT articles a...
earned:
Catching up on the train
awarded Gary Hawkes for:
Catching up on the train
earned:
The art of the 99 seconds air horn
Contributions
Since 2013 (I think) we've been doing 99 second talks. It's hard to remember the exact details, but I think we used an air horn in the early days, but it's also varied along the way. And there's a ...
A significant shift in technical terminology and tasks is identified. Instead of traditional "test case design," the focus is moving toward the curation of "golden datasets."
Watch the full conv...
Simon Tomes and Jesper Ottosen recently recorded a conversation as part of the MoT's Call for Insights, where they had a great discussion on both positive and negative types of friction that we can...
A revealing conversation exploring how the 1,400+ different quality and testing job titles reveal a deeper identity challenge in software testing.
We're tweaking our Professional Membership Model
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