Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
Learning and Development Lead
She/Her
My main aim is to help software testers turn their vast knowledge and skills into bite-sized chunks suitable for the community to digest.

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Contributions

API mocking made easy image
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A brand-new professional member course with José Carréra
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 29 image
  • Sarah Deery's profile
  • Gabbi Trotter's profile
  • Richard Hinton's profile
  • Emily O'Connor 's profile
  • Bug's profile
  • Space Seagull's profile
  • Space Duck's profile
Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
That just-finished-a-talk feeling image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Kat Obring's profile
Snapped just after Kat Obring finished her talk at Leeds Testing Atelier, one of the most packed sessions of the day, with people standing at the back to hear her speak. Kat is pictured here wit...
Meeting the Rosie Sherry image
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Melissa M's profile
  • Layla Abbott's profile
A lovely moment from Leeds Testing Atelier; folks excited to meet, in their words, "the Rosie Sherry!" Rosie is pictured here with Layla Abbott and another attendee, both newer to testing and pa...
Getting under the surface with subcutaneous testing image
Costa Giannakopoulos introduced the term and concept of subcutaneous testing, an approach that sits just beneath the UI layer to test application logic directly. He shared examples using PactumJ...
A glimpse of life as a Research Software Engineer in academia  image
Sorrel Harriet gave a fascinating look into the world of the research software engineering role. She shared what it’s like to support universities in building better software, and how coaching, ...
Empowering teams through self assessment image
Clement Pickering shared how a simple self-assessment tool can help teams reflect, grow, and move towards a fast, effective delivery culture. Drawing on work at Conflux, Clement showed how self-...
From Gatekeepers to Quality Coaches image
  • Kat Obring's profile
Kat Obring’s talk at Leeds Testing Atelier explored how QA roles can evolve from blockers at the end of a pipeline to enablers of quality throughout it. Kat shared practical ways testers can shi...
Testing with ethics in mind image
  • Chris Briggs's profile
Chris Briggs gave the first outing of his talk "The Good, The Right, and The Fitting at Leeds Testing Atelier," a session on moral philosophy in software testing. He introduced ethical concepts ...
STEC in the sunshine! image
  • Gwen Diagram's profile
  • Sarah Deery's profile
  • Emily O'Connor 's profile
This snap from a sunny break at Leeds Testing Atelier captures just a few of the many brilliant contributors to the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC). In the pic are Gwen Diagra...
It was lovely to catch up with The Testing Mermaid image
  • Sarah Deery's profile
  • Jessica Bane's profile
Jessica Bane goes by the name of The Testing Mermaid, we have a photo somewhere of her on Brighton beach dressed up as mermaid, I will dig it out soon. It was great to catch up at Leeds Atelier....
Testing your assumptions image
  • Emily O'Connor 's profile
Emily O’Connor’s talk at Leeds Testing Atelier was a great reminder that we’re not our customers and we shouldn't design or build as if we are. She explored how small assumptions can quietly sha...
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