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Sarah Deery
Learning and Development Lead
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My main aim is to help quality professionals turn their vast knowledge and skills into bite-sized chunks that the community can digest.

MoTaverse Team
A Bug rug image
As teased yesterday, I made a rug of Bug!
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Raimund Due for:
Thank you for letting us know about a bug in the email regarding your certificate purchase :) image
Thank you for letting us know about a bug in the email regarding your certificate purchase :)
:tada: Module 16 is now live in the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate! image
:tada: Module 16 is now live in the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate!
What are the risks of trusting your tools too much? image
What are the risks of trusting your tools too much?
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Emily O'Connor for:
Thank you for reporting a missing link in an article! :) image
Thank you for reporting a missing link in an article! :)
How do you quickly find the version where a bug was introduced? image
How do you quickly find the version where a bug was introduced?
 Huge thanks to Sarah for bringing together all the certificate contributions. I was keen to be involved but had some... image
 Huge thanks to Sarah for bringing together all the certificate contributions. I was keen to be involved but had some anxiety around public speaking — Sarah made the whole process smooth and welcoming. Her thoughtful approach to the audio recordings made all the difference. 
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Amandine Douguedroit for:
Thank you for donating your article fee to the Scholarship fund! image
Thank you for donating your article fee to the Scholarship fund!
Is learning a programming language really that tough, or is it just me? image
Is learning a programming language really that tough, or is it just me?
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Jesse Berkeley for:
Thank you for giving feedback on another member's work and giving them a boost! image
Thank you for giving feedback on another member's work and giving them a boost!
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded James Wadley for:
Thank you for providing feedback on another member's work and giving them a boost!  image
Thank you for providing feedback on another member's work and giving them a boost! 
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Marie Cruz for:
Thank you for keeping your course up-to-date :) image
Thank you for keeping your course up-to-date :)
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Deborah Reid for:
Thanks for sharing that there was a broken link in an OD course image
Thanks for sharing that there was a broken link in an OD course
A family STEM project: Learning monitoring and observability with your child (and a plant!) image
A family STEM project: Learning monitoring and observability with your child (and a plant!)
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
contributed:
A family STEM project: Learning monitoring and observability with your child (and a plant!) image
Recorded today, a brilliant talk with Marie Cruz, Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs — coming soon to Ministry of Testing! In “STEM in the garden: How to monitor plants with IoT sensors a...
MoT London June meetup mems image
Great to catchup with Simon and Callum at the MoT London meetup. It was the biggest one yet and a lot of people for me ha, so nice to chat with familiar faces! And see the people enjoying their...
 Recording in action: Lewis Prescott on Contract Testing – Coming soon! image
Recording in action: Lewis Prescott on Contract Testing – Coming soon!
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
contributed:
 Recording in action: Lewis Prescott on Contract Testing – Coming soon! image
Here is Lewis Prescott, recording a lesson for his upcoming course, "Modern integration testing: Tools, techniques, and strategies for continuous quality." In this lesson, Lewis walks you throug...
Imagine being a detective who knows how to use forensic tools image
Manish Saini shares a wonderful analogy in STEC Module 16, Lesson 1: What is technical testing?
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Jesper Ottosen for:
Thanks for uplifting a writer and giving feedback on their article image
Thanks for uplifting a writer and giving feedback on their article
The Green Room before MoT Tunis image
Myself, Mariem and Ben in the Green Room before MoT Tunis Online. Simon Tomes appears to be there in spirit!
What do testers do? image
What do testers do?
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
achieved:
Pride Supporter image
This badge is awarded to members who choose to visibly support Pride on their Ministry of Testing profile.
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Jesse Berkeley for:
Thanks for letting us know about the typo :) image
Thanks for letting us know about the typo :)
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
achieved:
MoT Community Certificate image
Earned through actions that have made the MoT Community a more pleasant and useful place to be.
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Rabi'a Brown for:
Who needs Chat-GPT when you have MoT-GPT image
A discussion on TWIT had me wondering what 'Grey Box Testing' was. Luckily, some lovely people were on hand to answer my question!
Empowering others image
I am a big believer that confidence is built on actively doing things. Particularly, doing things you never done before, there is no much evidence it will work or people who would confirm your theo...
In most cases, do not do things alone image
"I love when I see my junior testers ask for help, and the senior goes, I actually don't know either. Let's go find out together." shares Jenny. So cool to see Nataliia Burmei and Jenny Bramble...
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Stefan Dirnstorfer for:
Thanks for feeding back to us on how writing with us has helped you! image
Thanks for feeding back to us on how writing with us has helped you!
The leadership lesson of sledge rides with the kids  image
It’s only a few years ago I realized I can no longer sleigh down snowy hills with my kids. I have to either stand and watch or go down my own sleigh next to them. They are on their own now - I can ...
Leadership isn’t about having the smartest answers.  image
When you shift from “Here’s what I think we should do” to “What would change if we understood why this keeps happening?”, you stop being the tester with opinions and start being the person who unlo...
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Stefan Dirnstorfer for:
Thank you for donating your article fee to the Scholarship fund! image
Thank you for donating your article fee to the Scholarship fund!
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Adam Foy for:
Thank you for suggesting an improvement on a course activity! image
Thank you for suggesting an improvement on a course activity!
Was a professional member in 2025 image
Was a professional member in 2025
This emoji message instantly freezes some iPhones image
This emoji message instantly freezes some iPhones
CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says image
CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says
Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost image
Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost
High-frequency trading and the $440m mistake image
High-frequency trading and the $440m mistake
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
contributed:
API mocking made easy image
A brand-new professional member course with José Carréra
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 29 image
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 29
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
contributed:
Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 29 image
Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Oleksandr Romanov for:
Thank you for reporting a problem with accessing another member's MoT profile image
Thank you for reporting a problem with accessing another member's MoT profile
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Cassandra H. Leung for:
Thanks for reporting a missing link in the resources section of a module in a certificate. That's been fixed, and now... image
Thanks for reporting a missing link in the resources section of a module in a certificate. That's been fixed, and now folks can easily access a great talk!
Sarah Deery
Sarah Deery
awarded Ujjwal Kumar Singh for:
Thanks for sharing feedback about the user experience of returning to content from the "My learning" page! It's a gre... image
Thanks for sharing feedback about the user experience of returning to content from the "My learning" page! It's a great suggestion that has been shared with the team.
MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation image
MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation
Community Thoughts: What Goes On in QA Team Meetings image
Community Thoughts: What Goes On in QA Team Meetings
Software Testing Heuristics: Mind The Gap! image
Software Testing Heuristics: Mind The Gap!
75+ Testing Practice Websites to Master Software QA in 2024 image
75+ Testing Practice Websites to Master Software QA in 2024
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