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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.
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Thank you for reporting a typo on the MoT site! ⭐️
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I’m coming from: Amsterdam, Netherlands
My role is: QA Tester
I’d love to meet others who are into: challenging, improving and sharing
I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as a: Attendee
I’ve been to T...
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Thank you for providing a detailed bug report when viewing a certificate on mobile; it's very helpful! 👏
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Thank you, Jesper, for spreading the word about STEC on your blog! It's a game-changer for testing and quality education, and I really appreciate you sharing that message with others 🫶
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Thank you, Mariem, for spreading the word about STEC! It's a game-changer for testing and quality education, and I really appreciate you sharing it with others 🫶
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Bug congrats on shipping Rahul Parwal's latest course: Advanced prompting for testers. 🎉I gotta good feeling this one will be super popular!
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New course launch 🚀: Advanced prompting for testers
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Advanced prompting skills to turn AI into your trusted testing companion
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When testing, how much thinking about thinking do you do?
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Doing this certification was cool, haha!! I'm Software Testing Essentials Certified (STEC) !!
Thanks guys, for creating an opportunity to contribute to this certificate. Got to know a lot of "ho...
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Amazing work crafting the multiple-choice questions for STEC. They are spot on!
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This badge is awarded to members who confirm their tickets to Leading with Quality 2025
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Have you used HIL or SIL in your embedded testing workflow? What was your biggest challenge?
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Thank you for reporting a problem with an exam, and for caring enough to share.
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Master software QA with our massive collection of 75+ practice websites. Level up your automation, API, security & performance testing skills on real testing playgrounds.
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Thank you for going above and beyond in August 2025. The rest of Team MoT and the community see you and appreciate you. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.
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I'm STEC certified!
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I'm happy to share that I have successfully completed the course and passed the test for Software Testing Essentials (STEC). I wanted to be the first to be STEC Certified but someone else beat me t...
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Nice one on shipping Mark Winteringham's new course!
awarded Rahul Parwal for:
Thanks for letting me know about the incorrect link in a news post :)
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This badge is awarded to members who update their social links on their profile.
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This badge is awarded to members who add their pronouns to their member profile, helping create a more inclusive community.
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Amazing work getting Mark Winteringham's course live: First request to test suite: 30 days to API testing confidence.The audio format is great! I have a good feeling that this course is going to help a lot of people.
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Here in the US, some may call it Pumpkin Spice season. Here at MoT, we call it STEC season! What is STEC? It's the Software Testing Essentials Certificate. For so long, testers only had the ISTQB l...
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Gain API testing confidence with this hands-on podcast course, featuring 30 ten-minute activities that build your skills step by step.
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STEC STEC STEC - TWiT Episode 102
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Great episode where we had insights all about STEC - the lessons and topics as part of STEC.
More interestingly, I can't miss to mention the coincidence of matching our hosts name and the topic t...
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Tired of ISTQB? Take the STEC path! Ep 102
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Explore the making of STEC, hear behind-the-scenes stories from its creators, and celebrate how this new certificate challenges the old ISTQB path.
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This badge is awarded to members who publish their first article on the Ministry of Testing site
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Absolute STEC legend. Thank you for leading the way. 🤩
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Woohay! Very cool to co-host TWiT with you today. Thank you! 🤩
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This badge is awarded to members who host an episode of This Week in Quality.
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I'm only two modules in but STEC is great so far, congrats on completing it after 18 months of hard work!
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For everything you've put into making STEC happen
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Found this week's TWiT really interesting, thanks for telling us more about STEC
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Thanks Sarah for all the amazing work you did for STEC !! Highly appreciated
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Thanks for shipping STEC! STEC, STEC, STEC.
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Love the glossary Gherkin artwork 😆
awarded Mark Gibson for:
Thank you for reporting typos in a certificate... very detailed feedback, too! Very easy to fix, thanks!
awarded Adam Foy for:
Thank you for keeping up with reporting helpful and detailed feedback on certificates
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What makes APIs tricky when you’re just starting out?
awarded Mara Brownlee for:
Thank you for regularly contributing to the activities in MoT-STEC! Your contributions are really valuable and give lots of ideas to fellow learners 🙏
awarded Adam Foy for:
Thank you very much for giving us helpful feedback about our certificates! ⭐️
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What mistakes have you made that were painful at the time, but made you a better person, tester, or leader?
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The "Testing using oracles" STEC lesson by Lena Nyström is an important one. She expertly works with many types of oracles during Lesson 4 of Module 10 of STEC (Software Testing Essentials Certific...
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Notes of key moments and learnings from Leading with Quality - Podcast, where the guest was Deborah Sherwood
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