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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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A family STEM project: Learning monitoring and observability with your child (and a plant!)
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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...
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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...
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Recording in action: Lewis Prescott on Contract Testing – Coming soon!
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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...
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Manish Saini shares a wonderful analogy in STEC Module 16, Lesson 1: What is technical testing?
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Thanks for uplifting a writer and giving feedback on their article
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Myself, Mariem and Ben in the Green Room before MoT Tunis Online.
Simon Tomes appears to be there in spirit!
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What do testers do?
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This badge is awarded to members who choose to visibly support Pride on their Ministry of Testing profile.
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Thanks for letting us know about the typo :)
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Earned through actions that have made the MoT Community a more pleasant and useful place to be.
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Achieving one or more Community Stars in five or more unique months
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Thank you for helping expand the glossary!
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A discussion on TWIT had me wondering what 'Grey Box Testing' was.
Luckily, some lovely people were on hand to answer my question!
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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...
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"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...
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Thanks for feeding back to us on how writing with us has helped you!
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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 ...
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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...
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Thank you for donating your article fee to the Scholarship fund!
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Thank you for suggesting an improvement on a course activity!
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Was a professional member in 2025
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This emoji message instantly freezes some iPhones
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CrowdStrike IT outage affected 8.5 million Windows devices, Microsoft says
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Excel: Why using Microsoft's tool caused Covid-19 results to be lost
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High-frequency trading and the $440m mistake
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A brand-new professional member course with José Carréra
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Where's Bug and Cosmo? – No. 29
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Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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Thank you for reporting a problem with accessing another member's MoT profile
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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!
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 great suggestion that has been shared with the team.
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MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation
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Community Thoughts: What Goes On in QA Team Meetings
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30 Days of Career Growth
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Software Testing Heuristics: Mind The Gap!
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75+ Testing Practice Websites to Master Software QA in 2024
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Cheers for the feedback on the automation cert!
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Thanks for giving helpful feedback on writing with MoT
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Found two bugs in the article submission typeform
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Gave an idea for enhancing profiles by adding a job history section
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Shared memory on LinkedIn
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Offering one-to-one support over a call to help a learner taking an MoT cert
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STEC in the sunshine!
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It was lovely to catch up with The Testing Mermaid
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Showing Sarah the bug in my article
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The wonderful TestBash 2024 ambassadors
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That just-finished-a-talk feeling
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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...
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