Simon Rigler
QA Leader + Coach + Engineer
Bitten by the Testing bug 🐞via a 'fell into it' secondment in 2004. I’ve since had a variety of roles and been in ‘Quality’ leadership positions since 2012. Being hands-on is in my DNA, I don’t wish to lead any other way. In recent years I’ve learned test automation development skills alongside the management role and I enjoy coaching interested people embarking on this technical testing journey 💜
Achievements
Certificates
Level up your software testing and quality engineering skills with the credibility of a Ministry of Testing certification.
Activity
earned:
Call for Insights turns 45
earned:
Nice one for completing the triple! Three Call for Insights published on the MoTaverse. 🤩🤩🤩
earned:
Task management and attitude complete the art of learning
earned:
Task management and attitude complete the art of learning
earned:
Task management and attitude complete the art of learning
Contributions
The MSTA technical learning model brings motivation, strategy, task management and attitude together
What actually sustains technical learning once the novelty fades?
On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later I’d done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...
Check the status of your technical skills
Simon Rigler on stage doing a 99 second talk.
Celebrate the creativity and courage of testers and quality engineers as they share stories, lessons, and ideas in just 99 seconds.
02/10/25.
It's Thursday. The time is 16:03. It's Day 2 of MoTaCon. And I've never seen the 99-Second Talks queue grow so quickly. And even after this photo more people turned up.
Such is the...
Enjoying the banter, chemistry and passion for testing, quality and people, from the, err, Morecambe and Wise of our industry ⭐️👏🏽
Catching up with Simon, Mark and Nic from Co-op, discussing MoTaCon plus bonus items of pub encounters this week, including over-friendly newly weds and unusual deposits.
I’m coming from: Worthing
My role is: Complicated?!
As much as possible I try to do: hands on automated test development, exploratory testing of any kind, and supporting the surrounding infr...
Can you find Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull?
Serious learning faces in action during a TestBash 2024 workshop.
