Suman Bala
Quality Engineering Manager
She/her
I am Open to Write, Teach, Mentor, Speak, CV Reviews, Podcasting
Suman Bala is a Test Architect with a passion for improvement in quality processes and is a strong believer in Test Automation. She feels proud of how people’s perspective has changed regarding testing throughout her career. She is striving to instil the idea that quality is everyone’s responsibility as opposed to merely laying it at the feet of QA. She is a co-organiser for the Ministry of Testing Bucks meet-up. She is a mentor and coach at work and within the wider testing community. She is co-designing and delivering the “Software Testing Bootcamp” sponsored by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
Achievements
Certificates
Level up your software testing and quality engineering skills with the credibility of a Ministry of Testing certification.
Activity
earned:
Member visited Quality Unfiltered Podcast - All Things Test Automation
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Member visited How Can I Test This?
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Certificates career boosts or box ticking exercise
earned:
Member visited Quality Unfiltered Podcast - All Things Test Automation
Contributions
Celebrate the creativity and courage of testers and quality engineers as they share stories, lessons, and ideas in just 99 seconds.
Most conferences end when you walk out the door. hashtag#MoTaCon doesn’t.
It lingers.
- In the conversations that turn into ideas.
- In the ideas that turn into experiments.
- In the people w...
Totally a luck by chance to meet someone who also has a Jaipur connection.
It was wonderful meeting you and seeking feedback from you.
I was surprised to see how quickly you were finding new ...
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...
I have been following Rahul on LinkedIn for sometime now. Finally get to meet him in person!
Talking about Devs writing tests and pair testing during lean coffee at MoTacon 2025.
Suman came ‘home’ to Leeds to speak at Test Up North conference. She pointed out the push back when asking developers to think about testing
Eighteen months, 19 modules, and 59 amazing contributors later, the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certification is complete!
Looking back, my favourite part has been seeing so many community m...
"One thing to keep in mind is that it can be anything. It doesn't have to be the test, but anything that you're automating. It needs to be worth the time that you're putting into it and the mainten...
