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Had An amazing time at MoTaCon 2025, did a first ever talk at a conference and had amazing support!

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

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STEC is complete 🎉: 19 modules, 58 voices, and jam packed portfolio to show your growth

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...

Code is still code

"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...

Landing a Job on The New Island - Suman Bala

Bing! Goes a Brain Wave (Heuristics and Mnemonics for Mobile Apps)

Breaking Boundaries Using Charles - Suman Bala

EXCITING OPPORTUNITY: Senior SDET at Leighton I joined Leighton just 3 months ago, and I've been completely blown away by the support I've received both from the Leighton team and our clients. Now we're looking for a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) for another client!What you'll bring:* Deep expertise in mobile testing with Appium* Strong Maven experience for build & dependency management* Java programming skills for robust test automation* Rest Assured proficiency for API testing across microservices* Leadership ability to drive solutions in a collaborative environmentIf you're passionate about quality and looking to make an impact in a dynamic team, this could be your next career move! DM me if you are interested or have any questions :)Link to the JD: https://leighton.talosats-careers.com/job/705701Location - Remote, UK

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Examples of how to test different sites and apps, along with the test heuristics applied, the reasoning and tool ideas. Nicola Lindgren, Mike Harris, Suman Bala, Philip Wong, and Shawn Shaligram

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Boost your career in software testing with the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate. Learn essential skills, from basic testing techniques to advanced risk analysis, crafted by industry experts.

Identify the Pros & Cons of UI Automation from the UI Automation Week 2021 with Suman Bala

In this talk, Suman shares her experiences in job hunting when she moved to the UK in 2014 and the tips on how to land a job on a new island.

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Suman shares heuristics that can aid you with your mobile testing

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Learn how to get started with Contract testing and Pact

Learn the different building blocks to consider when designing an automated check

Learn the power of code reviews and how they can help you with your testing

Learn how to break up flows through our systems to help us identify what automated checks to build on what layer

Learn how note taking is an essential skill for capturing and communicating your testing

Learn how as testers we can test beyond the product and test requirements and ideas

Learn about the characteristics that make a valuable automation strategy

How, as a tester, do you come up with different ideas and questions to probe and explore ideas and products? In this workshop we'll explore the testers mindset and how to come up with test ideas

If your team is navigating cultural change or is adopting processes like DevOps, this workshop will help you develop the steps to build a culture of quality on your team

Testers deal with risk every day, whether it's identifying Risks, mitigating them or testing to uncover new ones. That's why in this workshop we'll learn what risk is and how to discover them

Understand what type of strategy style is best for a project and get your team involved

How can you automate a product if you don't know how it works? In this workshop we explore how to capture and share technical knowledge of a system for an automation strategy

I will guide you through using an HTTP proxy to test scenarios you wouldn't be able to test just through the UI. I will show you that tinkering with APIs is actually easy and fun

The success of automation is directly related to how automatable a product is. In this workshops we'll learn what automatability is, how to analyse it and use that knowledge in our strategies

Testability is the foundation of a good automation strategy, which means understanding what Testability is and how to analyse it in a given context

Our Panel Discussions allow you to get direct support from our community gurus, so join and get your Test Leadership questions ready!

Butch has been leading teams over the past 6 years in several different contexts, take this opportunity to ask questions, and learn what it takes to be a successful leader

Learn how approval testing can be more effective than traditional assertion-based test automation

A guide through the fundamentals of understanding and writing SQL

Have you have felt the need to share everything you’ve learnt with your colleagues and don't know ho to? Louise Gibbs will show how she does it with this 99-minute workshop

Join us to prepare and deliver a 99 Minute workshop whilst learning the secrets to delivering a successful online workshop

Join us this year for our worldwide 24 hours online TestBash software testing conference

Always wondered how the version control system Git works? Simon has all the answers

One way to help our teams and peers avoid falling into the trap of burnout is to start making good mental health habits a part of everyday practices.

During this workshop, we will look at factors that influence your test strategy. We will look at rapid modelling and using heuristics that enable us to think fast