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Our role as quality people is shifting.

Thank you for going above and beyond in July 2025. Team MoT sees you and appreciates you, as does the community. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.

The transition from specialist to generalist

Our role as quality people is shifting.

Great to see your article live in the MoTaverse. Bug congrats! When hiring software testers doesn't work (and what to do BEFORE you hire them)

Great to see you keeping the convo going around your recent article, via this Club post: Do you think there are organizations that genuinely don’t need software testers? What makes the difference? 

Find out how a large, cross-functional tech team unified testing to improve quality at scale

Discover how becoming aware of your organisation’s hidden map of influence can help you challenge bad metrics and lead with quality.

We've made updates to our job board it's designed for the community to share software testing and quality engineering jobs they find, rather than expecting companies to be posting them. For quit...

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When hiring software testers doesn't work (and what to do BEFORE you hire them)

Find out what’s really behind testing hires that fail (hint: it’s rarely because the tester couldn’t handle the job!)

Explore how to challenge unhealthy levels of team conformity and help your team make better decisions earlier

Half-Baked, Fully Shipped: When Big Means Small (And Why Quality Definitions Matter)

People talk about bundling and then unbundling in the startup and software space. COVID had a ton of unbundling happening. Now we are seeing the bundling as people look to do reduce their tool s...

As teased yesterday, I made a rug of Bug!

Step up to the rug with new leadership insights. Plus, highlights of the previous week in the MoTaverse.

Wherever there is care, quality arises. When we don't care, we don't pay attention, which means we stop seeing the things that really matter. The biggest thing we can do to achieve good quali...

On September 30th, in Brighton, we're hosting an educational experience for leaders in quality. Learn more about it here: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/events/leading-with-quality We'd lo...

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Sometimes the interview experience just all falls into place

Thanks for sharing job adverts in the MoT Slack.  

What's your metrics culture like?

The golden age of quality is here. Plus, highlights of the previous week in the MoTaverse.

Are your quality metrics lying to you?

Thanks for getting involved on The Club this week. 

Found a Bug in the Wild. Also, a Racist.

Thanks for spotting a last name typo in MoTaverse Weekly. Sorry about that. 🙈

The image is a meme depicting a highway sign and a car. The top half shows a green highway sign with two arrows. The left arrow points straight ahead to "Important busy things" and "EXIT 12". The...

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All of a sudden MoT STEC (Software Testing Essentials Certification) doubles its value.

Quality Engineers could be biting off more than they can chew. Plus, highlights of the previous week in the MoTaverse.

Thanks for being super active on The Club this week.

Hey everyone, We've got some exciting news for those of you who have faced unemployment this year and are looking to connect, learn, and grow in the testing and quality engineering world. We're ...

Thank you for going above and beyond in June 2025. Team MoT sees you and appreciates you. Your positive impact and interactions make a difference.

Susanne Abdelrahman reality checks the growth in responsibility for QA/quality folks. She also shares a helpful car analogy during her conversation with Rosie Sherry. Susanne Abdelrahman: Wh...

How do we cope with the increase in scope?

Susanne Abdelrahman reality checks the growth in responsibility for QA/quality folks. She also shares a helpful car analogy during her conversation with Rosie Sherry. Susanne Abdelrahman: Wh...

Unpack how leading with quality means staying clear on scope, making trade-offs, and influencing without authority.

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Susanne Abdelrahman: What does decision making have to do with quality?

Unpack how leading with quality means staying clear on scope, making trade-offs, and influencing without authority.

In search of quality. And in having conversations about leading with quality. I can't help but think about software quality. It is out there. And each conversation helps formulate my th...

Quality is out there