Mr Stephen P Platten
Principal Consultant
I am Open to Podcasting, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Speak, Mentor
I am an award winning (European Software Testing awards, TESTA) tester and QA, with a passion to the best version of myself:
"The best manager, tester, and coach I can be, to be "The Stoic Tester."
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 98%
Activity
earned:
Agentic QE: From AI Assistant to AI Workforce
earned:
Member visited Testing Management: QA Leadership Skills for Sustainable Quality
earned:
Agentic QE: From AI Assistant to AI Workforce
registered for:
A paradigm shift from using AI as a coding assistant to directing AI agents as an intelligent workforce
achieved:
Awarded for successfully passing the MoT Software Testing Essentials Certification
Contributions
Explore the parallels between the lessons Stephen learnt in the RAF and his current work.
I'm super excited to anounce our 2026 Ambassadors!!
Make sure to follow them on the MoTaverse.
And the 2026 Ambassadors of the MoTaverse are...........
- Ady Stokes
- Ben Dowen
- Cassandr...
Stephen did a talk called "Stoicism & Software Testing: Ancient Philosophy Meets Modern Methods"
Earlier in the MoTaverse he did a 404 talk on the topic, which I enjoyed watching. I wanted t...
I'm a fan and advocate of Stoicism an ancient Greek philosophy
