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Podcast Episodes

Eggs, toilet seats and fundamental quality career advice - Ep 125 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Gary Hawkes's profile
  • Eamon Droko's profile
  • Nataliia Burmei's profile
  • Judy Mosley's profile
  • Preeti Gupta's profile
  • Shawn Vernier's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Hear honest job-search and career-change stories, pick up confidence-boosting advice from the community, and enjoy the wonderfully weird side-threads that make the MoTaverse feel like home.
Rainbow vomits and AI Guardrails - Ep 124 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Christine Pinto's profile
  • Chris Pratt's profile
  • Nadja Schulz's profile
  • Judy Mosley's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
  • Shawn Vernier's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Cut through the AI hype, swap real guardrail stories, and laugh at the rainbow-vomit moments along the way.
The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Oleksandr Romanov's profile
  • Gary Hawkes's profile
  • Clare Norman's profile
  • Ujjwal Kumar Singh's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Swap your team’s favourite quality superstitions, laugh at cursed demos and disappearing bugs, and turn “don’t deploy on Fridays” from folklore into smarter release habits.
New chapter for chapters: Why in-person community events still matter - Ep 122 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Diana Dromey's profile
  • Chris Pratt's profile
  • Maithilee Chunduri's profile
  • Shawn Vernier's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Reconnect with the MoTaverse through chapters, celebrate what’s changed while Deanna was away, and learn how local events help you grow your network and your craft.
Quality narratives and the circles of consequence - Ep 121 image
  • Cassandra H. Leung's profile
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Judy Mosley's profile
  • Ujjwal Kumar Singh's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
  • Heleen Van Grootven's profile
  • Daria Tsion's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Set meaningful goals, communicate quality through risks and real-world consequences, and turn small wins like building a quality narrative into career growth.
Small posts, big learnings: Why sharing matters more than ever - Ep 120 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Neil Taylor's profile
  • Gary Hawkes's profile
  • Eamon Droko's profile
  • Ayesha Saeed's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
See why sharing small things often is one of the most effective ways to learn and grow in your career
Goals that inspire a quality community - Ep 119 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Discover how testers are using public goals, badges and community support to grow their skills, gain confidence and make progress in 2026
What is the AI–quality–human loop? - Ep 118 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Ben Dowen's profile
  • Gary Hawkes's profile
  • Richard Adams's profile
  • Maithilee Chunduri's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Explore how testers are blending AI with human judgment to improve exploratory testing, sharpen risk thinking, and stay accountable for quality in 2026.
What is TYiQ? Wrong answers only – Ep 117 (End-of-year special) image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Rosie Sherry's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Join the community for a playful look back at the year in quality, with quizzes, stats, and wrong answers only
Zen and the art of quality maintenance - Ep 116 image
  • Ady Stokes's profile
  • Ben Dowen's profile
  • Judy Mosley's profile
  • Demi Van Malcot's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Explore why questioning systems and trusting your judgement still matter in quality engineering and testing.
Quality Coaching: Fizzy minds and quality problems - Ep 115 image
  • Simon Tomes's profile
  • Gary Hawkes's profile
  • Clare Norman's profile
  • Nataliia Burmei's profile
  • TWiQ — This Week in Quality's profile
Discover how Quality Coaching approaches help teams surface, understand and solve their quality problems
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