99 Second Talks – Day 2 – TestBash Brighton / MoTaCon 2025
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Talk Description
Experience the final round of the 99 Second Talks, a celebration of courage, community, and creativity. In this on-demand session, attendees take the stage to share ideas, lessons, and personal stories in just 99 seconds.
You’ll hear reflections on growth, change, mentorship, accessibility, grief, curiosity, and what it means to belong to the testing community. From heartfelt advice to moments of humour and inspiration, every talk captures the spirit of learning together and supporting one another.
By the end of this session, you'll be able to:
- Recognise how shared stories strengthen the quality community
- Reflect on diverse experiences and lessons from peers in the MoTaverse
- Identify inspiration and ideas you can bring into your own work
Quality Coach | Scrum Master | UX Enthusiast | Tech Blogger | International Speaker | Exploratory Tester | Test Strategist | MoT Content Creator
I've been in the software testing & quality world since 1997 and love it. I'm a senior leader, a coach, international speaker, workshop facilitator, writer & founder of Quality Talks.
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.
Elizabeth sets out to prove that when “it should just work” it actually does. She's the go-to person for thinking critically about what’s being built and creating a common understanding.
Keith Klain has built software quality management and testing teams for global financial services and consulting firms in the US, UK, and Asia Pacific. He helps enterprise technology organizations increase their business value through process efficiency, increased automation, and alignment of IT strategy to business objectives. He has designed and delivered technology training curriculum for non-profits to build technology delivery centers in disadvantaged communities. He was the Executive Vice President of the Association for Software Testing and the recipient of the 2013 Software Test Professionals Luminary award.
Originally from Portugal but call Manchester UK my home.
I love meeting people, hosting friends and family, snowboarding, food, binge-watching sci-fi TV shows, photography, my family and life itself!
STEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter host. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
I've been testing for 20+ years with experience in Exploratory Testing and tools such as CI/CD, Bruno and Postman. I'm a self-taught pianist and enjoy writing and recording my own music.
North West based Quality Coach. Started off as a tester when Dinosaurs roamed the earth. Now working at Coop
I've been testing for over 10 years and API testing is my favourite.
I believe testers/quality people are the BEST humans and always bring hope to my half glass empty soul.
Fell into testing after getting a temporary job doing UAT and discovered he was actually good at it. Moved into development after deciding that the best way to build quality in was to do it.
Marie Cruz is a Software Tester with over 10 years of experience and the co-author of the book Contract Testing in Action. Currently, she works as a Senior Developer Advocate at Grafana Labs.
Passionate about quality & testing. Creator of Threat Agents card game and regularly found chatting cyber security.
QA Engineer working for Two Circles
I love talking about how building Quality in continuously from the start can help us to deliver great software through a strategic blend of exploratory testing, automation, and quality coaching.
Quality Engineering Leader | 19+ Years in QA Transformation | Test Management | Global Team Leadership | AI-Driven Testing | Driving Innovation & High-Quality Solutions
A creative QA with 12+ years of experience building quality across teams.
Experience across multiple industries with a focus on thinking of quality from the start.
Automation-savvy QE with a sixth sense for bugs. Avid learner and reader interested in decoding dev-speak to enable engineering teams. I believe good software starts with user-focused problem solving.
I'm a QA tester with a keen interest in accessibility, AI and role it plays in creating ease of access to individuals with disabilities.
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I am a strong advocate for quality and accessibility, working with teams to build and test inclusive products and services.
Quality coach at the Co-op. Bridging the gap between the disciplines and questioning everything, ensuring teams build the right thing, at the right time, for the right reasons.
I am having 17+ years of experience in software quality assurance, test automation, and team leadership and management
20 odd years experience in software engineering, with a particular interest in testing and software quality.
A big fan of the modern testing principles.
CEO revolutionizing software testing at Epic Test Quest. From battling fentanyl crises to saving wildlife, I'm turning tech innovation into global impact. Join me in making testing epic!
I started WonderProxy to help my friend in QA test our company's website from around the world so he would stop having to work late, and could give me a ride home.
QE with a passion for building quality in from day one. Love making sites accessible to everyone. Always curious, always learning 👩🏻💻
Full time tester, part time Electrical Engineer
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