I’m a great tour guide, just saying… 
You’re all very welcome to visit and I’ll show you around the best places and the best food!
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Hello 
I’m Dan,
Ive been testing for 20 years and 2023 had a career break after my work team was decommissioned.
Im an avid:
- reader of History, and books describing how “things went wrong”
- Hobbyist with technology
- Bike rider
- Game night’s with my family
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Hi, I’m Heather from Missouri, USA.
I’m new to MoT and kind of to testing in general. I was in a development position for a year that was mostly writing automation tests, but then I got sick and had to take a couple of years off. Now I’m trying to get myself back to a marketable place, so I can find a job. It feels like I am starting from scratch, and it is very overwhelming at times, but I keep plugging away at it.
I found MoT because I was looking for a testing community that I could turn to with questions or to connect to other testers. I get bad imposter syndrome and the best way I know to counteract that is to talk to other people in the field and get some cheer leaders in your corner. I hope to do the same for others. 
Outside of testing, I like to do creative things like painting and embroidery, I have 3 cats, and I like to write.
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Hi
I’m Rebecca, based in the south of England
I’ve been in testing for 6 years across 4 different companies. I previously worked in Neuroscience research.
Most of my testing experience is within manual testing. I’ve had the advantage of testing a variety of different applications and I like to deep dive into the best approach for whatever area I’m currently working in.
I’m currently trying to build up my automation knowledge and understanding, but with automation I’d like to get a good grasp of the why and when.
As to the what else, I have ADHD and I’m likely ASD. I feel like they give me an advantage in testing as I see things from a different direction.
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Hello!
I should probably introduce myself since I’ve started posting after lurking for ages 
My name is Adam - I’m a senior QA engineer based in Liverpool UK but working remotely. I got into QA almost 8 years ago through the backdoor of production support. Before QA and support I worked in contact centres (aka hell on earth!) whilst studying at University.
My QA comfort zone is testing Java microservices related to payment processing.
I’ve had a bit of experience as a pseudo-QA lead but I’m much happier as an engineer (fewer meetings, more playing with code!).
I was hoping to attend TestBash Liverpool but I got a new job before my employer had signed off on it 
Outside of QA my biggest interests are probably gaming, films/TV, music (listening to/playing) and of course spending time with friends/family.
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Baaaaak
Software dev for 15 years, QA for 15 years. I have two MOT accounts and I’m back to using my old account from ~2021, which well, reasons.
I love this community, and am amazed at how it has grown hugely in 2023, would love to know what the team did to make that happen.
But, on-topic. I’m an automation-of-all-of-the-things person, and have tested mainly on diverse platforms, Embedded, Mobile, and Remote Control desktop applications. As a long time coder, my day job involves building glue between or building tools themselves. I do very little manual testing, and also love the OPS side of being an SDET. I’m a fair bit of a rabbit-holler person, and like most of us a tad ADHD, oh and I’m also a #BellRinger .
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Hi everyone, I’m Axel.
I’m based in the Netherlands and have been working in testing for a couple of years now. Started from purely manual testing and through reading all the resources I could and experimenting I have been adding slowly more automation ever since. I am now a QA lead and building a team.
I am always looking for the best solution to automate all the automatable - I played around with code-light solutions such as Selenium IDE and Ghost Inspector and frameworks like WebdriverIO and Appium. Lately, I’ve been experimenting with Cypress.
I’ve been looking for a while for a testing community and stumbled upon MoT, and was immediately (and positively ) impressed by the quality of discussion, so here I am joining and introducing myself 
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Thanks for joining and introducing yourself!
I’m curious (as the founder here), how did you ‘stumbleupon’ MoT?
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I was digging around the Internet for defect metrics/bugs categorization/analyzing user impact of defects and related topics, and there were a number of (now archived) posts from MoT that were quite interesting
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Hi there, my name is Dan, I am From B.C. Canada.
I have been in the agriculture, culinary and health food industry for the last 20 years and decided to change careers. I am very interested in software development and wanted a good introduction to QA testing so Chat GPT sent me here!
I hope to use these teachings as a foundation for future education and welcome any suggestions folks have for resources that helped them further their career and knowledge base.
Bless
Dan
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Welcome to the Most awesome software QA community that ChatGPT knows about. Probably the first question it got right today, ha ha.
So what rotated you out of agriculture and nutrition into software, you do know that it’s almost just as muddy in some ways. Once again welcome @dtestbeginsnow .
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Ah, it’s so good to know that ChatGPT is helping us out!
And welcome!
I’d love to know what your current and biggest questions are, we’re currently working on some foundational courses and I love to assume nothing.
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@conrad.braam I’m all for getting muddy! The main reason I am shifting into this is that I hit a ceiling with the knowledge base and want to flex my brain. Also AI is super cool and I would love to get a sneak peak at projects going on behind the scene.
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@rosie Thanks!
Well I guess my current and major questions would be where do I go after this introduction? I want to focus on QA testing for AI companies so what languages do I need to know to maximize my potential to be sought after by good companies? Also what is the range of income I can make in this field?
Very much appreciate your support @conrad.braam @rosie
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Hi @dtestbeginsnow. Great to have you share on The Club and get a sense of what you’re looking to do with your career. Congrats on deciding to make a change!
I recommend exploring/starting 30 Days of Career Growth. It’s helped a lot of people get clarity on where they want to take their careers. There’s also the bonus that the community has shared all sorts already, via The Club posts. So you might seek inspiration from everything that’s come before.
Good luck and do keep us posted on how things progress. The community has got your back! 
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Hello, Christian here from Ghana. I am interested in developing a career in software testing and QA. I want to learn all i can in this regard and like I said i am from Ghana. I started out with studying education in computer science, currently working in an IT company that develops software but do not have any Software tester or QA personnel and would like to learn and make myself of added benefit to the company.
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Hey everyone,
I am Kaan Altıntaş, and I’m from Turkey. I worked two years in a firm as a business analyst → technical purchasing specialist in their hardware team. Despite wanting to start my career in hardware (until my military service was due), I always felt closer to software development and languages in general, and I’ve been performing as a semi-tester/semi-developer in a modding team for a 17-years old game for four years now.
Overall, I’m not unfamiliar to the software development and testing concepts, and I gained basic to intermediate knowledge about programming in my college lectures. I have a bit of fascination with things that I know little about and WON’T have much to do with what I’ll be doing in the long run, but I think chasing after what I don’t know will be a curse I’ll be bearing with me for the foreseeable future - hence the hardware detour.
With my military service out of the way and my earlier job terminated, I thought it was a good idea to focus on my original plan now. Even though I’m a bit late at it (unemployed for 6 months now, though two of them was due to military service and had house-related issues to take care of until the new year), I’ve gone over the ISTQB CTFL syllabus, researched about and gained some basic knowledge in Selenium and Testrail, and now I intend to gain more practical experience and knowledge in software testing in general. This platform feels like the perfect place to start my next (and most important) leg of my career switch into a software tester, and I am eager to learn and share with all of you. I hope I’ll be able to contribute here as much as I learn from here in time.
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Welcome Kaan! I spent a wonderful month in Istanbul a few years back! Im always itching to take another trip.
Participating in enthusiast projects is a great way to practice test and QA skills! keep at it!
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Heya, Poojitha here, from India 
. I have been into this exciting community to explore and chat with our QA Community on different testing technologies/ways.
I am a functional tester using Cypress/BrowserStack mostly for UI Testing. These days trying to know about Performance testing using JMeter tool.
Apart from this I would doodle when I got some time. Also I am interested to know about cosmos 
a bit, like are we right now truly living on a celestial object or in a simulation that we’re on a piece of a livable bubble. Ugh, for more info about me you can check out my Linked Page here & connect right away 
. Cheers!
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Hi @sujjipuli,
Welcome to the community. 
How did you get on with the ISTQB certification? What were your key learnings? What have you applied since?
Hey there, @glgeorgiou,
Thanks for sharing on this thread. What is it about the UTest community that you enjoy?
Welcome, @alex121.
I’m always fascinated by the challenges that come with hardware testing. It seems like we could do with more discussions around that.
Sup, Michael. So glad you’re part of this community. Been enjoying all the things you’ve shared since posting this. Thank you. 
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