👋 Introductions Thread – Q1 2025

Better late than never. :sweat_smile:

Hello, I’m Simon Tomes, Community Lead at Ministry of Testing.

Thanks for stopping by and reading this thread. :smiley:

We start a new introductions thread for folks to introduce or reintroduce themselves to the community every quarter.

  • What brings you to The Club and Ministry of Testing community?
  • What are you excited about right now?
  • What do you want to learn?
  • Where are you based?
  • What else could you share about yourself?

You don’t have to answer all these questions. Reply in a way that works for you. Use text, video, drawings, AI-generated images, memes or whatever.

We appreciate some folks stepping away for a while and returning. It’ll be great to hear from you again. :slightly_smiling_face:

P.S. share a link to your MoT profile page! Here’s mine.

  1. Visit My MoT
  2. Ensure “Make Private” is switched off
  3. Select your name
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Hi! I’m Judy Mosley. I’m a QA Engineer at TextUs. I live right outside of Louisville KY where I enjoy the food, the outdoors, reading, and listening to podcasts. I also drink far too much coffee.

I’ve been a fan of MOT for years but only recently started contributing to the community. I’m learning so much and I’m happy to share what I learn to help it all come full circle.

I’m very much a “boots on the ground” QA. So, I know what I know but I don’t always know if what I know is correct :sweat_smile: or a good practice. So thankful to be honest about my current skillset so others can (kindly) point out a better direction.

Here’s my MOT profile: Judy Mosley | jmosley5 | Ministry of Testing
Happy to connect on LinkedIn: ☕ Judy Mosley - TextUs | LinkedIn
And, delighted to discuss anything related to food or any weird fun fact you’ve learned about life lately.

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Hi Everyone,

I am Ujjwal Kumar Singh, working as an SDET at a FinTech company in Gurgaon, India. I joined the Ministry of Testing last year out of curiosity, aiming to expand my network and connect with like-minded testers. Over the past year, I had the opportunity to meet some amazing people through this community and gain valuable insights on various topics.

Currently, I’m exploring AI in testing and hence I’m excited about the same. I have also recently started contributing to open-source projects and plan to be more involved this year.

Here is my MoT profile: MoT Profile Link

I am always open to engaging in discussions, feel free to connect.

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Alright peeps! I’m Gary Hawkes, QA Lead at Ito World (remote), I’m based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. I’ve been dipping in and out of MOT over the years, but I’m back because I’m at a point in my career I need more professionally than just my job.
To summarise my career, its been a game of pinball: started in accounts, bounced into IT Support, bounced into software development (when Visual Basic was cool), bounced into dev management, bounced into QA management, bounced into test automation, bounced back into QA management, bounced into automated testing, bounced back into management…then I thought I better stay there as that seems to be where I get the most joy.
That joy comes from working to understand people, helping them make better, more valuable versions of themselves - personally and professionally. The broad spectrum of my random unplanned career means I can give guidance on most things, which is 99% how to approach problems - not necessarily that I have the solution.

Other than that, I’m a trombone playing, singing, darts playing, codeword loving, book reading kind of weirdo that loves to smile and see others smile. You can talk to me about anything. :grin:

My profile is thus and linkedin

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Hi everyone,
My name is Fieke de Vreede, I’m a test engineer from The Netherlands. I’m currently working for DUO (Dutch governmental organisation, part of the Ministry of Education), which is based in Groningen.

When I took my first steps in testing some three years ago, I quickly came across MoT and I would like to contribute more to the MoTaverse this coming year. I really like the community vibe of MoT and all the wonderful resources it provides to learn and to connect with other testers. Would also really love to attend TestBash this year, trying my best to convince management I cannot miss it :slight_smile: I have also sent in a talk proposal, so… who knows? Fingers crossed!

Right now I am learning a lot about frontend testing, whereas I started out with backend testing. I have recently switched to another DevOps team in my organisation, so I am learning tonnes of other new things too. Which I love!

Before I was a test engineer, I used to work as a teacher of English at a secondary school. So if you’re interested in knowing what it’s like working with a bunch of teenagers in a classroom in NL, let me know :upside_down_face:

Feel free to visit my LinkedIN or my MoT profile

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Hi all!

I’m Eamon Droko and I’m a QA Engineer based in London,UK.

This is only my second post on The Club and what brings me here is a desire to engage and connect with the Testing community, both in-person and online.

I recently attended the MoT London meetup and it was so great to speak with so many interesting people from different walks of life but all connected by QA and Testing. I left feeling so inspired and energised - I’m even in the process of writing an article that will hopefully be on the MoT site (Thanks to Simon for the encouragement!)

I’m currently looking for a new QA role so thinking about things to learn has been a bit of a challenge lately. So many companies want different things but a post I made on LinkedIn recently got so many great responses from the community on where to focus my learning.

Outside QA things, I’d describe myself as very active. I love going to the gym, bouldering and long walks. I’m a huge gamer with Street Fighter 6 being my go-to these days. I’m also a huge fan of anime and manga with over 200 manga volumes on my bookshelf at home.

Here’s a link to my MOT profile and my LinkedIn

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