Hey there! I’m Judy. I’ve been around for a while now and really appreciate the testing community. I’ve been in Quality for 9 years and am enjoying the ride.
I’m currently taking the Software Testers Essentials Certificate with Ministry of Testing!
I really appreciate being able to interact with the MoT community, either by asking questions or commenting in this space or boosting other people’s thoughts and ideas on the socials! If you need help or feel stuck in some way, these are the people you want in your corner.
I drink a lot of coffee, listen to a lot of podcasts, enjoy my family, crochet during meetings, and love to read content covering lots of different topics. Happy to meet you, if you’re new!!
Hello! Here’s my re-introduction. I’ve been away for a while but it’s time to come back
What brings you to the Ministry of Testing community?
What are you excited about right now? - psychology of users and how they interact with our software
What do you want to learn? - more psychology! STEC is on my list for 2026
Where are you based? - Beautiful North Wales
What else could you share about yourself? - I’ve spoken about quality coaching, mental health and my current focus is all about adding joy to our software. I like meeting new people and making connections.
How can the MoTaverse help you? - I may or may not be asking questions about joy in software, I’d love to hear your examples
How can you help expand the MoTaverse? - ask me anything! Talk to me about what you’re learning I’d love to hear about it. Want to pair on something? Send me a message! Consider me your pink rubber duck
Reintroducing myself, since I joined in July this year, it has been amazing so far. I have been following MOT since 2019, however made account this July.
Made few contributions along the way: Checkout contributions in MoT profile!
Made so many wonderful connections.
Gives me joy to share my learnings and insights especially with new testers and be able to help them. I am open to CV reviews and guide regarding early Testing extravaganza, feel free to reach out!
It helps to stay up to date with the latest testing trends all at one place. Thanks to the MoT team as always!
I’m Eamon Droko. A QA Engineer that works for Two Circles (My first intro thread where I can say that I have a QA job )
I’ve been in QA and Testing for almost 8 years with this being my first year truly embedded in the MoT community.
What brings you to the Ministry of Testing community?
I originally joined while looking for a new role as the traditional way of applying to jobs online wasn’t really working for me and I wanted to try a bit of networking. What I found was a super inclusive, welcoming and supportive community that not only helped me find a new role, but opened me up to so many opportunities such as podcasting and public speaking.
What are you excited about right now?
I’m just over two months into my new role and I still have that buzz to start every day and try something new out. Currently, that would be Browserstack.
What do you want to learn?
Right now, I’m dipping my toes into accessibility testing (currently trying to integrate Browserstack accessibility automated tests into our Appium repo), CI/CD (specifically Github Actions) and risk analysis.
Where are you based?
I’m based in London, UK but I’m originally from Leeds, UK.
What else could you share about yourself?
I’m a regular at the MoT London meetups and I’m trying to do 99, 99 second talks in my whole life (I think I’m at 7 right now so a long way to go!)
How can the MoTaverse help you?
The MoTaverse has done more than help me. It’s really changed the course of my career so I’m trying to pay that forward and support people within the community and tell others that aren’t a part of it to get involved!
How can you help expand the MoTaverse?
I’ve already pointed several people to the MoT. Telling people about the amazing scholarship programme if they’re job seekers and I try to have chats with people in the community if they’re having a hard time in their job search as that really helped me.
I’ve got a calendar link in my MoT profile so anyone that’s keen can give me a shout
Heeeyy everyone I’m Gary Hawkes from Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England,
I’ve been a QA Lead for over 20 years and have been working for nearly 40 as an accounts clerk, It support, developer and eventually found my home in Quality in 2004.
I returned to the MoTaverse this year and thats all explained in my latest blog post. So I’m here to give to this community. The bonus is I’m learning and growing as a result. So ask me anything anytime. I’m open for more podcasts, open chats, articles all the time but my 2026 ambition is to do a talk that truly helps people leaders. Its a big ask as I still am shocked with what I’ve achieved so far, thanks to this amazing community.
I’m music mad, always listening to music my taste has widened significantly (lets just say I stretch from old ballads to hard rock) but I’m mainly a rocker . I also play the trombone in my spare time…and I sing a little bit.
Hello folks, I’m Ady Stokes. I’m a Ministry of Testing Ambassador and have been in software testing for 22 years or so. I’m an accessibility advocate, a strong believer in being a generalist, and looking into how we think about testing and the work that goes into testing before we test. I also believe that as testers, we have multiple mindsets, and you can read about that in my latest article, I think, therefore I test, link below.
I’m really happy to be here! I’m a problem solver at heart, someone who’s done a little bit of everything — support, manual QA, automation, operations-automation, and even regulation in software. Seriously, throw me a ball and I’ll catch it!
What brings me to the MoT community?
I love being surrounded by curious testers who share ideas and challenge each other. It’s the perfect place to grow and have fun!
What am I excited about right now?
I’m in that “next adventure” phase, looking for my next challenge. I’m especially excited about how AI is embedded in testing.
What do I want to learn?
I want to dive deeper into automation and utilize AI use in testing.
Where am I based?
I’m based in Europe! (keeping it a bit mysterious )
What else?
I love writing about testing! You’ll find me sharing thoughts, knowledge perks on my blog and LinkedIn. Writing helps me reflect and connect with others in the community.
How can the MoTaverse help me?
By inspiring new ideas, sharing experiences, and maybe even pointing me toward my next big opportunity.
How can I help expand the MoTaverse?
By contributing from my experience as a QA Manager, and conversations that make others think, laugh, or feel like “I’ve been there too!”
I’m currently between jobs but have been in software & testing for many years now (first QA role was in 2008). Ministry of Testing has been fantastic for my career so I hope to try giving back a bit… as well as continuing to learn! Quality engineering, RCAs and how we can grow are where I’m most passionate right now. I’m also going through STEC and signed up for SQEC today whilst there’s a discount on.
I’m based in Scotland but always happy to hop on a train to meet folk in the UK.
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as an accounts clerk, It support, developer and eventually found my home in Quality in 2004.
. I also play the trombone in my spare time…and I sing a little bit.
(keeping it a bit mysterious 
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