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Why I believe that manual testing is a great job

I’ve had a fairly varied career and in 2019 I took the unusual step of going from a developer to a manual tester. I’m glad that I made this choice and this post explores why.

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2021 – A year in review

I believe this is a fairly common thing to do and hopefully useful for myself. Lets have a look back at the bizarre year that was 2021. Key events: Officially became an employee of Motorola Solutions, following a takeover last year. Moved to a new office, which I visited a handful of times. Started a […]

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Threat modelling: Don’t forget your test engineer

I am a test engineer at my current work. After watching a number of talks at Ministry of Testing I also signed up for a secondary role; Cyber Champion. Through this role I’ve been learning about many aspects of cyber security and then running brown bags for our office to help people learn more about […]

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“Just run what was done before”

My biggest challenge when switching back to test Before I start, a bit of background. I started at my current company as a Software Test Engineer. I didn’t really enjoy the very rigid processes that we had in place and felt it didn’t make the most of my creative ability to find bugs. I ended […]