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Want to improve quality? Start with trust.

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Software Testing and Quality Engineering Salary Database Submit your salary anonymously | Software Testing and Quality Engineering Salary Research

Software Testing and Quality Engineering Salary Database

We’re collecting live and anonymous salary data to help make sense of the industry landscape of salaries for software testing and quality engineer professionals.

Software Quality Engineering Certificate (SQEC) Boost your career in quality engineering with the MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate.

Learn in the MoTaverse: Software Quality Engineering Certificate (SQEC)

It's coming!

Only available in the MoTaverse.

Big, small, lots, few, none

Leadership isn’t a title. It’s a practice.

You lead the moment you help someone see quality differently.

Lessons learned in test-driven development: Software tester edition Identify when TDD, traditional, or hybrid testing best fits your environment to deliver high-quality software

Lessons learned in test-driven development: Software tester edition

Identify when TDD, traditional, or hybrid testing best fits your environment to deliver high-quality software

Bug congrats to Gary Hawkes for starting Bugs and Hugs, his new blog!

Learn more about it on the homepage of the MoTaverse :)

Nothing is what it seems.

Screenshot of the MoTaverse job board.

A guide to the MoTaverse job board.

We recently updated our job board and it's wonderful to see so many jobs now listed.

This is how it works:

✅ it's super easy for anyone to add a job
✅ earn a community star
✅ two week listings
✅ it's free
✅ community members share what they spot

On being audacious and standing up to enshittification. Enough is enough! 😁

A Leading With Quality conversation with Rosie Sherry and Susanne Abdelrahman.

Explore the series: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/lwq

Quality is a conversation.

If you’re not invited, start one.

You first.

Both! 🤩

Great testers don’t just find bugs.

They connect dots, spot patterns, and change the system.

Tap, tap, taaapty, tap tap.

All about application cookies: Software tester edition Discover how cookies affect privacy and UX to be able to test and secure applications effectively.

All about application cookies: Software tester edition

Discover how cookies affect privacy and UX to be able to test and secure applications effectively.

Team up with the devs.

Coaching > policing.

Testers aren’t the gatekeepers. We’re the guides.

If you want to influence quality, you don’t need permission.

You need persistence, patience, and a few well-placed questions.

How to get unstuck: A guide for testers or anyone else who feels stumped Learn about some of the reasons we get stuck and some top tips for getting unstuck

How to get unstuck: A guide for testers or anyone else who feels stumped

Learn about some of the reasons we get stuck and some top tips for getting unstuck

Navigate randomly.

Where is testing and quality engineering heading? There's positivity in the air and Callum Akehurst-Ryan shares the perspective of how it's moved on to being more blended, a move away from specialist to generalist.

Explore the full Leading With Quality series: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/lwq

Software Testing and Quality Engineering Salary Database Submit your salary anonymously | Software Testing and Quality Engineering Salary Research

Software Testing and Quality Engineering Salary Database

We’re collecting live and anonymous salary data to help make sense of the industry landscape of salaries for software testing and quality engineer professionals.

What if I do this!?

Quality is everyone’s job. But not everyone knows how.

That’s where quality engineering leadership comes in.

Unicorn magic in software teams 🦄

With Lisa Crispin and Rosie Sherry on Ministry of Testing's Leading with Quality series.

Explore our series over at ministryoftesting.com/lwq

Four reasons to stop testing: Finding the right balance in software quality Decide when to stop testing by weighing up the costs, benefits, risks, and impact on quality.

Four reasons to stop testing: Finding the right balance in software quality

Decide when to stop testing by weighing up the costs, benefits, risks, and impact on quality.

Manipulate time.

What does AI mean for quality engineering?

With Lisa Crispin and Rosie Sherry on Ministry of Testing's Leading with Quality series.

Explore our series over at ministryoftesting.com/lwq