About me

I have been working in area of testing and quality for over 25 years. Do I enjoy it? Well, my mind does like puzzles to work out!

I started out in the tail of of the 1990’s, when Waterfall was still common and testing was judged by the weight of arch-lever file reports (only half-joking).

With my first Agile project in 2002, I found more inspiration in testing - not least from opensource world. As technical demands on testers grew in the 00’s, I grew with them.

The challenges of testing provide technical and human puzzles, which left me both technically-adept with soft skills built on the experience from working with over 100 teams

As my site demonstrates, I am a minimalist - in life, and in work I learnt early on to take a lean approach to testing, to ensure minimal time-wasting. From working with many startups, I kept on improving on this heavily risk-based approach.

From corporations trying to change at a faster pace, to startups looking for a rapid and flexible approach to testing, I have learnt that testing can be improved and have positive effect on the rest of the project, whatever the challenges.

Key skills

• Quality Engineering from Design to Production.
• Test Engineering in CI/CD pipelines.
• Performance testing to ensure apps are both secure and stable./li>
• Test Architecture/Frameworks
• Tester Coaching
• Accessibility reviews and automation