My Portfolio

People who create things for a living often have a portfolio of things to show. In my experience, it’s difficult for a tester who isn’t automating apps, or in management to showcase their wares. This page is my attempt at highlighting what I’m working on outside of my 9 to 5 job.

Meetups

Co-founder of the 9 out of 10 testers meetup - LINK This is a monthly meetup where five test leaders meet to rant about a topic. We normally stream via YouTube, but are also looking for the opportunity to appear in-person at a conference or event.
Co-organiser of the London Tester Gathering
Co-organiser of Secrets of the Startups

Podcasts

Testing Peers - The peers have been kind enough to invite me to appear on multiple episodes
- Episode 17 RiskStorming Santa’s 2020
- Episode 45 Christmas Dinner MVP
- Episode 58 #MakeATester Update
TestSphere Roulette Ep1 - LINK
TestBash MoT Podcast - LINK Podcast recorded as part of TestBash 2020. Talking about leadership, coaching, and mentoring
Tester’s Island Discs Ep10 - LINK

#LeadershipThoughts on Twitter and LinkedIn

Personal project to share my thoughts on leadership with the community. I semi-regularly post a thought about leadership on Twitter and LinkedIn under the hashtag #LeadershipThoughts. First and foremost this is to challenge myself to think about my leadership journey. Secondly, it is to provoke conversations to help others on their leadership journey, particularly those starting out.
Here is the list of tweets - #LeadershipThoughts

Conference talks & workshops

EuroSTAR Testing Voices (2021) - Different Teams, Different Perspectives Panel exploring how different testers work in different environments.
TestBash Home (2020) - Leadership Panel
Nordic Testing Days (2019) - Joint workshop with Nicola Sedgwick. Topic: How do you mentor skills that you just “do”
TestBash Brighton (2017) - Joint workshop with Nicola Sedgwick. Topic: Mentoring Mastery - Passing on Skill you “Just Do”. Link to Programme

TestBash 99 Second Talks

Please note: you will need at minimum a free membership to the Ministry of Testing to view these. I

TestBash Home (2020) - Link unavailable
TestBash Brighton (2017) @ 21:20 - “I don’t know, and I’m OK with that. BE EXCELLENT TO EACH OTHER”
TestBash Brighton (2016) @ 7:22 - “Comment on blogs. JUST DO IT”

Meetup Talks

Cambridge Tester Gathering, February 6th 2020 - Leadership, A parent’s handbook https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Cambridge/events/267806266/
Peterborough Tester Gathering, November 18th 2018 - To talk transformation, you need to talk testing https://www.meetup.com/Ministry-of-Testing-Peterborough/events/255430401/

Github repos

Caesar Cipher variations in Python with TkInter - https://github.com/SheyMouse/caesar-cipher