Into The MoTaverse

Ministry of Testing
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Into the MoTaverse is a podcast by Ministry of Testing, hosted by Rosie Sherry, exploring the people, insights, and systems shaping quality in modern software teams. Through thoughtful conversations and reflections, the podcast dives into quality engineering, software testing, leadership, technology trends and career growth. Whether you’re early in your career or shaping quality at scale, Into the MoTaverse is a space to think deeply about what quality really means and how it evolves.

  1. From Java Dev to DevRel: What Does a Twenty-Five-Year Career Actually Teach You? - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 24

    -15 ч ·  Видео

    From Java Dev to DevRel: What Does a Twenty-Five-Year Career Actually Teach You? - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 24

    Adriana Vilela is a Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace and a core contributor to OpenTelemetry, the open source standard for instrumenting applications that has become one of the highest-velocity projects in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. In this episode, Adriana and Rosie trace the arc of long careers in tech, from Java development in the early 2000s to the current age of AI-assisted coding, and reflect on what has actually changed and what hasn't. They dig into what observability means for testers (more than most people think), the idea of telemetry as a quality gate, and why OpenTelemetry's vendor-neutral community model is a rare success story worth studying. The conversation also navigates into AI slop, the flood of low-effort AI-generated pull requests threatening open source communities, and what project maintainers, community builders, and organisations can actually do about it. If you work in quality, DevOps, or community, this one connects threads you probably haven't seen joined up before.

    53 мин.
  2. When quality becomes infrastructure - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 23

    24 июн. ·  Видео

    When quality becomes infrastructure - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 23

    Abby Bangser is a principal founding engineer at Syntasso, a CNCF ambassador, and a Team Topologies advocate. She started her career in QA and has spent two decades working in internal tooling, DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering. Always with quality at the centre. In this episode, Rosie and Abby explore platform engineering through a quality lens. They cover what it actually means to treat a platform as software, why Richard Seroter's "shift down" framing matters more than shift left, and how quality engineers can engage with platform teams. As users, contributors, and embedded practitioners. Abby introduces the "thinnest viable platform" concept from Gregor Hophe, explains why ephemeral test environments are a natural platform engineering win, and makes the case that AI-era software development plays directly to quality engineers' strengths. They also dig into community, career confidence, and why SRE is, in Abby's words, "just quality at the systems level." Follow Abby Bangser and Rosie Sherry in the MoTaverse.

    50 мин.
  3. What you feed AI matters more than how you ask - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 22

    17 июн. ·  Видео

    What you feed AI matters more than how you ask - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 22

    Adam Davis is a software engineering manager who spends his spare hours building pixelmesh. It’s a system that turns a room full of phones into a single coordinated light display, inspired by the glowing wristbands at Coldplay concerts. In this episode he walks through the engineering, the testing, and the hard-won lessons from demoing it live at the Manchester MoTaverse chapter meetup. The conversation moves quickly from the technical (Morse-code blink detection, region-of-interest camera clipping, eighty-metre range tests from a cul-de-sac at midnight) to the bigger idea: that the prompt engineering craze has distracted people from what actually matters in AI-assisted work. When AI cannot physically see your problem, no amount of clever prompting helps. What helps is observability — structured telemetry, pixel data, debug runs, video replay. Adam explains how treating observability as a day-one practice changed his project, cut costs dramatically, and gave him the data to make AI a genuine debug partner rather than a code generator.

    50 мин.
  4. Be what you are: Preeti Gupta on experience, rejection, and coming out stronger - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 21

    10 июн. ·  Видео

    Be what you are: Preeti Gupta on experience, rejection, and coming out stronger - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 21

    There's a version of this story where Preeti Gupta questions her future in quality. Where the months of silence from employers, the CVs filtered by bots, or the well-meaning advice to retrain or change direction. That's not this story. Preeti has seventeen years in quality engineering. But there’s more than that, she's someone who has genuinely put in the work. She's shown up at chapter events. She's travelled to be in the room. There are selfies (with me) to prove it. And if you've spent any time in the MoTaverse, you'll have probably seen her there. It’s been a pleasure to get to know her over the past 18 months. This episode is for anyone who's wondered whether the effort of finding their next quality role is worth it. For anyone who's shown up, invested, and still found themselves overlooked. It is worth it. Preeti's journey is proof. Follow Preeti Gupta and Rosie Sherry in the MoTaverse.

    50 мин.
  5. Coding Velocity Is Not Delivery Velocity. We Explore Why - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 20

    3 июн. ·  Видео

    Coding Velocity Is Not Delivery Velocity. We Explore Why - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 20

    Coding has accelerated. Everything else hasn't. In this episode, Rosie talks with Dan Faulkner, CEO of SmartBear, about what happens when one part of the software development lifecycle runs ahead and leaves the rest behind. It's a conversation that will resonate with anyone in quality, security, design, or DevOps who's felt the pressure of more software arriving faster, with the same size team and the same tools to handle it. They get into why intent validation, checking whether agentic code actually built what you asked for, is becoming one of the most important new steps in the SDLC, and why quality professionals are better placed than most to own it. Dan also makes the case for frameworks over fixed opinions, experimental thinking over endless debate, and building bridges across disciplines rather than defending territory. If you've been trying to articulate why quality still matters in an AI-accelerated world, this episode gives you some language to do it with.

    1 ч. 4 мин.
  6. Community Is the AI for Humans: Rahul Parwal on Navigating the AI Noise - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 19

    27 мая ·  Видео

    Community Is the AI for Humans: Rahul Parwal on Navigating the AI Noise - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 19

    Rahul Parwal is a MoTaverse Ambassador, MoTaCon speaker, and Masterclass contributor, course creator, and so much more! In this episode he joins Rosie to talk through what it actually looks like to level up with AI as a quality professional. They cover where to start (primary sources, not social media hype), how to build consistency through community, and why the thirty days of AI and testing sprint was Rahul's own entry point into serious AI experimentation. The conversation gets practical fast: Rahul introduces a useful two-axis framework: algorithmic vs. creative work, siloed vs. social work, to help people decide where AI genuinely adds value and where it burns tokens for little return. They also tackle the cost of AI head-on, using the Uber example of exhausting an annual AI budget by April, and discuss what sustainable AI practices might look like. Claude's artifacts and co-work mode, MCP, the MoT glossary project, and the consolidation of AI tooling all get a mention.

    49 мин.
  7. Solve Problems That Matter - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 18

    20 мая ·  Видео

    Solve Problems That Matter - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 18

    Rosie Sherry is joined by Amy Phillips, a senior engineering manager with a career spanning test consultancy, startup life, and leading infrastructure and product teams. Amy reflects on what's stayed constant across fifteen years of change (it’s the people!) and what's shifted dramatically. They dig into the tension between process and creativity, why removing things matters as much as building them, and how AI is reshaping both individual contributor roles and management itself. Amy shares practical thinking on guardrails, platform mindset, and how to make it easy for people to do the right thing. Follow Amy and Rosie in the MoTaverse.

    56 мин.
  8. Put up your bat signal: Tristan Lombard on solopreneurship, community, and career reinvention - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 17

    13 мая ·  Видео

    Put up your bat signal: Tristan Lombard on solopreneurship, community, and career reinvention - Into the MoTaverse - Episode 17

    Tristan Lombard, marketer, community builder, ghost author, and self-described Stage Mom, joins Rosie Sherry to talk about one of the most pressing questions in tech right now: what do you do when the traditional career path stops working for you? Drawing on three years of solopreneurship and a decade of community-building before that, Tristan makes a compelling, data-backed, and deeply human case for going it alone, particularly for quality engineers whose roles are shifting under the pressure of AI and ongoing layoffs. This episode is less about theory and more about the practical stuff: how to identify what you're actually known for, how to build a brand of value (not a personal brand) on LinkedIn, how to approach DMs without being predatory, how to price your work, and how to protect your energy when clients push past the boundaries of your SOW. Tristan brings the warmth, the receipts, and the occasional sharp word for life coaches who slide into DMs uninvited. Follow Tristan and Rosie in the MoTaverse.

    54 мин.
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Into the MoTaverse is a podcast by Ministry of Testing, hosted by Rosie Sherry, exploring the people, insights, and systems shaping quality in modern software teams. Through thoughtful conversations and reflections, the podcast dives into quality engineering, software testing, leadership, technology trends and career growth. Whether you’re early in your career or shaping quality at scale, Into the MoTaverse is a space to think deeply about what quality really means and how it evolves.

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