Thank you software testing.
Published on March 3, 2025
I have been a software testing professional since 1998 and am now changing my employment type on LinkedIn to “Mostly retired”. I saw that Dot Graham had set her employment type to “Mostly retired”, and it feels appropriate for me, too. I have retired, mostly.
Software testing has been my second career. It has been a good career. I have met great people, learned a great deal and had fun. I would like to thank so many people:
- Middlesex University for enabling me to make a career change and work in IT.
- Kalido, who gave me a start and gave me responsibility.
- ActiveStandards where I learned so much, we had success and so much fun. Thank you, Simon Lande and the management team.
- CrownPeak, who made me the Global Test Lead.
- Geckoboard for improving my test automation skills. Thank you to Paul Joyce for the way you led the company through COVID-19.
- Melissa Fisher, for encouraging me to write a blog and for project managing the eBook ‘Testing Stories’.
- Nicola Lindgren, for the idea for the eBook “How Can I Test This?” and for making it happen.
- BCS SIGiST, with whom I enjoy organising events and conferences to share knowledge of testing.
- The Profound Book Club, from whom I have learned a great deal. Thank you, John Willis, for starting and Rob Park for organising the Profound Book Club.
- The Testing Community, who have given me support, ran conferences at which I have spoken, listened and learned and from whom I have learned so much. Thank you to the Ministry of Testing, SkillsMatters, Indie Testing Community, Tester Hangout, BrowserStack, LambdaTest, Unicom, Geekle, QA Tech Talks, QA Evolution and others.
- The British Computer Society for its work “making IT good for society”.
- Everyone who has shared my testing and quality blog.
- Anyone I have forgotten to name, sorry and thank you.
I am still Vice-Chair and Programme Secretary of the BCS Specialist Interest Group in Software Testing and am helping to organise the 2025 SIGiST Conference. I hope to see you at the conference!