Quality Engineering Newsletter

What Is a Principal Tester - 5 Years On

Four realisations that reshaped how I see the role and build quality in.

Nov 2 • 

Jit Gosai

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October 2025

Linky #18 - Seeing the System

Lessons from outages, metrics, and team dynamics on building environments where quality can thrive.

Oct 26 • 

Jit Gosai

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How quality is created, maintained and lost in complex software systems

What the CrowdStrike outage teaches us about how quality is created, maintained, and sometimes catastrophically lost in complex software systems.

Oct 19 • 

Jit Gosai

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Linky #17 - Learning by Doing

It’s conference season again, which means plenty of ideas, experiments, and conversations about how we build quality into our systems. This week’s picks…

Oct 12 • 

Jit Gosai

Top three talks from TestBash 2025

My personal notes from the top three talks of TestBash Brighton 2025

Oct 8 • 

Jit Gosai

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TestBash Brighton 2025: Reflections on Two Days of Quality

From leading without titles to testing AI: key takeaways from TestBash Brighton 2025

Oct 5 • 

Jit Gosai

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September 2025

Lean Agile Scotland 2025: Lessons for Quality Engineers

Practical Takeaways to Help You Tackle Complexity and Uncertainty

Sep 28 • 

Jit Gosai

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Linky #16 - Knowledge, Courage, and Uncertainty

Lessons on how we learn, grow, and respond when we don’t have all the answers.

Sep 21 • 

Jit Gosai

Mapping Feedback Across Uncertainty

Using the software feedback rings to see where your testing really lands

Sep 14 • 

Jit Gosai

Linky #15 - Beyond Root Causes and Simple Fixes

Why complexity, safety, and human context still matter in software and testing

Sep 7 • 

Jit Gosai

August 2025

Complicated, Complex, and Everything in Between

Why the difference matters for the way we think about software quality.

Aug 31 • 

Jit Gosai

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Linky #14 - Feedback, Bottlenecks, and Building Quality

Why quality emerges from iteration, insight, and working within constraints

Aug 24 • 

Jit Gosai