Ben Dowen
Senior Quality Engineer
He/Him
I am Open to Speak, Teach, Write, Work
I explore the world of software development and testing. Join me as I continue my adventures, discovering the wonders of quality.
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Feeling adrift in your QA or testing career?
Join Ben Dowen at #TestBash Brighton 2025 for
“Navigating a Career in Quality Engineering”
Learn how to:
✔️ Identify your manager’s quality...
Generative AI apps and integrations are growing fast and so are the injection attacks. This time it's through harmless-looking plain text, aka prompts.
While working at Ada Health, I established exploratory testing in our Medical Knowledge teams, coaching them over a number of months using collaborative working sessions.
Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
A candid, community-powered conversation for software testers and quality professionals on job hunting, writing impactful CVs, and growing careers through visibility and support.
Learning by watching other testers do their thing helps visualise concepts and gain insight into how the activities of testing are executed.
Explore whether testers should automate tasks over tests. Join Ministry of Testing as they discuss automation trends, career growth, and innovation.
Can you find Bug, Cosmo the Space Duck and Space Seagull?
23/04/25: Ben Dowen and Brittany Stewart explored during a Software Testing Live session. They had the best fun, and so did the audience.
Watching professionals explore is a powerful technique ...
This Week in Testing #86: Testing Skills, Career Growth & Community Wins
Vibe coding is where you use an LLM or, like, AI based tool to write the code for you.But rather than writing any code for yourself, you completely give over. And, basically, what you do is you just keep asking more and more times for the LLM. So if it doesn't work the way you want, you don't read the code.You just keep talking about talking back to the LLM.And, you just you just keep, like, if there's an error, you just feed it straight back in. No context, just give it the error.
Debrief the week in testing