Honoring #IconsOfQuality: Ash Winter

BrowserStack profiles Ash Winter, Senior Quality Engineer at the John Lewis Partnership, as a software-testing leader, coach, co-author of A Team Guide to Software Testability, and co-organiser of the Leeds Testing Atelier. Winter emphasizes that testing should remain a collaborative activity grounded in exploratory work, shared design discussions, and broad technical knowledge, while viewing AI and large language models as tools that can enhance rather than replace testers’ judgment. He advocates improving system testability so more team members can contribute, using coding assistants to rapidly prototype test environments and tooling, and applying AI specifically to surface information from logs, databases, queues, and system metrics. For new testers, he recommends learning API exploration, mocking, Git, and architecture review, while also consulting domain experts and avoiding isolated testing. He follows developments through testing communities and technology publications, and describes running as an important hobby that supports his wellbeing and time outdoors.

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