Past events
A look at where we've been.
Testing in the Age of AI
March 2026Roku
MCR.TEST's 2026 relaunch tackled AI from a tester's perspective — hands-on prompt injection challenges and a deep dive into using AI as a genuine day-to-day thinking partner.
View details →Front-End Automation Tooling
October 2025Matillion
A hands-on evening at Matillion covering the front-end automation landscape — open community discussion led by Gina Chelton, followed by a live Playwright coding challenge with prizes.
View details →Performance Testing
June 2025Matillion
An evening dedicated to a vital but often overlooked discipline — theorycrafting bottlenecks, hands-on load testing with K6, and a summer performance pub quiz to close.
View details →Security Edition
February 2025MONY Group
MCR.TEST kicked off 2025 back at Spinningfields with a security-focused evening of station-based activities, team competition, and hands-on challenges — lock picking included.
View details →Level Up: Career Skill Trees
October 2024N Brown
An RPG-themed evening at N Brown exploring what career progression really means in testing — mapping shared skill trees and setting SMART goals to take away.
View details →Red vs Blue
July 2024BrightHR
Phase 3 brought structured debate to BrightHR's offices — the community split into two camps and went head-to-head on testing's most divisive questions.
View details →AI Demystified
May 2024Matillion
Phase 2 landed at Matillion's new Salford office for an evening dedicated to making AI less mysterious — riskstorming a hypothetical AI system and building real tests with ChatGPT.
View details →The Launch Event
February 2024MONY Group
The very first MCR.TEST — an evening of open discussion, knowledge sharing, and networking at MoneySuperMarket's Spinningfields offices, powered by MRJ Recruitment.
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