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Past events

A look at where we've been.

Testing in the Age of AI

March 2026

Roku

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.

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Front-End Automation Tooling

October 2025

Matillion

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.

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Performance Testing

June 2025

Matillion

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.

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Security Edition

February 2025

MONY 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.

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Level Up: Career Skill Trees

October 2024

N 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.

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Red vs Blue

July 2024

BrightHR

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.

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AI Demystified

May 2024

Matillion

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.

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The Launch Event

February 2024

MONY 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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