Mike Smith
Head Of QA Testing at LinkedIn Learning Community
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMike Smith is a Head of QA/Testing with 20+ years of experience turning testing from a delivery bottleneck into a strategic advantage for global enterprises. He currently leads a distributed QA function at OneOcean while also teaching testing, JMeter, and AI-in-QA courses to 400,000+ learners as a LinkedIn Learning instructor. A Docker Captain and ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, Mike blends hands-on automation and performance testing (JMeter, Postman, Playwright) with DevOps and containerisation expertise—particularly Docker for Windows. He helped introduce GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted workflows at Ideagen, and focuses on practical, approachable ways testers can adopt AI today. Outside of work he shares bite-sized testing guidance on YouTube and TikTok and streams retro/horror games on Twitch, showing a knack for communicating complex tooling to broad, non‑traditional audiences.
9 years of coding experience
GSCE, GSCE at Palatine Sports CollegeGNVQ, Business and ICT, GNVQ, Business and ICT at Blackpool and the Fylde College
Github Skills (34)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
peripheralmike/Root-Android-Emulator
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
This project gives you the tools and files you need to grant root permissions to an Android Emulator using Android Studio
Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 12 pushes in 1 day
peripheralmike/peripheralmike
Mar 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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