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The 21 Best Software Testing Podcasts

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The 21 Best Software Testing Podcasts

Published: Aug 4, 2025
Last updated: Apr 11, 2026

TLDR; There are a lot of Software Testing Podcasts. Use this comprehensive list of the top 21 as your starting point in 2026. A curated and maintained list of high quality and active podcasts with tips on how to get the most from them.

Podcasts Overview

There are almost too many Software Testing Podcasts out there. But, I try to keep up to date with industry trends and podcasts are a good way to do that.

I’m only counting podcasts that are released on audio and are subscribable with audio podcast software. Some of these have video as well, which I view as a bonus. I have added a section in this list for Video only podcasts, if you have an RSS reader or a podcast reader which can handle Youtube then you can subscribe to them.

I’m not including any podcast which is generated by AI. Some individuals and companies are releasing audio files generated by Google NotebookLM but I don’t consider that a good Marketing strategy, nor a good use of your listening time. I haven’t knowingly included any podcast generated obviously through AI.

Testing Podcast List

The list is sorted in alphabetical order. You can make your own decision about which are best for you.

AB Testing

AB Testing is a software testing and quality engineering podcast, with a relaxed, chat style. The show regularly features industry guests: including Selenium creator Jason Huggins, Elisabeth Hendrickson, and quality-focused engineers from companies like Microsoft. But also covers the hosts’ own thoughts and reflections on their career, job searches, and life events.

Topics covered have included the evolving role of quality in modern software development, AI-assisted testing tools, the shift from siloed QA to shared team responsibility, systems thinking in engineering leadership, agile methodology trade-offs, and the skills required as AI impacts Software Development.

Applause Ready Test Go

  • https://www.applause.com/podcasts/
  • Applause - Ready Test Go - Official podcast from Crowdtesting company Applause. The show notes have full episode descriptions and transcripts. Released as audio and video.

Ready, Test, Go is Applause’s podcast that takes an interview-driven approach to software quality - covering software testing, UX design, accessibility, AI ethics, product management, and customer experience. Each episode has an invited guest. Recent guests have included Gene Kim, Lisa Crispin, Gojko Adzic, Sandy Pentland.

Episodes often have the recurring themes of culture, empathy, and systems thinking. With quality as something that emerges from people and process, not just tools.

Beyond Quality

Beyond Quality is a discussion-led podcast that mixes quality engineering practice with research based discussion, with hosts and guests examining testing through technical, organizational, and human lenses. Recent episodes focused on AI and LLM testing (including RAG, agentic workflows, and AI-generated code risks), trust and psychological safety, testing economics and business alignment, motivation and management models, job-market strategy for quality professionals, and cultural influences on testing practices.

BrowserStack Talks

BrowserStack Talks is an interview-driven podcast from BrowserStack that focuses on the topics of quality engineering and automating today. Guests have included Simon Stewart (WebDriver/Selenium co-creator), Maaret Pyhäjärvi, and Keith Klain. Conversations are structured rather than completely casual. Each episode built around a specific theme associated with the guest: API testing, coaching and communication, security in QA, the future of manual testing, etc.

MOT This Week in Testing

MOT This Week in Testing is the official podcast of the Ministry of Testing, hosted by Simon (and a rotating lineup of community voices). A group chat style that feels more like catching up with people over lunch than a formal interview show. It covers platform and community updates with conversations about participants work experiences. The tone is often playful and doesn’t take itself too seriously, with episode titles like “Rainbow Vomits and AI Guardrails” and “The Curse of the Live Demo and Other Testing Superstitions”.

Optimal Hype

Optimal Hype (previously branded as the QA Hype Show) is a community-driven podcast hosted by Gary Shannon, aimed at quality engineering practitioners, particularly with career transitions, job market pressures. The show has guests from within the UK testing community and uses a conversational interview style.

Quality Remarks

  • https://qualityremarks.com/
  • Quality Remarks is the podcast from Keith Klain. Each episode has a different guest. Recorded as audio and video.

Quality Remarks is an interview based software testing podcast with an emphasis on context-driven testing, human judgment, and the social side of quality. Episodes have mixed individual interviews, panel conversations, and community reflections with no tool hype. The show has explored testing strategy, automation limits, risk-focused thinking, communication, ethics in software and AI, leadership, mentoring, and career development. Emphasizing people over process and real-world decision-making over checkbox compliance.

Quality Talks

  • https://qualitytalks.co.uk/podcast
  • Quality Talks is Stu Day and Chris Henderson and different guest each episode. Released as audio and video. The official Show notes have summary, key points and time stamped chapters.

Quality Talks is a conversational quality engineering podcast that mixes longer guest interviews with shorter individual episodes. Practical delivery advice with broader leadership and systems-thinking discussions. Recent episodes focused on quality as a whole-system concern rather than a test phase, and covered topics such as burnout signals and prevention, self-care in leadership, collaboration over bonus-driven individualism, psychological safety, communication patterns, conference learning, AI in quality work, and reducing friction by improving flow instead of adding gates. The tone is reflective and action-oriented, with recurring themes of sustainable ways of working, continuous improvement, and integrating quality across people, process, culture, and technology.

Richard Seidl Software Testing

Richard Seidl’s Software Testing is a German-language podcast. The style is professional and interview-led, with a mix of practitioner deep-dives and community event spotlights. The tone is knowledgeable and easy going, aimed at German-speaking Testing professionals to help expand the German language test community.

Software Testing Unleashed

Software Testing Unleashed is an English speaking interview-led quality engineering podcast.Recent episodes covered Playwright and Cypress strategy, exploratory testing methods, automation education, non-violent communication, agile quality beyond frameworks, AI’s changing role in testing, shared quality ownership, and the human side of software work such as blame-free learning, resistance to change, burnout, and trust.

Tech and Test

Tech and Test is an interview-driven technology and software quality podcast that covers engineering practice with career and leadership conversations. Recent episode topics were exploratory and context driven testing, AI in software development and testing, chaos engineering and resilience, practical test strategy, UX-testing collaboration, startup product design, and big-tech interview preparation. Conversational and pragmatic, with real-world technical discussion and broader themes like critical thinking.

Test Guild

  • https://testguild.com/
  • Test Guild - hosted by Joe Colantonio has main topic focus on Testing or Automating. Each episode has a different guest. Show notes have comprehensive links and usually a full transcript. Released as audio and video.

TestGuild is a high-frequency, interview-driven software testing and quality engineering podcast focused on practical automation strategy and vendor tooling. Its most recent episodes covered AI-native testing workflows, including non-deterministic system validation, production-log-driven regression generation, mobile automation reliability, performance testing with AI and observability, and large-scale quality engineering transformation across distributed teams.

Test Guild Devops Toolchain Podcast

  • https://testguild.com/podcasts/performance/
  • Test Guild Devops Toolchain Podcast - hosted by Joe Colantonio has a Dev Ops and Cloud focus. Each episode has a different guest. Show notes have comprehensive links and usually a full transcript. Released as audio and video.

Test Guild DevOps Toolchain Podcast is Joe Colantonio’s DevOps and platform engineering show focused on practical implementation of modern delivery, reliability, and security practices. Recent episodes concentrate on AI in DevOps workflows, developer-first application security (DAST), DevSecOps strategy, contract testing in agentic AI environments, Kubernetes predictive autoscaling, cloud-native scaling architecture, and the overlap between testing and DevOps career paths. With conversations based on real engineering tradeoffs, adoption pitfalls, and approaches for building scalable, secure, and resilient software systems.

Test Guild News Show

  • https://testguild.com/podcasts/news/
  • Test Guild News Show hosted by Joe Colantonio has a round up of Software Testing Tool news and updates. Released as audio and video. Show notes have links to source of each news update.

Test Guild News Show is a sort weekly testing-and-automation news roundup with a headline-driven format that mixes commentary, tool updates, and links. The show is concise and fast moving, built around timely updates with show notes having references for immediate follow-up.

Test Guild ZapTalk Podcast

Test Guild ZapTalk Podcast is a sponsored AI-focused, discussion-style show centered on how automation changes software testing, quality leadership, and consulting. Recent episodes concentrated on practical AI adoption in testing organizations, including why many AI pilots fail, how to choose high-ROI use cases, the shift from manual-heavy consulting to automation-assisted delivery, AI agents in next-gen QA workflows, and AI-driven approaches to performance testing.

The BugBash Podcast

The BugBash Podcast is a technical software engineering show focused on reliability, testing theory, and real-world systems design, with conversations that bridge research ideas and real-world experience. Recent episodes covered property-based testing, fuzzing and UI reliability, deterministic simulation, distributed systems correctness, debugging internals, cloud-native data architecture, and the limits of AI-generated code and agentic workflows. The tone is thorough and engineering-heavy, with recurring theme of failure modes, testability, observability, and practical techniques for building robust production systems.

The Engineering Quality Podcast

The Engineering Quality Podcast is a conversation-led software quality show focused on testing, engineering culture, and leadership practice. Recent episodes centered on holistic testing, agile-quality alignment, quality coaching, productivity and focus in technical teams, and the idea that quality outcomes are primarily shaped by communication, collaboration, and organizational culture rather than testing alone.

The EvilTester Show

  • https://www.eviltester.com/show/
  • The Evil Tester Show - hosted by Alan Richardson. Occasional guest episodes. Show notes have comprehensive descriptions and resource links. Released as audio and video.

The Evil Tester Show is a solo-host, opinionated software testing podcast that blends practical craft advice with career strategy and reflective commentary on how testing is evolving. Occasional guest episodes help provide a different slant when the show needs a deep dive into a topic on which the host is not an expert. Recent episodes covered Agentic AI in testing and development, automation design and migration, test strategy, context-driven testing, hiring and portfolio building, respect and role dynamics in teams, and the changing tester skillset in AI-influenced workflows. The show is direct and hands-on, with episode-level deep dives that turn day-to-day testing problems into actionable tactics and clearer mental models.

The Testing Peers

  • https://testingpeers.com/
  • The Testing Peers - panel discussions about testing. Usually Chris Armstrong, Simon Prior, Russell Craxford and David Maynard, with occasional special guests. Show notes on the website have an episode description and resource links.

Testing Peers is a roundtable group-style software testing podcast built around peer discussion, where multiple hosts explore one topic at a time through practical experience, debate, and reflection. Recent episodes focused on consulting models, quality influence beyond testing roles, team change in difficult environments, flow and systems friction, learning investment and training strategy, high-performing team dynamics, and career entry into quality engineering. The tone is conversational and chatty, some light banter with deeper, values-driven discussion about how testing and quality work in real organizations.

The Testing Show

  • https://www.qualitestgroup.com/insights/podcasts/
  • The Testing Show - Qualitest panel discussions with guests. Main hosts Matthew Heusser and Michael Larsen. Official show notes have a short summary but the web page for each episode has a transcript.

The Testing Show is a panel-and-guest discussion podcast focused on practical software quality topics across enterprise engineering environments. Recent episodes covered AI assurance in healthcare, generative AI in testing workflows, synthetic test data for privacy-safe validation, continuous delivery effectiveness, SAP and utility-scale transformation testing, test coaching, and organizational inclusion themes in testing leadership.

The Vernon Richard Show

  • https://thevernonrichardshow.com/
  • The Vernon Richard Show - hosted by Vernon Richards and Richard Bradshaw. Usually a Testing themed discussion between Vernon and Richard. Official show notes have summary description, timestamped chapter headings, resource links. Show notes on the website sometimes have a full transcript. Released as audio and video.

The Vernon Richard Show is a conversation between Vernon Richards and Richard Bradshaw. Opinion-rich quality engineering podcast that blends personal thoughts and experience with deep dive discussions into testing practice. Recent episodes focused on AI-assisted quality work, agentic tooling, automation principles in the AI era, measuring quality beyond traditional labels, and the evolving boundaries between QA, QE, and testing roles. The style is informal and chatty but thoughtful, mixing practical examples, industry critique, and strategy-level discussion.

On Hiatus

The following podcasts are ’taking a break’. I often subscribe to podcasts like this because they can come back and you won’t want to miss an episode if they do.

Testing Video Podcast List

The following podcasts would work perfectly well as video and audio but are only released on Video so you have to visit their home page or subscribe to the Youtube channel.

The Value of Software Testing with Randy Rice

Into the Motaverse

Tips for Using the Podcasts

Don’t just listen. Study. These tips will help you get the most from the podcast episodes.

Studying Strategies

I might be listening to podcasts while traveling or walking so they might not always get my full attention.

I usually check the show notes and follow relevant links.

I’ve added notes about which podcasts have transcripts, and which have youtube videos as well. Often I’ll visit the official episode page on the podcast website and read the transcript to gain additional information.

If there is no official transcript I might use the transcript generated by YouTube to quickly scan the content. To see the transcript expand the description on YouTube and right at the bottom is a link to view the transcript/subtitles for the video.

Tools like NotebookLM can also help by summarizing content of YouTube videos and audio files.

Subscription Tools

I use Podcast Addict (on Android) to listen to podcasts. Most of these will also be available through Spotify.

I’ve linked to the main podcast web page. From which you should be able to find the subscription details.

If you struggle then I’ve found that a combination of two search engines helps me.

If the podcast home page lists the Apple Podcast URL then I use the following sites to find the main RSS feed:

Youtube Podcasts

Every YouTube channel or playlist has an auto generated RSS Feed.

You can find this using get-rss.com or getrssfeed.com.

The basic format is:

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<playlistid>

The <playlistid> is shown in the URL for the podcast.

Finding Podcasts

Finding podcasts can be very tricky because Podcast SEO is new and the sites you’ll search on often surface up odd podcasts.

To search for podcasts by category and general search term I’ll use, and I’ve listed them in order of preference:

If you know the name of the podcast then you can use the following sites. I wouldn’t use these to find podcasts by category:

There are sites that subscribe for you… and as a bonus summarise the content.

I like BoomStash.com as a source of summary information for podcasts.

Hints for Searching per Site

  • Most podcasts are not optimized for SEO so use multiple search terms to identify podcasts.
  • Do not assume that the list from one search or site is complete.

If you can’t find the RSS feed for a show then try searching for the show directly using or Apple Podcasts.

Podchaser.com

  • allows you to filter by ‘Active Status’ but this doesn’t really match any notion of ‘active’ that I’d use. Is a podcast that hasn’t released an episode for 5 years actually active?

Google

  • Search for “software testing podcast”
  • prefix with “best” i.e. “best software testing podcast” this shows a different view

Spotify

  • Keep scrolling
  • If you see a podcast that interests you then right click and “Open in Desktop App” otherwise you’ll lose your place in the list
  • You will see duplicates in the list, don’t let that distract you
  • RSS feeds on spotify podcasts are not enabled by default so you may have to search the podcast in apple podcasts or one of the other sites to find the RSS feed.

Apple Podcasts

Not my favourite Podcast Search Engine but it is the default for many people.

  • Apple Podcasts shows a subset of podcasts on the front page.
  • When you scroll through the list of podcasts you still will not see all the podcasts that could have been matched.
  • Use multiple search terms for Apple Podcasts e.g. “Software Testing”, “Software QA” “Performance Testing”
  • Apple Podcasts will show dormant podcasts that have not been updated in some time, recency does not seem to factor into the search results.
  • you will get different results depending on the region you use e.g. gb Software Testing vs us Software Testing

ListenNotes.com

  • probably the best of all the podcast search engines but you need to be logged into get RSS feeds and home page information
  • just remember to choose ‘podcasts’ on the search dialog
  • you need to be a member to get more than 3 or 4 pages of podcast listings

Podcasts Online

  • looks like it has comprehensive search results but it often misses many shows even when indexed
  • best used when you know the podcast show name
  • updated 2026/04/11 to relax my rules on video podcasts and added two video podcasts

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