Weāre back.
New year. A soft relaunch. New organisers behind the scenes alongside the familiar MCR.Test faces.
Everyone is talking about AI.
Weāre coming at it from the testerās perspective.
Because AI isnāt just another feature. Itās changing how products behave, how systems respond and how risk shows up. That means the practice of QA has to evolve with it.
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Thursday 12th March 2026
ā° 5:30PM till late
šŗļø ROKU Offices, No.1 Circle Square, Oxford Rd, Manchester, M1 7ED
As usual with MCR.TEST evenings, this wonāt be a slide-heavy evening.
Weāre building the session around an interactive challenge that explores how AI-driven systems behave under pressure. How guardrails hold up.
How prompts can be pushed. Where vulnerabilities appear. And what that means for testers in real-world environments.
Expect hands-on thinking, a little competition and practical insight into how our craft adapts in an AI-shaped landscape.
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Part 1
š Breaking the Bot: Prompt Injection in Action
Weāre kicking off the evening with some fun.
An interactive challenge focused on prompt injection vulnerabilities in AI systems.
This isnāt theory. Itās experimentation.
Youāll attempt to bypass safety guardrails and extract information using different prompt engineering techniques.
Small changes in wording.
Hidden instructions.
Context shifts.
Weāll explore how surprisingly fragile AI systems can be under pressure ā and what that means for us as testers, because understanding how AI breaksā¦ is the first step to testing it properly.
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We will then break for some FOOD and a chance to chat ššššš
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Part 2
š From Testing AIā¦ to Powering Up With It
In the second half of the evening, we flip the script.
We move from testing AI to using AI.
Itās easy to fall into the trap of thinking AI is only a case generator ā ācreate me this test caseā and move on. But that barely scratches the surface.
AI isnāt just a content machine. Itās a thinking partner. A pattern spotter. A scale amplifier. A way to surface risks we might not immediately see.
This part of the session is about exploring that potential.
Weāll experiment with how AI can genuinely support our day-to-day work as testers ā helping us think wider, dig deeper, and move faster without losing critical thinking.
Expect live exploration, shared discoveries, and probably a few āwhy havenāt I been using it like this?ā moments.
Because the real opportunity isnāt just testing AI systems.
Itās redefining how we work alongside them.
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A quick note on attendance
MCR.Test is community-driven and free to attend. If you sign up, please make every effort to join us or update your RSVP if plans change. Your support ensures we can continue running these events throughout the year.
