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Simon Tomes
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Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified.
January 2026
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One of my goals for the near future
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My 2026 Goals: Coming back stronger
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Introductions 2026
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Take MoTe of your goals. It’s very MoTivating.
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Be More Empathetic
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Physical Disabilities in the Workplace: Find a More Sustainable and Supportive Way to Keep Amazing People
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Take MoTe of your goals. It’s very MoTivating.
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How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
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Staying sane in a post-modern world, from Anne-Marie Charrett
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Leading Through Discomfort
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How I Built an Agentic SDLC Demo with Cursor, MCP Servers, Playwright, GitHub, and Vercel in Under an Hour.
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Physical Disabilities in the Workplace: Find a More Sustainable and Supportive Way to Keep Amazing People
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Mohammad Arif talks for 99 seconds at MoT London
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99 seconds with Dalbir Sehmbi who recommends 8 minutes for men's health
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99 seconds with Francis Kamara at MoT London
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Spike Testing: A Physical Embodiment
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Centralised Quality Engineering teams
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Centralised Quality Engineering teams
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What does accountability mean to you?
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UX Speed Calculator
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7 Steps of a Web Performance Journey
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Pipeline - The Game that Delivers!
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Couldn't get enough of this 99 glitch
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Couldn't get enough of this 99 glitch
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Same optimism. Different tools.
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The only AI I will ever trust
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In 2025 My MoT dashboard has more stars than my night sky ⭐😄
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When Testers are too much attached to testing
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New year. New introduction. New thinking. Same me.
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What does accountability mean to you?
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Are we ready to go live?
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Meeting Simon at the MoT London Meetup
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Simon and Rosie, selfie time!
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The MoT London energy vibes are out of this world!
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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2026 New Year’s Resolution: Reading in Public
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My 2026 goals
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CRAP Metric Is a Thing And It Tells You About Risk in Your Code
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99-second talk: We know - We do - We care - We’ll be back!
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19.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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11.9.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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What is the AI–quality–human loop? - Ep 118
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Looking Ahead to 2026 : Satya Nadella
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Apply to be a MoT Ambassador for 2026
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700+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
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Risk matters more than ever
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700+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
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Risk matters more than ever
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My year in stars 🌟
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Met Rahul at test bash
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Elevate your career: Become a testing generalist
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Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts
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What Is Exploratory Testing? PQIP: Four Simple Words To Level Up Your Testing Efforts
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Beautiful Evening With Testing Legends
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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700+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
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Cosmic Conversation: What comes next when burnout changes your path?
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Do software testing professionals understand what is meant by systems thinking?
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Gary Hawkes: All roads lead to quality
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ReTestBash UK 2022: Live Q&A with Clare Norman
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Quality Coaching: Level 1
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Risk matters more than ever
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Celebrating going from 999 to 1,000 community stars
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Megan Ozanne - Slow down to speed up
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Back to the basics: Rethinking how we use AI in testing
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Back to the basics: Rethinking how we use AI in testing
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Test artefacts can have a 'lethal dose'
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Test artefacts can have a 'lethal dose'
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700+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
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Fill Up Your MoT Profile (FUYMP) 🫠
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A quality engineer's guide to the Helpful, Honest, and Harmless Framework (HHH)
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A quality engineer's guide to the Helpful, Honest, and Harmless Framework (HHH)
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Risk matters more than ever
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Risk matters more than ever
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Risk matters more than ever
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11.9.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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What does accountability mean to you?
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What does accountability mean to you?
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What does accountability mean to you?
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It's good to talk
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Agent Guardrails and Controls: Applying the CORS Model to Agents
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My Goals for 2026
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Gaming your way to QA resilience
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After Outcry, Firefox Promises “Kill Switch” That Turns Off All AI Features
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My 2026 Goal: From Writing to Speaking
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My year in stars 🌟
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Deborah Sherwood - Scale and beyond: How to grow quality through others
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Meeting Simon at the MoT London Meetup
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My year in stars 🌟
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My year in stars 🌟
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My year in stars
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2025 Review
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Quality Engineers - Who are your customers?
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Demo of Vibium scripted manual install
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Signals in the Noise
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When UI Automation Slowly Loses Trust
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Diary of a QE Leader
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The 2025 Quality Engineering Index: 100 Insights
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The MoTaverse as a Community-as-a-Service
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The MoTaverse as a Community-as-a-Service
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Testing is...
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2026 Goals
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This Year in Review - 2025
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This Year in Review - 2025
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Ask Us Anything: Predictions & Plans for 2026
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The power of human touch in the AI era
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The power of human touch in the AI era
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A Quality Gate Based on Trust, Not Process
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Quality Gate v1.0
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Happy New Year, 2026
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ΜοΤ Athens in Valencia for the Selenium Conference
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"Helpful, Harmless, and Honest"
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Too Helpful, Too Harmless, Too Honest or Just Right?
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‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI
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When Amazon emails you saying your gifts won’t arrive until the 29th
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Are your ducks in a row?
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11.9.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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