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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. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.

“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”

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Leading With Quality Lean Coffee
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Contributed to This Week in Quality
TWIQ or treat: Ghostly bug stories - Ep 110
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Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft sites down in Microsoft global outage
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Buggy cash machine
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Holistic Testing: Weave Quality into Your Product
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This Week in Boundary Testing
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This Week in Boundary Testing
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 48
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The entire stack, practically speaking, is owned by 3-4 players
Grateful for support
Very grateful to have your support Simon on every step of my journey. No matter what and how I do, you are always ready to help, offer kindness and cheer. You are truly exceptional. Thank you.
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Contributed to This Week in Quality
Curiosity killed the chat - Ep 109
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Expanded the MoTaverse
MoT Community Certificate
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AI Is Quietly Rewriting the Career Map for QA Engineers
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The State of PHP 2025
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Is Your Data Valid? Why Bufstream Guarantees What Kafka Can't
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Observe, assert, and validate (OAV)
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TBM 383: Maximizers vs. Focusers
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The price of mandatory code reviews
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Nathan Ladd: Relentless Improvement and the Cost of Neglect
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Design for All, Continuously: Automate Accessibility & Visual Quality for Your Website
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The Strategic Value of Agentic QA
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Visual Regression Testing Across Locales with Percy and WonderProxy
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Write an API Spec & Scaffold Fast with Postman Agent Mode
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Levels of Autonomy in Software Development: Closing the Gap Between Creation and Confidence
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The Complete Software Development Security Guide
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How quality is created, maintained and lost in complex software systems
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The Emotional Side of Building QA in a Startup
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Prompt Like a Pro: 10 Smart Ways to Hack Your Learning Curve
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Building your product with AI Workshops for Tech Women Week
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Too close to see the canvas – Part 2
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I Vibe Coded an App and Learnt Exactly What I Thought I Would
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Unintended consequences of prompt framing
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Fixing Claude Code's amnesia
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Why training alone is never the solution to ableist behavior
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OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse
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Atlas Ableism
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Mobile Ticketing Accessibility: Buying Haunted House Tickets with a Screen Reader
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B A D U X W O R L D C U P
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A Lack of Inspiration – Ideas for Community Sessions: Board Games
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Started a conversation on The Club
What happened to your influence and impact after transitioning to a new role?
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What happened to your influence and impact after transitioning to a new role?
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You Cannot Outsource Understanding
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Earned My MoT Community Certificate 🎓
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BREAKING. X marks the spot: Man found reading newspaper
It was good to talk
Thanks for being the first person to book a meeting with me through my link.

I always leave our conversations feeling super inspired and empowered!
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Mastering Professional Time Management - The Four Types of Time Every Leader Needs to Balance
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Accessibility is an axiom
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 47
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Submitted a Job to the Job Board
Senior Principal Software Engineer
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Contributed to This Week in Quality
Quality revelations: From SLO to better listening - Ep 108
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Testin' the time limit
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Testin' the time limit
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SLOs Are The API For Your Engineering Team
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Showing Tap Indicators on iOS Screen Recording
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Introducing BrowserStack’s Test Failure Analysis Agent: Debug Failures 95% Faster
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Agentic QA as a Quality Operating Model
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AI-First API Design: From Prompt to Production
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Top 10 Jira Testing Tools for QA Teams
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Bridging the Gap Between Reliable APIs and Unpredictable AI
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On Unit / Integration / Regression Tests and Terminology
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Most teams engineer products better than they engineer teams
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The beauty of constraints
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Engineering velocity on steroids
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Great managers meet uncertainty with curiosity and confidence
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The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?
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Planit Global Quality Index Report 2025/26
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Thoughts from a woman in tech on Dunelm’s Women In Tech Week
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Monitor logs from Amazon EKS on Fargate with Datadog
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Debug Docker Builds with Visual Studio Code
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Confluent: The Real-Time Backbone for Agentic Systems
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September 2025 in Auth0: Advanced Security Controls and Auth0 for AI Agents
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From Lakehouse to Digital Mind: Architecting a Multi-Agent AI Ecosystem on Databricks
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Copilot Instructions Example. Provide top-level page object with Copilot instructions for faster test writing.
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10 Tips for Writing Playwright Tests with Cursor
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Keep Stirring the Pot: Lessons from Julie & Julia
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Rapid test prototyping with MCP and AI
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A Lack of Inspiration – Ideas for Community Sessions: Lean Coffee
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The Uncanny Valley of AI Testers
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The greatest skill of a quality engineer!
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💡Quality Insight: How to Ignite Quality Conversations
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QR Podcast – Fiona Charles
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👋 Introductions Thread – Q4 2025
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Go Gary Go!
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Accessibility Maze
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A review of ”The Checklist Manifesto How to Get Things Right” by Atul Gawande
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Found a bug during Leading With Quality
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Measurements that matter?
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When There's Nobody There
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Quality in motion
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 46
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How Maestro is Reinventing Mobile Test Automation
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4 Steps to Create Effective API Docs Fast with Postman
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Selenium Grid vs. WonderProxy: What to Use When for Global Tests
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Katalon named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Software Testing | Announcement
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SmartBear Named a Challenger in the First-Ever Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Software Testing Tools
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Regression Testing: A Guide for QA Teams
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Build your engineering team like a dungeon party
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The Team Gift Exchange
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Using Narratives to Sharpen Testing Skills
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Leading with Quality/TestBash 2025 – A short review…
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Exploratory Interfaces alongside unit tests
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Why the Experimenter’s Mindset Outlasts Automation in Software Testing
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Software Testing GriftopAI
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Unpublished and closed my book
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The age-old question: Do testers need to be coders
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TestBash Brighton 2025: Reflections on Two Days of Quality
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Top three talks from TestBash 2025
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When do templates and checklists get in the way?
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From Templates to Heuristics: Enhancing Knowledge Work
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Attention, focus and AI
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Brag Board Template (How to Make Your Work – and Achievements – More Visible)
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Contributed to This Week in Quality
TWiQ: Testing in production - EP 107
Grateful for support
Thank you for inviting me to record a 99s talk to be played during MoTacon2025.
It was great seeing myself in there ^^
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They just kept turning up!
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Chatbot Testing with SBTM and Mike Talks
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Present to executives
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Build a network of peers
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Create space for others
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Learn to never be wrong
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To lead, you have to follow
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Staying aligned with authority
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5 Essential Tips for New Leaders in Quality
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"Get some fresh air," said Veerle Verhagen
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a11y together
It was good to see you
Was great to catch up and chat in person.  Thank you for your support over the last year and at MoTaCon! 😀
Thanks!
Thanks for organising a test of my tech set up before my MoTaCon talk, and the nice words of encouragement.
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Started a conversation on The Club
Name one thing you took away from MoTaCon
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Expanded the MoTaverse
🎉 3 Years in Software Testing – A Grateful Reflection! 🎉
It was good to meet
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Cool Pic with Simon
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Early start for the event team
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Then and Now - MoT workshop version in the old court room
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