Gary Hawkes
QA Lead
He/Him
I am Open to Write, Mentor, Podcasting, CV Reviews
Software QA Lead and tester who loves to see people grow, processes continuously improve and help organisations understand and support Quality Engineering
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Achieving one or more Community Stars in five or more unique months
Activity
thanked contributors on:
We are incredibly excited to welcome Nancy Kelln to MoTaCon!Nancy has spent years rescuing chaotic, politically tangled implementations, and she’s identified a 'hidden' set of superpowers that qual...
earned:
🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
awarded Diana Dromey for:
🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
awarded Nancy Kelln for:
🖖 The hidden leadership of Quality Professionals: skills you only earn when everything goes to hell
earned:
Small posts, big learnings: Why sharing matters more than ever - Ep 120
Contributions
This episode fired me up with the AI debate. I still believe that today, that our systems thinking has never been more important. I was thinking about this over the weekend.From early on in my Test...
Where a quality engineer looks at a piece of software and bugs just jump out.
I'll admit last week I was quite low. I'd seen over the last few weeks examples of where AI was used by a handful of developers and product managers in a way I felt treated quality with contempt. A...
Another great question asked by Gary Hawkes for the :
AMA about transition from Manual to Automation Tester
From knowing manual testing to learning automation, what have you learned that can be son...
For my AMA on Accessibility Testing, Gary Hawkes asked. "There are a number of tools like Axe as the tool we use to assess accessibility. Where do the tools fall short?" This is a great question, a...
Gary Hawkes asks:
I agree that podcasting has become a very powerful medium to communicate. What are your do's and don'ts to producing a quality podcast?
I'll answer this with a production head in...
Thanks for the question Emily!I remember being on a management course based on the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey many years ago. The course was great and I absorbed all ...
So Richards question in full was "My biggest challenge when I was in a leadership role was that it wasn't a position of authority. Whilst I was the leader on how to think about quality and testing,...
The turning point was in my previous role back in 2018. I'd had a cycle of : leadership role -> lose confidence from mistakes -> take a contributor role -> get promoted to leadership...
This question is taken from the AMA about quality beyond correctness, and comes from Gary Hawkes.
How do you communicate confidence in quality to those outside QE, when the confidence is beyond jus...
