Simon Tomes
Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
he/him
I am Open to Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Write, Teach, Speak, Mentor, Podcasting
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.
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
The Stars Align
earned:
The Stars Align
contributed:
Some really cool things happened last week for me in the MoTaverse so I thought I'd share some my highlights of my Quality Week in a memory post!
1. Getting some new badges for setting some goal...
thanked contributors on:
A Day in the Life at MOTAVERSE
earned:
A Day in the Life at MOTAVERSE
Interests
advocacy
all-things-community
asking-questions
bug
bugs
bugs-in-the-wild
charters
coaching
coaching-testers
community
conferences
conference-speaking
continuous-learning
design
diversity
drumming
events
experimentation
exploratory-testing
heuristics
leadership
memes
mentoring
mot-stec
music
oracles
podcasting
process-improvement
product-development
product-management
public-speaking
quality-strategy
space-duck
space-seagull
systems-thinking
team-enablement
testbash
testbash-brighton
testing
writing
Contributions
Some really cool things happened last week for me in the MoTaverse so I thought I'd share some my highlights of my Quality Week in a memory post!
1. Getting some new badges for setting some goal...
There is no pressure to participate in the MoTaverse. The only true pressure comes from yourself, to discover what's possible.
How can you safely encourage yourself to show up?
I enjoyed expl...
I enjoyed listening to Gary Hawkes and Parveen Khan during SQEC Module 4 Lesson 2.
I took notes...
See why sharing small things often is one of the most effective ways to learn and grow in your career
In 2026 I'd like to build consistency into my community-member focused blog writing habit and benefit from the good feeling of getting stuff out of my head and onto digital paper.
In 2026 I'd li...
Had a lovely chat with Neil Taylor. If you don't know him then you should check out his profile and goals for 2026. He's brought a lot and has plenty more to give back to the testing and quality co...
We wrapped up our first year of Ambassadoring, reflected on it, explored some ideas on how we can improve it.
As time came to the end, I was saying thank you and wasn't sure how to say goodbye,...
Ujjwal and I had a good old chat. During the convo I shared some thoughts about the MoTaverse star system.
Look out for your weekly community stars digest email. It's a good proxy to better und...
Ujjwal and I had a lovely chat. We talked a lot about how to contribute and how to encourage people to get involved.
We have always been sharing goals in our organisation at the start of the year. It is a great initiative by MoT team to share and talk about individual goals here. This gives us opportunity and spa...
Discover how testers are using public goals, badges and community support to grow their skills, gain confidence and make progress in 2026