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 "So What" Test
thanked contributors on:
At MoT London, very cool! Bug congrats to all the brave ones!
earned:
The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
awarded Bug for:
The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
awarded Ten10 for:
The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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
Focusing on balanced outcomes, not just output
But we insist on pure joy along the way.
Let's go!
This is Simon Tomes and Rosie Sherry at MoT London, which I just had to photoshop myself into.
Bug congrats from Bug!
Community Chatter, help us tag people, drop a comment if you spot yourself or someone you know in this photo.
Community Chatter, help us tag people, drop a comment if you spot yourself or someone you know in this photo.
A great group photo shot at MoT London.
With Simon Tomes, Luke Lattimer, Rosie Sherry, Stu Day, Eamon Droko and George Wells.
Simon Tomes and Rosie Sherry, did they fail at being serious? Or succeed with finding joy?
We'll never know.
Many thanks to Ten10 for supporting MoT London.
Good times at the MoT London Meetup, thanks to Ten10 for supporting.
Simon Tomes, Eamon Droko and Rosie Sherry pose for the camera.
Good times at MoT London, thanks for the support Ten10.
Simon Tomes, Simon Devon and Rosie Sherry pose for the camera.
Discover how Quality Coaching approaches help teams surface, understand and solve their quality problems
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