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Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
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STEC and SQEC Certified. MoT Ambassador, writer, speaker, accessibility advocate. Consulting, Leeds Chapter Lead. MoT Certs curator. Testing wisdom, friendly, songs and poems. Great minds think differently
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2025 Review
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2025 Review
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Ethical testing
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Definitions of Ethical testing
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Definitions of Personally identifiable information (PII)
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We celebrated our last meetup of the year at the Christmas market at Alexanderplatz. What a wonderful year it was to hang out with people from Berlin and beyond! I'm looking forward to 20...
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the MoT Berlin meetup!
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the MoT Berlin meetup!
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the MoT Berlin meetup!
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from the MoT Berlin meetup!
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Rosie was asking on Slack if there are some 2026 goals we can share and potentially support each other. I'd love that. I'd like to share my thoughts as a memory.
I am usually doing some reflecti...
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Preliminary goals for 2026
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Preliminary goals for 2026
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2025 Review
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"Never mind, when I posted it, it refreshed and is showing now. Will look out for that behaviour. "
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"The video isn't working, Simon? "
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"That was my fun-ist one yet "
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Today's episode of TYIQ was super fun. Something different - where it started with Christmas theme based Lovely names and throughout the episode gained so much knowledge about MoTaverse facts and...
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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Today I complete 4 years of my journey in software testing.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7408369129822285827/
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21st December 2025...Four years in software testing today.
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21st December 2025...Four years in software testing today.
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2025 Review
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So there it is. My first full calendar year as a freelancer. Of course, the bulk of my work has been for the Ministry of Testing on first the Software Testing Essentials Certificate (STEC, STEC, ST...
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Philippa has written an awesome lesson on misconceptions in Quality Engineering for the Software Quality Engineering Certificate. Learners will love it and take so much away from it. Fantastic content! Â
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1.5.0 of Quality Coaching essentials
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2.6.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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2.5.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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11.1.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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11.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.0.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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1.5.0 of Quality Coaching essentials
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1.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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1.0.0 of Quality Coaching essentials
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