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Ady Stokes
Freelance Consultant
He / Him
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
awarded MoT Leeds for:
Testing saved my side hustle
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Testing saved my side hustle
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Testing saved my side hustle
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Testing saved my side hustle
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Testing saved my side hustle
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I always enjoy meet-ups and hosting them. Here I am introducing Colin, getting distracted by Scott and telling the audience corny jokesÂ
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Oh dear, wrong train
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Good start. Apparently I’m on the wrong train. It arrived at the right time, no tannoy, no words on the side. Set off said it was the Bradford one. Looked at app, Leeds is 11 minutes delayed. I’ll ...
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MoT Leeds
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I am a fan of what you do and how you do it.It is always wonderful to get feedback on my work from you.You enable me to LEVEL UP!
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Solirius Reply GAAD 2026 - Dev or No Dev: Decoding Accessible Development
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Solirius Reply GAAD 2026: Mind the Gap - Shifting left in accessibility
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Solirius Reply GAAD 2026 - The Accessibility Toolkit talk
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The quirky little bug that taught me a valuable testing lesson
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The quirky little bug that taught me a valuable testing lesson
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1.8.0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
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1.6.0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
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Disaster testing your recovery process
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New test team: 70% put test strategy as the most critical
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An introduction to Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines for software testers
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New test team: 70% put test strategy as the most critical
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New test team: 70% put test strategy as the most critical
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What is software quality?
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2.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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4.1.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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4.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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3.6.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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3.3.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Any of my former coworkers can confirm that I can talk about QA for hours at work, where I'm comfortable; where I know the audience. I've never done anything like the insights conversation be...
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Stepping out of my comfort zone
awarded Brandy Brotherton for:
Stepping out of my comfort zone
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Stepping out of my comfort zone
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New feature equals bugs in live
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Prime Video have put out Spider-man Noir in colour and black and white. There are reports of only one version available in some places. Apps needing updates etc. I love super hero stories, hav...
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Member joined MoT Leeds chapter
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6.0.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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3.2.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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4.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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We've started to build the Achievements area in company profiles, and the badges for our Partners are now out!So good to see WonderProxy are triple gold medallists! 🏅
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Gold Gold Gold
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Gold Gold Gold
awarded WonderProxy for:
Gold Gold Gold
awarded Paul Reinheimer for:
Gold Gold Gold
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The success message is a lie: A technical guide to debugging broken email integration
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The success message is a lie: A technical guide to debugging broken email integration
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