Gary Hawkes
QA Lead
He/Him
Software QA Lead and tester who loves to see people grow, processes continuously improve and help organisations understand and support Quality Engineering
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Achieving one or more Community Stars in five or more unique months
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Why Quality teams are built on character, not just skills
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Why Quality teams are built on character, not just skills
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Why Quality teams are built on character, not just skills
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Why Quality teams are built on character, not just skills
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Contributions
What a darts team taught me about building high-performing quality teams
Over the last couple of weeks I was hearing stories in the Motaverse where good people were feeling oppressed, disrespected or worse bullied in their organisations. This is something I encountered ...
We love a good TWiQ episode that celebrates the wins. And in today's episode we did just that.ย So here goes, we celebrated the following wins...
Diana Dromeyย ran her first ever 10k, goin...
A celebratory 'wins' episode full of community milestones, personal breakthroughs, bug catches, career confidence, and the many small moments that keep the MoTaverse moving.
On the 15th of January 2026 myself and Ujjwal Kumar Singh joined a call and pressed record. We were curious to see what would happen. A few weeks later Iโd done the same with Neil Taylor and Clare ...
A hot-takes episode on AI dependency, community knowledge sharing, silos, and why exploratory testing matters more than ever as software teams move faster.
Upon my AMA about how baking a cake is the same as developping software moment Gary Hawkes asked "How do the teams responsibilities in a bakery, align with a quality engineering team?". Immediately...
I had a gig on Saturday with my band Jazz Division in a gorgeous setting in Norfolk supporting The Brain Tumour Charity and Mind. Something came out of this that I thought was relevant to how we co...
I remember something Ady said is that you can always learn something new from training courses at any level. I've got 2 ISTQB foundations certs and after achieving those 15 years ago, I've not real...
In TWiQ today, Aj raised the idea of self-service infrastructure and it got me thinking about how that is related to platform engineering. Something I realise I don't know enough about, but a recen...