Gary Hawkes
Gary Hawkes
Head of Engineering
He/Him
Head of Engineering who came from QE. Admirer of all humans (with a special affinity for testers). I love to bring out the best in people and help them grow. I have a very tactical view of delivery and love working to find the sweet spot so that processes are balance between effort and value,
馃巶 MoTaBirthday | August 16, 2019
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An evening filled with conversations, discussions, exchanging thoughts with known and new faces. The video is just a snapshot - in reality it was much more fun filled, energetic and loads of ...
11 Oct
Running through my photos from MoTacon and LWQ, it was right that I share my meetup with Komal. I had a great chat with her on the Tuesday evening alongside Rahul, but I'll admit at the time it did...
7 Oct
It was my second time attending Leading with Quality and it couldn't have started in a better way: Stu started us off with his enganging workshop "Story Telling: bringing Quality to life" and oh di...
6 Oct
I just want to give a shoutout to Susanne. My first "gig" with the MoTaverse was a LwQ podcast in 2025 with Rosie that started from a comment I added to Rosies LinkedIn post asking for help around ...
2 Oct
What a darts team taught me about building high-performing quality teams
14 Jul
Follow one quality leader's move from QE into head of engineering, and find the mission and principles that can guide you too.
8 Oct
Using AI isn鈥檛 the same as doing good work.
21 Aug
Bugnetism
Where a quality engineer looks at a piece of software and bugs just jump out.
Specialist
A specialist is someone who chooses to focus on a set of skills they are passionate about to become a respected mentor and advisor in those skills.
Generalist
A generalist is someone who is passionate about their profession and working with people within it. They have sought understanding multiple areas of that profession without seeking to specialise in any of them, so can help specialists with how to approach situations that can impact others.
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Exploratory Testing with Teams Facilitator
Love this Adam! Taking this inspiration and running with it 馃憦馃檹
Make it joyful: How to build products that make people smile
Great talk Clare. I love watching talks on areas that jump start you our of the mundane day to day thinking and this is definitely one of them. Thanks so much for putting the effort in...still wearing the bracelet 馃榿
The fear factor in Software Testing: Recognize it, address it, transform it
So glad I caught up with this talk. Thanks Suzanne for putting this together, a great talk and one I'll act on. 馃檹
When LEGO tells you a story about yourself
It was a pleasure to be alongside you Nadja and thank you for making my pool, a cool pool. 馃
An introduction to Engineering Management
Sad I missed this one but I was on volunteer duties馃 . If you get the chance do another one, I'll make it a priority, 馃
Organise teams around value, then keep testing the boundaries
(robonsoftware.substack.com)
11 Aug
What an AI-Enabled Engineering Organisation Looks Like When It Is Working
(robonsoftware.substack.com)
09 Jul
AI Adoption Is an Organisational Design Decision, not a Tooling Decision
(robonsoftware.substack.com)
05 Jun
Looks like the agents escaped the sandbox
Um... it looks like those Playwright agents found a way to go back in time!
Contributor thanking
about 1 hour ago
Thanks for your contribution
Looks like the agents escaped the sandbox
Community Star
about 1 hour ago
Thanks for your contribution
Let's Mature This Conversation: Growth by Intention
Community Star
about 3 hours ago
An Evening of Connections - Dinner Organised by TestMu AI
An evening filled with conversations, discussions, exchanging thoughts with known and new faces. The video is just a snapshot聽 - in reality it was much more fun filled, energetic and loads of ...
Contributor thanking
about 5 hours ago
