Gary Hawkes
QA Lead
He/Him
I am Open to Write, Mentor, Podcasting, CV Reviews
Software QA Lead and tester who loves to see people grow, processes continuously improve and help organisations understand and support Quality Engineering
Achievements
Certificates
Awarded for:
Achieving one or more Community Stars in five or more unique months
Activity
commented on:
"Great Article Ishalli! Saved into my private influential articles collection. As our team has gotten smaller over the years we have had to adapt. We've been learning to be far more risk based.
What we're missing currently is that insight from customer..."
thanked contributors on:
Prioritise high-impact user journeys and critical risks over exhaustive checklists to ensure essential product functions remain reliable and user-focused through a product-minded testing approach.
earned:
Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
awarded Ishalli Garg for:
Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
earned:
If your exploratory testing uncovers an area that may be an ideal candidate for automation, what steps would you go about communicating that to the developers/automators to get it done?
Contributions
Great question from Gary Hawkes.
If your exploratory testing uncovers an area that may be an ideal candidate for automation, what steps would you go about commun...
Collection of content related to Peerscon
All the talks at Peerscon 2026 were fabulous and I have scattered notes from each talk that I need to dissect and move forward with. However, I thought I'd share a very unique talk fro...
Loved having a chat with Jesse. We talked about our work and he gave me a very powerful story about his role and the work he did to be present in understanding the product and how its used, ra...
As I walked into the Trent Conference Centre, Emily O'Connor leapt off her seat and greeted me like an old friend with a big hug. I really appreciated that and it gave me a beaming smile as I ...
I took my girls down to the park. They did a bit roller skating at the skatepark whilst I hung out at the outdoor gym.I thought I'd riff
As I try to get myself back to running after getting a calf injury that just won't go away, I moved to the local outdoor gym to keep my fitness up and build up my strength again. Whenever I ge...
I may be on annual leave after travelling warp factor 5 to the planet rock and back again 🎸🤘, but sitting on the train is the perfect time to catch up with that backlog of bookmarked MoT articles a...
Hear honest job-search and career-change stories, pick up confidence-boosting advice from the community, and enjoy the wonderfully weird side-threads that make the MoTaverse feel like home.
Friday, 20 February 2026 TWIQ Nadja was quite rightly complementing Ady on his singing skills. Let it be known that Nadja can kick out a tune too at an impromptu MoTacon Karaoke! Alas I don't have ...
Swap your team’s favourite quality superstitions, laugh at cursed demos and disappearing bugs, and turn “don’t deploy on Fridays” from folklore into smarter release habits.
