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Gary Hawkes
QA Lead
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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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My Collection #5
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Collection of content related to Peerscon
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Who supports and manages quality engineers?
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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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...
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"Interestingly, we have a Quality Gate but its not really a gate that we police. Its in essence a 15 minute prod deployment review to make sure everyone is happy from their perspectives before we ship it. So at the very least it needs a rebrand.
However..."
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Sometimes all the stars align and you demo goes off without any issues.Last sprint I did a demo of the entire flow through new applications and talked for 20 minutes and nothing went wrong...
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Demi's Demo Luck
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Demi's Demo Luck
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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This Week in Quality
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Brag Board Template (How to Make Your Work – and Achievements – More Visible)
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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Peerscon - Insight with Jesse
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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...
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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...
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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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 ...
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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 ...
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This Week in Quality
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Share your week’s highlights, challenges, and lessons in quality
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MoTacon Singers
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Outdoor gym, test passed.
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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
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Outdoor gym, test passed.
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Outdoor gym, test passed.
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Outdoor gym, test passed.
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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
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Loved all your thoughts on getting a new role, interviews etc. with Rosie. I got a lot from that 🙏
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"This is really cool to read. It certainly parallels with my experience working with devs using coding agents. If their focus is "to build something", thats what their prompts will reflect and focus on. They won't reflect Product context, quality contex..."
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I took advantage of free Lovable credits on Sunday to get a vibe coded prototype of a resource that I've spent the past 6 years building in Notion.Partly, I was curious on how easily I...
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I vibe coded a website and I spent half of my time doing quality checks
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I vibe coded a website and I spent half of my time doing quality checks
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Today I’m launching something I’ve been thinking about for a long time. A new personal blog about testing, quality, and finding better ways of working.The first post starts with a line...
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Blog launch: Weave - Threads of Software Quality
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Blog launch: Weave - Threads of Software Quality
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Did things get worse when QA stopped being the quality gatekeeper?
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