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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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AMA about Leadership
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AMA about Leadership
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AMA about Leadership
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Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.Every organisation evolves and every person in it is unique with different needs. So leadership is tough when each step ...
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Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.Every organisation evolves and every person in it is unique with different needs. So leadership is tough when each step ...
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Ask the MoTaverse Anything about leadership
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A taste of what happened at a previous MoT Netherlands!
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MoT Netherlands at Squerist
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MoT Netherlands at Squerist
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MoT Netherlands at Squerist
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MoT Netherlands at Squerist
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"How do you communicate confidence in quality to those outside QE, when the confidence is beyond just the correctness of what was built?"
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Thanks for the question on my AMA, Gary! I will think about this and get an answer back to you.
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One small habit I’ve developed is updating my in-house job title to reflect the kind of testing I’m focused on at that moment.
Sometimes the title is straightforward. Sometimes it is slightly...
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Why I change my in-house job title to match the testing I’m doing
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Why I change my in-house job title to match the testing I’m doing
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"What do you do to set your career goals and motivate yourself to progress them, without having a likeminded team around you?"
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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Leverage AI as a personalised "code coach" to bridge the gap between manual testing and automation by translating plain English into executable scripts and providing line-by-line logic explanations.
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Coaching with code: using AI to learn how to automate tests
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Coaching with code: using AI to learn how to automate tests
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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This badge is awarded to members who share their knowledge and experience on a Call for Insights conversation.
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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Jagrit Gyawali argues that quality engineering is really about shared ownership, fast feedback, and confident delivery.
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Quality Engineering: From Assurance To Engineering Confidence
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Quality Engineering: From Assurance To Engineering Confidence
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Analyse the risks of stagnant pull requests and adopt a Quality Engineering mindset to reduce technical debt and accelerate value delivery through developer-led testing and faster merge cycles.
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Viola Lykova explains why teams should stop overtesting login page UI and instead focus on a handful of high-impact authentication journey tests.
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Stop Testing "Login Pages": Security-Aware Auth Testing From Real Scenarios
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Stop Testing "Login Pages": Security-Aware Auth Testing From Real Scenarios
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"This was fascinating! So much so I saved to one of my private collections so I can go back to it. Thanks for sharing 🙏"
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How do AI guardrails deal with millions of possibilities?
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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Thanks for the great chat today at the Call For Insights recording!
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Why Publicly Appreciating Quality Thinking Builds a Stronger Quality Culture
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Quality Engineering with AI
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"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..."
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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.
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Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
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Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
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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?
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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 communicating that to the developers...
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"How would you store any context engineering templates so they can be re-used?"
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Context Engineering is a hot topic in the AI & Agentic AI world.If you feel like you need answers to something around this topic, ask me questions.I will try my best to answer your question, he...
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