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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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The end of 2025 was emotionally one of the hardest periods for me since 2022. Living in a world full of political changes while war is happening in your own country is not easy. Blackouts, massive ...
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My 2026 Goals ✨
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My 2026 Goals ✨
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4.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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4.1.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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If 2025 was my year of rebuilding, reconnecting, and rediscovering momentum, then 2026 feels like the year where everything accelerates at once. Not in a chaotic way, but more like a well‑timed mon...
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2026: A Year of Stages, Stories, and Side‑Quests
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2026: A Year of Stages, Stories, and Side‑Quests
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For the last five years every year i would sit down and write a list of goals and resolutions that i would like to achieve , and then nothing truly ever change ... This realization hits me every la...
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Showing up - 2026
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Showing up - 2026
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I joined an interesting webinar with Stu Day and Ash Gawthorp (CTO, Co-Founder of Ten10):
Leading Through the AI Revolution: Considerations for Integrating AI into Your Business DNA.
The dis...
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What do your AI guardrails look like?
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What do your AI guardrails look like?
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What do your AI guardrails look like?
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What do your AI guardrails look like?
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In 2026 I'd like to build consistency into my community-member focused blog writing habit and benefit from the good feeling of getting stuff out of my head and onto digital paper.
In 2026 I'd li...
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Starter goals for 2026
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Starter goals for 2026
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Year 2025 was a unique year in my throughout professional journey. A year which was full of challenges, lot of learning, meeting so many people and many more. The year when I started to participate...
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My Goals 2026 - Learn, Adapt and Grow together
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My Goals 2026 - Learn, Adapt and Grow together
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I enjoyed listening to Gary Hawkes and Parveen Khan during SQEC Module 4 Lesson 2.
I took notes...
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Who supports and manages quality engineers?
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Who supports and manages quality engineers?
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Who supports and manages quality engineers?
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Who supports and manages quality engineers?
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I enjoyed listening to Gary Hawkes and Parveen Khan during SQEC Module 4 Lesson 2.
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Small posts, big learnings: Why sharing matters more than ever - Ep 120
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See why sharing small things often is one of the most effective ways to learn and grow in your career
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Thanks for joining the stage during TWiQ. Great to hear from you!
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This Week in Quality
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We wrapped up our first year of Ambassadoring, reflected on it, explored some ideas on how we can improve it.
As time came to the end, I was saying thank you and wasn't sure how to say goodbye,...
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Make your best Ambassador face
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Make your best Ambassador face
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Make your best Ambassador face
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Make your best Ambassador face
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Make your best Ambassador face
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Make your best Ambassador face
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Make your best Ambassador face
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Make your best Ambassador face
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Make your best Ambassador face
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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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1.0.0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
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1.0.0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
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1.1.0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
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1.1.0 of A tester’s role in continuous quality
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