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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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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 following on from Gary's post on an outdoor gym failing test...
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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 following on from Gary's post on an outdoor gym failing test...
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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 could replic...
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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 from Winnie-...
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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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Mind the QA of the gaps
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Mind the QA of the gaps
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Mind the QA of the gaps
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"I'm guilty! I'm jumping across gaps all the time 🤚. But what I try to do is focus on influencing responsibilities that can act on knowing who should fill the gap or those who probably should own that responsibility. I make it explicit, "I will help wit..."
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Shift from treating AI as a "single source of truth" to using it as a "clarity booster" for human-led ideas.
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Stop delegating your thinking: Using 5 whys to check AI documentation
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Stop delegating your thinking: Using 5 whys to check AI documentation
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Modernise your design strategy with mobile-first and keyboard-centric approaches that create more resilient, accessible, and user-friendly software.
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Everyday accessibility: 7 ways to do a little a11y every day
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Everyday accessibility: 7 ways to do a little a11y every day
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Everyday accessibility: 7 ways to do a little a11y every day
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You Ship It, You Own It.
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Lessons learnt from gardening
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Outdoor Gym - Basic Accessibility Test Failure
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Engineering Leaders Shape How Change Reaches Customers
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Why showing up helps quality professionals acknowledge their continuous learning journey
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One to one interactions spark community curiosity and confidence
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One to one interactions spark community curiosity and confidence
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One to one interactions spark community curiosity and confidence
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"I found this chat really reassuring 🤗. As much as I loved MoTacon and felt it was the best experience of my professional life so far, I had moments where I was overwhelmed. So its great to hear people like Chris also share they felt that too. I'm also ..."
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Evolve from executor to orchestrator by integrating AI and holistic product insights to accelerate quality in high-stakes engineering environments.
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Pranav Pandit - Orchestrating AI driven quality engineering
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Pranav Pandit - Orchestrating AI driven quality engineering
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Pranav Pandit - Orchestrating AI driven quality engineering
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"Great conversation. Engineering often get look at as the sole responsibility for shipping faster. But when we step back we realised that engineering can only go as fast as every process from Product to the customer will allow.
I think Quality Engineer..."
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How is friction helping and not helping software engineering and testing teams?
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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Friction has a complex relationship with quality
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AI guardrails: Non-negotiable safety or overly cautious "slowdowns"?
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Speed without guarded verification is risky business
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