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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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Is GitHub Agentic Workflows putting exploratory testing back in the CI spotlight?
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Is GitHub Agentic Workflows putting exploratory testing back in the CI spotlight?
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Is GitHub Agentic Workflows putting exploratory testing back in the CI spotlight?
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While sitting here listening to Nataliia Burmei on the Into the MoTaverse podcast, Rosie asked for advice on how to build confidence. Nataliia's advice? "Do hard things. Do scary things." I got chi...
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Do Hard Things
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Do Hard Things
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In a recent conversation with Stuart day about some of the trickier points of testing and leadership, he offered the following advise:
"Think of your self as a Sat Nav, you are there to guide."
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You are a Sat Nav
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You are a Sat Nav
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You are a Sat Nav
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Moments now support formatting ๐
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Moments now support formatting ๐
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Catching up on the train
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This Week in Quality
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Catching up on the train
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Catching up on the train
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Catching up on the train
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Catching up on the train
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Catching up on the train
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I may be on annual leave after travelling warp factor 5 to the planet rock and back again ๐ธ๐ค, but sitting on the train is the perfect time to catch up with that backlog of bookmarked MoT articles a...
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I may be on annual leave after travelling warp factor 5 to the planet rock and back again ๐ธ๐ค, but sitting on the train is the perfect time to catch up with that backlog of bookmarked MoT articles a...
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Gabrijela facilitates the open space session at the Munich meetup.
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Gabrijela facilitates an open space session
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Gabrijela facilitates an open space session
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Gabrijela facilitates an open space session
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Gabrijela facilitates an open space session
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Holi is an indian festival that is about colors, energy, positivity and victory of goodness over evil.
Wishing the MoTaverse a happy holi and vibrant year ahead :)
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Happy Holi to the MoTaverse
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Happy Holi to the MoTaverse
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Happy Holi to the MoTaverse
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"100% support. I haven't even completed my first year but I've been able to extend my membership by contributing articles, course content etc. That's an easy sell to bosses, as long as we put the work in. Professional membership has changed me for the ..."
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We're tweaking our Professional Membership Model
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Creating new layers of care for Professional Membership
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Creating new layers of care for Professional Membership
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"Brilliant article. Over the years, my QA team had reduced from 13 to 4. We have had to react and do things differently as the luxury of lots of dedicated resources has gone. This is an inspiring article that will help me tackle that, so I've saved it. ..."
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Transform your teamโs approach to quality from a late-stage gatekeeper process into a proactive, shared responsibility that identifies risks early.
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Delivering quality and deploying on time when your team is small
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Delivering quality and deploying on time when your team is small
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I heard this on a recent Call for Insights (with Simon Tomes and Louise Woodhams), and it made me chuckle.
It's in reference to making attempts to shifting-left, but not really feeling the resul...
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The shift-left is not shifting-lefting
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The shift-left is not shifting-lefting
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