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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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The shift-left is not shifting-lefting
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The shift-left is not shifting-lefting
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Transition from reactive quality assurance to proactive quality engineering by embedding shared responsibility throughout the entire development lifecycle
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What is software quality?
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What is software quality?
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"You know what, I wasn't sure when I started to read this as to what new things it will open up...BUT as soon as you brought in the ISO and IEEE standards amongst all the other sources, this is a really thought provoking read. Are the industry standards..."
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99 Second Talks – Day 1 – TestBash Brighton / MoTaCon 2025
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99 Second Talks – Day 1 – TestBash Brighton / MoTaCon 2025
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Thanks for putting this together in an online form. Our teams are remote and scattered so it was good to see how it could work. 🙏
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RiskStorming: Artificial Intelligence
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Stop selling gold when all you've got to offer is a process
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Welcome to Mount Stupid or The Illusion of Expertise
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What I actually do when I walk into a team with no QA at all
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What do ducks, toilet seats, and eggs have in common?
This Week in Quality, apparently.
Doesnt sound like much of a punchline, but if you know you know. You just had to be there. And that's the...
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Ducks, Toilet Seats, and Eggs, oh my!
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Ducks, Toilet Seats, and Eggs, oh my!
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Grateful moment !!
Happy to share 900+ Stars on Ministry of Testing ⭐
Special thanks to Ministry of Testing, Rosie Sherry and Simon Tomes , Sarah Deery for the constant inspiration and support 🙌
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900+ Stars in MoT
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900+ Stars in MoT
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900+ Stars in MoT
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900+ Stars in MoT
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"Without my Pro membership and MoT, I wouldn't have been as successful as a software tester or learned as much as I have from the hundreds of members through talks, articles, insights, and discussi...
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🤔 What would your life had been like, without your Pro Membership Ady Stokes?
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🤔 What would your life had been like, without your Pro Membership Ady Stokes?
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🤔 What would your life had been like, without your Pro Membership Ady Stokes?
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Even more so with something as personal as a blog, where we put ourselves out there for the world to see.
I came to testing mid-career, and the transition was intense. It didn’t take long before...
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They often say getting started is the hardest part.
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They often say getting started is the hardest part.
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Thank you very much Gary for joining us on stage last Friday in This week in Quality show. Thanks for sharing your story, your daughter's story and showing us how support can make people's dream come true.
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Great to hear your story around the subject of leaving jobs and managing a family. Resonated with me 🙏
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Great work hosting Eamon 👏
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Great work hosting Nat 👏
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Thank you for sharing in this weeks TWiQ episode
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Eggs, toilet seats and fundamental quality career advice - Ep 125
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Hear honest job-search and career-change stories, pick up confidence-boosting advice from the community, and enjoy the wonderfully weird side-threads that make the MoTaverse feel like home.
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Thanks for sharing on stage during This Week in Quality.
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This Week in Quality
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"I used to have a whale mug where the handle was in the shape of its tale. Whilst I admired its accuracy in design, fish tales are not exactly designed to be held."
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MoTacon Singers
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MoTacon Singers
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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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Explore shift right and how to practice it within testing
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We can test in production: An introduction to shifting testing right
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We can test in production: An introduction to shifting testing right
awarded Callum Akehurst-Ryan for:
We can test in production: An introduction to shifting testing right
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We can test in production: An introduction to shifting testing right
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"I've established the principle to "politely" not wait to be invited by product and project people and start influencing them as soon as I can. For example, with product people I track when they create stories. I can either wait for the refinement sessi..."
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Great work Callum. Your masterclass has given me enough to start the conversation about what we could add. 🙏
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