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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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Exploring My Reports
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Exploring My Reports
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Sigh + AI = sAIghIt's that feeling and action when you let out a big sigh about AI.The sigh often happens when AI:- is overly positive- not listening- clearly wrong- wasting your time- AI is halluc...
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sAIgh
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This Week in Quality
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My mission with MoT? Or at least one of them (😆) is to show how much value we can bundle into one membership. Simple one click access to all the things.
The more we build it. The more it beautif...
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A MoT Mission
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A MoT Mission
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A MoT Mission
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Loved recording the 404 talk for the SQEC Certification module on Monitorability, Observability, Testability. It was great to think about how these often forgotten areas of quality can be so impact...
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Monitorability, Observability, Testability
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Monitorability, Observability, Testability
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Not where we are – but where we’re going
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Super grateful for your comprehensive My Reports feedback. Thanks for running a charter to capture and share your observations.
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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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Joined MoT London chapter
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Joined MoT Cambridge chapter
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Joined MoT Brighton chapter
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"Love the way you framed this as cognitive load is problem not always acknowledged as you indicate. But when you list the symptoms for overload, I can see a lot of testers (including me) going "hey, thats me!". Great work 👏"
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Identify sources of unnecessary cognitive load and apply strategies to focus on meaningful analysis and exploration.
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Managing cognitive load for better software testing
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Managing cognitive load for better software testing
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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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4.2.0 of MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate
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"I love the reference to what a customer thinks is an issue is not always what testers think is an issue. I think thats why its so beneficial to get people into QA/QE from support, dev, product backgrounds as that really powers up the perspectives of wh..."
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Deciding what really matters can be hard, yet it doesn't have to be that way
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What quality tensions are worth negotiating?
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What quality tensions are worth negotiating?
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What quality tensions are worth negotiating?
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Testing Management: QA Leadership Skills for Sustainable Quality
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Also, don't automate quality, automate testing
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This is quality
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This is quality
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Explore the parallels between the lessons Stephen learnt in the RAF and his current work.
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Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains
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Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains
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Noted.
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Ben Dowen dropped a Google Meet link in the MoT Slack.
And then this happened.
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🤭 An impromptu Friday virtual meet is better with filters
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🤭 An impromptu Friday virtual meet is better with filters
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🤭 An impromptu Friday virtual meet is better with filters
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🤭 An impromptu Friday virtual meet is better with filters
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With the Chapters currently under going a mass migration, it is an opportunity to have some MoTaverse branding fun.
Migrating 50+ Chapters (previously called meetups), has many many steps. Some ...
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A fresh MoT Brighton vibe.
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A fresh MoT Brighton vibe.
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A fresh MoT Brighton vibe.
Jira Issue Connect brings live, real-time Jira data directly into TestRail, eliminating tab-switching and stale fields.
Catch the on-demand session with gaming legend John Romero and see how we’re redefining software quality at AI speed.
Manage your entire QA lifecycle in one place. Sync Jira, automate scripts, and use AI to accelerate your testing.
Testkube CTO Ole Lensmar goes live. Real AI-driven testing. Real Kubernetes environments, real answers. May 21, 1pm ET.
