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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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Testing AI-coded applications: Practical tips for software testers image
Tackle the messy reality of AI-coded apps with lessons learned, testing tips, and debugging insights.
A nice quality of a leader is to have a bravery to admit that you don't know something. Because it's not possible to know every other aspect of the processes, products and tools. — Oleksandr Rom...
Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London image
On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST). This year I spoke at the conferen...
Leadership in Quality image
Leadership do not come with the title. It's an art, style and capability to do it. Anyone can extend their hand, raise voice to lead who has a strong feeling and willingness to take the ownership a...
The Christine Pinto at TestBash 2024 image
Christine representin' Epic Test Quest
TestBash Workshop in action image
Serious learning faces in action during a TestBash 2024 workshop.
Explore with Emma: Quality Statements for LLMs image
Great memories from TestBash 2024 with sketchnoting taken by Emna for Bastian Knerr's talk. Data is everywhere and it's testable! Know your context! Agile is active! Learn the new domai...
Leadership in Quality image
Leadership in Quality
Gary Hawkes
Gary Hawkes
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Leadership in Quality image
Leadership do not come with the title. It's an art, style and capability to do it. Anyone can extend their hand, raise voice to lead who has a strong feeling and willingness to take the ownership a...
Leading with quality actions, not titles Ep95 image
Leading with quality actions, not titles Ep95
Gary Hawkes
Gary Hawkes
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Leading with quality actions, not titles Ep95 image
Tune in for real stories of testers stepping up, driving change, and building quality-first cultures
Callum Akehurst-Ryan: What does modern quality look like? image
Explore how leading with quality at an organisational level means balancing strategic change with day-to-day coaching and care.
Exploratory Testing: The Unsung Hero image
This meme captures the reality many testers face when flashy automation dashboards show near-perfect pass rates, but bugs still slip into production. Often, it’s the quiet power of exploratory test...
Leadership Talks: The Art of Letting Go image
I have always enjoyed the "doing" aspect of my job. For long, I considered this to be the pathway to excellence and leadership. However, in my recent endeavours with leadership, I have come to ...
"Make sure to get my good side" at BCS SIGiST 2025 image
Really enjoyed seeing all the pictures of the back of my head on so many LinkedIn posts from BCS SIGiST 2025 😂
Good people, good chats, good learning  image
19/07/25 London. Thanks to the SIGiST team for organising and running a lovely conference. Some solid talks about AI. At the end of the day myself, Eamon, Ayesha, Andy, Jit and Bug had a de...
MEO > SEO : MoTaverse Engine Optimisation image
We've been doubling down on the idea of MoTaverse, we are a platform. We are a place to gather. Whilst, this has been the case for many years, it's not since the past 12 months that we've put ou...
Most talks about quality don’t make it into developer conferences. This one did. image
Most talks about quality don’t make it into developer conferences. This one did. LDX3 received over 1,000 talk proposals. Mine was one of the few chosen to tackle quality leadership not archite...
How to get the most out of your MoT profile: Top tips for maximising value image
Use your MoT profile to showcase for your work and contributions and have a living portfolio that grows with you
Software Testing Live Ep 4, Exploratory testing notes image
What a great session, so many good insights and snippets, too many to log them all, but I very much enjoyed taking note of some of the words being used when talking about shifting left. - What n...
Me and Bug go to the 2025 BCS SIGiST Conference  image
“Bug! Bug! Bug!” shouted my seven year old son as I said goodbye to him for the day. He loves this Bug t-shirt. So the two of us (Bug, not my son) stand ready at the train station. We’re all se...
You're setting yourself up for failure if QA owns quality image
JItesh shared this powerful line about ownership during a The Testing Planet Cosmic Discussion: The limitations of shift-left and existing practices. Some questions to ask yourself about your cu...
Quality is Care image
10 ideas on putting care at the heart of quality engineering practices
A letter to the hiring manager of software testers: 10 years later image
Discover how the recruitment landscape has changed over the past 10 years, for both testers and hiring managers
Adding software testers successfully to any product team: Experiences, struggles, and tips image
Discover how to navigate the challenges of integrating into a team unfamiliar with dedicated testers
Gary Hawkes
Gary Hawkes
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This badge is awarded to members who choose to visibly support Pride on their Ministry of Testing profile.
Thanks for the community stars love 🤩 image
Judy Mosely mentioned on TWiT how she loves the community stars. Others chimed in giving our Community Stars (algorithm) much love. I think it was Mariem who said that she gets a notification...
Testing in Style: Hat Edition image
I found this pic from the memories of TestBash 2024. I and Christine having great talk about Quality keeping the Hat Mode Activated
Lisa Crispin: How can we be continuously curious? image
Discover how running small, courageous experiments can help any tester or quality-minded technologist truly lead with quality
Why 'Human in the Loop' isn’t enough. Introducing Quality in the Loop (QITL) image
Building trustworthy AI requires a partnership between the two
The one page test plan image
Create concise test plans that get read and understood by busy people
Lessons in quality engineering from working with Cursor and Windsurf image
Experiment with AI development tools to understand their impact on delivery speed and the quality challenges they create for engineering teams
When being a MoTher brings a whole new meaning image
Thanks for the name inspiration Elisse! I am now MoTher of the MoTaverse, I cannot unsee it!
The reality of change image
Anne-Marie reminds us of the reality of what we can and can't change when in a leadership position. And the binary nature can be profound when it comes to burnout. This reminds me of Steven Cov...
Everything I've learned has been through community image
As someone who started out with zero qualifications I've found that everything that I've learned has been through community. The stories. The resilience. Better practices. The new possibiliti...
I'm MoT music legend 🏆 image
Judy Mosley recently launched MoT Music League..I joined her an I enjoyed it A LOT! We submitted songs, we shared what we like and we had much of fun ✨ Thanks everyone who joined our league 🫰 ...
Hello, my name is Kulas Angeles image
I’m coming from Okotoks, Alberta, Canada I am Director for Software Quality Engineering at Sun Life Financial in Canada I’d love to meet others who are into coaching, personal development, qu...
I'm MoT music legend 🏆 image
I'm MoT music legend 🏆
Gary Hawkes
Gary Hawkes
contributed:
I'm MoT music legend 🏆 image
Judy Mosley recently launched MoT Music League..I joined her an I enjoyed it A LOT! We submitted songs, we shared what we like and we had much of fun ✨ Thanks everyone who joined our league 🫰 ...
TWiT - Knowing about testing box  image
It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box. Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product. ...
TWiT - Knowing about testing box  image
TWiT - Knowing about testing box
Gary Hawkes
Gary Hawkes
contributed:
TWiT - Knowing about testing box  image
It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box. Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product. ...
Hello, my name is Stuart Thomas image
Hello, my name is Stuart Thomas About Me: I’m coming from: Shropshire, UK My role is: Head of Quality I’d love to meet others who are into: Continuous improvement, both of teams and themselve...
Hello, my name is Ben Dowen image
I’m coming from: Mansfield, England, UK My role is: Lead Quality Engineer I’d love to meet others who are into: Collaborative ways of working, quality leadership and anything technology I'...
Leadership idea - build relationships image
You've heard the cliché, it's not what you know, it's who you know. When people see you as a leader and look to you for answers, you can't know everything. Invest time in building relationships not...
Hello, my name is Veerle Verhagen image
I'm coming from the Netherlands I'm a quality engineer for Dutch Railways I'm coming to TestBash as a host! I'm super interested in and would love to talk to others about human-centred technolog...
Hello, my name is Simon Tomes image
Here's my TestBash 2025 intro: I’m coming from: Teddington, Greater London My role is: Community Lead at Ministry of Testing I’d love to meet others who believe in the power of community t...
Hello, my name is Rosie Sherry  image
👋 About Me: I’m coming from: Brighton, not far to travel! My role is: Founder CEO of Ministry of Testing, with a very special interest in community building I’d love to meet others who ar...
My First selfie on my first day of work image
So on 21st September 2021, my first day as a testing intern, the moment I got my laptop, the first thing I did was take a selfie.🤗 I was a bit disappointed with the camera quality, which probably e...
Hello, my name is Christine Pinto image
👋 About Me: I’m coming from: Berlin, Germany My role is: CTPO of Epic Test Quest I’d love to meet others who are into: Future of AI in Testing, quality coaching, team enablement, and the future ...
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