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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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Tackle the messy reality of AI-coded apps with lessons learned, testing tips, and debugging insights.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Christine representin' Epic Test Quest
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Serious learning faces in action during a TestBash 2024 workshop.
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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...
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Leadership in Quality
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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...
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Leading with quality actions, not titles Ep95
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Tune in for real stories of testers stepping up, driving change, and building quality-first cultures
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Explore how leading with quality at an organisational level means balancing strategic change with day-to-day coaching and care.
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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...
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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 ...
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Really enjoyed seeing all the pictures of the back of my head on so many LinkedIn posts from BCS SIGiST 2025 😂
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Use your MoT profile to showcase for your work and contributions and have a living portfolio that grows with you
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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10 ideas on putting care at the heart of quality engineering practices
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Discover how the recruitment landscape has changed over the past 10 years, for both testers and hiring managers
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Discover how to navigate the challenges of integrating into a team unfamiliar with dedicated testers
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This badge is awarded to members who choose to visibly support Pride on their Ministry of Testing profile.
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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...
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I found this pic from the memories of TestBash 2024. I and Christine having great talk about Quality keeping the Hat Mode Activated
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Discover how running small, courageous experiments can help any tester or quality-minded technologist truly lead with quality
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Building trustworthy AI requires a partnership between the two
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Create concise test plans that get read and understood by busy people
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Experiment with AI development tools to understand their impact on delivery speed and the quality challenges they create for engineering teams
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Thanks for the name inspiration Elisse!
I am now MoTher of the MoTaverse, I cannot unsee it!
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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...
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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...
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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 🫰
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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...
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I'm MoT music legend 🏆
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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 🫰
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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.
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TWiT - Knowing about testing box
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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.
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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...
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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'...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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👋 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...
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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...
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👋 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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