Gary Hawkes | Activities
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AMA Answer: How would you store any context engineering templates so they can be re-used?
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AMA Answer: How would you store any context engineering templates so they can be re-used?
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Demi Van Malcot asks:
When I'm joining a podcast, I sometimes forget I'm not visible and am gesturing while explaining things. What do you think are the pros and cons of a podcast being an audio-on...
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What do you think are the pros and cons of a podcast being an audio-only medium?
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What do you think are the pros and cons of a podcast being an audio-only medium?
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What do you think are the pros and cons of a podcast being an audio-only medium?
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"Really enjoyed that 👏"
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How does a team’s stage of development influence the style of quality engineering it needs to thrive?
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Quality Engineers do their best work when a team is forming
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Quality Engineers do their best work when a team is forming
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Quality Engineers do their best work when a team is forming
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"I think when you've been in long maintenance phases like I have, you do have to inject a "re-forming" phase where you choose to do things differently and shake the tree a bit for the tean. Because, it is a danger when you're in a long maintenance perio..."
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How do we strengthen our foundational knowledge amid rapid AI growth?
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Foundations favour the AI brave
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Foundations favour the AI brave
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Foundations favour the AI brave
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The tech world is exploding (thanks to AI); Also, sources of information are exploding (Again, thanks to AI).Today I was discussing with Simon during our call for insights session, how it's getting...
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Sources of Testing / Tech / AI Information
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Sources of Testing / Tech / AI Information
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Sources of Testing / Tech / AI Information
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"I've never thought about it like this before, but there is nothing negative scrolling through the MoTaverse. So joyscrolling is definitely a thing! 😁"
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The wonderful Sarah Kitchener and I were discussing how we can continue to encourage folks to make the most our of their MoTaverse professional membership. We acknowledged that time is indeed preci...
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Do you MoTafirst?
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Do you MoTafirst?
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Do you MoTafirst?
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This question comes from AMA about how non-technical teams can contribute to quality: I'm a Marketing PM at an AI test automation company & was asked by Rosie Sherry.Great question. My answer m...
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Can you give 3 practical examples of how marketing has contributed to building a better product?
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Can you give 3 practical examples of how marketing has contributed to building a better product?
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Can you give 3 practical examples of how marketing has contributed to building a better product?
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To say something worth saying is not to be a genius, it’s to be brave. It’s to be the one to say it and have courage. – Stephen West
I love this line from Stephen West (Check out his podcast if not...
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To say something worth saying is not to be a genius, it’s to be brave.
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To say something worth saying is not to be a genius, it’s to be brave.
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How should we report on quality?
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The medium matters
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The medium matters
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The medium matters
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How do you communicate confidence in quality to those outside QE, when the confidence is beyond just the correctness of what was built?
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AMA Leadership Answer - How do you lead if your position has no authority?
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AMA Leadership Answer - How did you figure out what kind of leader you wanted to be, what was the turning point?
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What are your do's and don'ts to producing a quality podcast?
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Testing In The Time Of AI
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When Effort Isn’t Enough: A Systems Approach To Leadership
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How Long Contexts Fail
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Is a tech community worth your time?
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Gary Hawkes asks:
I agree that podcasting has become a very powerful medium to communicate. What are your do's and don'ts to producing a quality podcast?
I'll answer this with a production head in...
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What are your do's and don'ts to producing a quality podcast?
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What are your do's and don'ts to producing a quality podcast?
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For my AMA on Accessibility Testing, Gary Hawkes asked. "There are a number of tools like Axe as the tool we use to assess accessibility. Where do the tools fall short?" This is a great question, a...
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There are a number of tools like Axe as the tool we use to assess accessibility. Where do the tools fall short?
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There are a number of tools like Axe as the tool we use to assess accessibility. Where do the tools fall short?
Gary Hawkes
Head of Engineering
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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. Recently promoted to Head of Engineering (Jul 2026).
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