Gary Hawkes | Activities
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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Leverage AI as a personalised "code coach" to bridge the gap between manual testing and automation by translating plain English into executable scripts and providing line-by-line logic explanations.
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Coaching with code: using AI to learn how to automate tests
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Coaching with code: using AI to learn how to automate tests
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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This badge is awarded to those who share their knowledge and experience on a Call for Insights conversation.
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The high cost of stagnant pull requests: moving towards collaborative Quality
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Jagrit Gyawali argues that quality engineering is really about shared ownership, fast feedback, and confident delivery.
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Quality Engineering: From Assurance To Engineering Confidence
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Quality Engineering: From Assurance To Engineering Confidence
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Analyse the risks of stagnant pull requests and adopt a Quality Engineering mindset to reduce technical debt and accelerate value delivery through developer-led testing and faster merge cycles.
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Viola Lykova explains why teams should stop overtesting login page UI and instead focus on a handful of high-impact authentication journey tests.
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Stop Testing "Login Pages": Security-Aware Auth Testing From Real Scenarios
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Stop Testing "Login Pages": Security-Aware Auth Testing From Real Scenarios
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"This was fascinating! So much so I saved to one of my private collections so I can go back to it. Thanks for sharing 🙏"
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How do AI guardrails deal with millions of possibilities?
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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The problem with non-deterministic inputs and outputs
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Thanks for the great chat today at the Call For Insights recording!
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Why Publicly Appreciating Quality Thinking Builds a Stronger Quality Culture
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Quality Engineering with AI
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"Great Article Ishalli! Saved into my private influential articles collection. As our team has gotten smaller over the years we have had to adapt. We've been learning to be far more risk based.
What we're missing currently is that insight from customer..."
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Prioritise high-impact user journeys and critical risks over exhaustive checklists to ensure essential product functions remain reliable and user-focused through a product-minded testing approach.
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Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
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Product-minded testing: choosing what matters when everything feels important
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If your exploratory testing uncovers an area that may be an ideal candidate for automation, what steps would you go about communicating that to the developers/automators to get it done?
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Great question from Gary Hawkes.
If your exploratory testing uncovers an area that may be an ideal candidate for automation, what steps would you go about communicating that to the developers...
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"How would you store any context engineering templates so they can be re-used?"
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Context Engineering is a hot topic in the AI & Agentic AI world.If you feel like you need answers to something around this topic, ask me questions.I will try my best to answer your question, he...
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AMA about Context Engineering
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AMA about Context Engineering
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"If your exploratory testing uncovers an area that may be an ideal candidate for automation, what steps would you go about communicating that to the developers/automators to get it done? "
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Inspired by the following challenge: Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything.Thought I'd put myself out there to try my best to answer any question about exploratory testing. It's a topic I'm still...
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AMA about Exploratory Testing
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AMA about Exploratory Testing
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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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There’s a new AMA in town, and we’d love you to take part.An Ask Me Anything (AMA) is a simple way to put yourself out there on a topic you care about. You pick the topic, invite questions, and do ...
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Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything
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Create a Moment: Ask MoTaverse Anything
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The Quality Cost of the AI Vampire
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I have always been hearing about the power of communities and have been part of few before but MoT is different in many aspects. I first came to know about MoT in September 2024 when I booked my se...
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A year ago - Journey through Motaverse - Those 5 months in Motaverse!!
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A year ago - Journey through Motaverse - Those 5 months in Motaverse!!
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Peerscon - Quality is a Ballet
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Peerscon - What a welcome!
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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