Gary Hawkes | Activities
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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.
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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.
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And the Ambassadors of the MoTaverse for 2026 are... 🥁
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River - Guardian of the MoTaverse
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Grateful for all your supportive comments on my recent contributions to the MoTaverse :)
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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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And the Ambassadors of the MoTaverse for 2026 are... 🥁
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And the Ambassadors of the MoTaverse for 2026 are... 🥁
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Looking forward to collaborating with you as a MoTaverse Ambassador in 2026. Big bug congrats on this well‑deserved recognition! 🏆
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The curse of the live demo… and other testing superstitions - Ep 123
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Swap your team’s favourite quality superstitions, laugh at cursed demos and disappearing bugs, and turn “don’t deploy on Fridays” from folklore into smarter release habits.
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I have to say Clare I found your LwQ talk with Rosie amazing. What you do is so impressive, I've said this in a private collection of inspiring talks. Thanks so much 🙏
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"I found this so inspiring and so interesting to listen to. Thank you Clare! "
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Master the art of quality coaching by learning how to facilitate activation sessions that empower developers to own automation and identify wobbly code
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Clare Norman - The art of activating quality people
Gary Hawkes
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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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