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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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How do we convince product and project people about the importance of testing?
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Advocacy beyond developers
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Advocacy beyond developers
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Advocacy beyond developers
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"The advocation to those outside QA is tough. Its not a thing that gets solved, but it is possible to improve it but speaking their language. If I can help with advocating outside QA I will 🙏"
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River - Guardian of the MoTaverse
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Also, what happens when you ask quality people for feedback?
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Playing to your strengths to navigate a quality engineering job market
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Playing to your strengths to navigate a quality engineering job market
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MoTacon Singers
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"😂😂😂😂"
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MoTacon Singers
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MoTacon Singers
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The Small Changes Series: Ep2 - Adding Quality Without Slowing Your Teams Down
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Explore how quality engineering ensures defect prevention, automation and collaboration for better software
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Why does Quality Engineering matter?
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Why does Quality Engineering matter?
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Explore how quality engineering extends beyond traditional testing
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How is Quality Engineering different from testing?
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How is Quality Engineering different from testing?
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How teams implement quality engineering through collaboration, continuous testing and modern practices
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How are teams approaching Quality Engineering?
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How are teams approaching Quality Engineering?
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Stuart Thomas answers this question in 4 minutes
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What is Quality Engineering?
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What is Quality Engineering?
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MoTacon Singers
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MoTacon Singers
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MoTacon Singers
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Friday, 20 February 2026 TWIQ Nadja was quite rightly complementing Ady on his singing skills. Let it be known that Nadja can kick out a tune too at an impromptu MoTacon Karaoke! Alas I don't have ...
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Simon recently sent out a challenge to spend ten minutes exploring the MoT My Reports page. It seemed like a good excuse to try out my new exploratory testing template, so I decided to give it...
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Exploring My Reports
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Exploring My Reports
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Exploring My Reports
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Sigh + AI = sAIgh
It's that feeling and action when you let out a big sigh about AI.
The sigh often happens when AI:
- is overly positive
- not listening
- clearly wrong
- wasting your ti...
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sAIgh
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This Week in Quality
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My mission with MoT? Or at least one of them (😆) is to show how much value we can bundle into one membership. Simple one click access to all the things.
The more we build it. The more it beautif...
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A MoT Mission
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A MoT Mission
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A MoT Mission
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Loved recording the 404 talk for the SQEC Certification module on Monitorability, Observability, Testability. It was great to think about how these often forgotten areas of quality can be so impact...
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Monitorability, Observability, Testability
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Monitorability, Observability, Testability
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Not where we are – but where we’re going
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Super grateful for your comprehensive My Reports feedback. Thanks for running a charter to capture and share your observations.
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This Week in Quality
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