Gary Hawkes | Activities

About Me: I’m coming from: Eastbourne, England, UK My role is: QA Lead I'm happy to talk about anything testing related, but particularly interested in talking tools, automation and quality engi...

Rosie and Simon talking about the importance and significance of certifications. Did someone say STEC? Yes, its buzzing STEC STEC STEC STEC 🙌

In search of quality. And in having conversations about leading with quality. I can't help but think about software quality. It is out there. And each conversation helps formulate my th...

05/04/19, Brighton. A TestBash 2019 Apple Photos memory just popped up on my iMac. Rosie Sherry encouraged me and my business partner, Rajit Singh, to develop a physical version of TestBudd...

Huge kudos to Ady for an amazing testing song he brought into MoT 4.0 meet up to London yesterday. Watch the video and sing with Ady. Also Ady travelled 450 miles round trip to join the meet up ...

Thank you for getting involved on The Club. You always arrive with knowledge to share and tonnes of encouragement. Team MoT notices this all and appreciates it. 

MoT London Meetup. 26/06/25. The wonderful one-and-only Gary Shannon shares an emotional story of his upbringing and incredible achievements via the power of community. He's a top bloke and...

After many train delays, almost turning back I’m on my way!

There were so many great comments in the chat during The Awesome Power of Shifting Left.I captured a few of them. Thanks everyone for you commentary contributions.

We've been investing and expanding our MoT Meetups over the past year. And it's really starting to show. Just today, about 600 people are gathering in real life, across the MoTaverse in 4 dif...

See you soon folks. Looking forward to another MoT London Meetup.

An intentional community investment to explore and expand how to lead with quality

Explore how quality engineering ensures defect prevention, automation and collaboration for better software

Manish Saini shares a wonderful analogy in STEC Module 16, Lesson 1: What is technical testing?

Inspired by this Club thread: https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/the-job-market-is-rough-how-can-we-help/85347 started by Judy Mosely and with some helpful responses from others, I posted offers ...

Tackle the messy reality of AI-coded apps with lessons learned, testing tips, and debugging insights.

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...

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...

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...

Christine representin' Epic Test Quest

Serious learning faces in action during a TestBash 2024 workshop.

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...

Leadership in Quality

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...

Leading with quality actions, not titles Ep95

Tune in for real stories of testers stepping up, driving change, and building quality-first cultures

Explore how leading with quality at an organisational level means balancing strategic change with day-to-day coaching and care.

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...

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 ...

Really enjoyed seeing all the pictures of the back of my head on so many LinkedIn posts from BCS SIGiST 2025 😂

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...

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...

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...

Use your MoT profile to showcase for your work and contributions and have a living portfolio that grows with you

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 not h...

“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...

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...

10 ideas on putting care at the heart of quality engineering practices

Discover how the recruitment landscape has changed over the past 10 years, for both testers and hiring managers

Discover how to navigate the challenges of integrating into a team unfamiliar with dedicated testers

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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...

I found this pic from the memories of TestBash 2024. I and Christine having great talk about Quality keeping the Hat Mode Activated

Discover how running small, courageous experiments can help any tester or quality-minded technologist truly lead with quality

Building trustworthy AI requires a partnership between the two

Create concise test plans that get read and understood by busy people

Experiment with AI development tools to understand their impact on delivery speed and the quality challenges they create for engineering teams

Thanks for the name inspiration Elisse! I am now MoTher of the MoTaverse, I cannot unsee it!

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...

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...