Gary Hawkes | Activities
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Re-enacting the chef's kiss and the good problem of MoT Profiles
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Re-enacting the chef's kiss and the good problem of MoT Profiles
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Bring your favourite Dev or EM to MoTaCon, on us 😉
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Bring your favourite Dev or EM to MoTaCon, on us 😉
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What “Project Hail Mary” Taught Me About Working in Tech (part 4)
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What's Good? Episode 1 - Be More Human
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A 'good problems' episode about production-testing drama, MoTaverse growth, new voices, lifelong learning, and how community conversations help people keep going.
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The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress
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The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress
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The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress
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The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress
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The good stuff: Problems, podcasts, and progress
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Happy days at the recent MoT London sponsored by Scale Factory.The MoTographer papped me and Diana posing for a selfie. Hopefully Diana can dig up the actual selfie and post a link in the comments.
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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The photo of the selfie, say cheese!
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Being helpful, livestream gaming and the testing edge
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Being helpful, livestream gaming and the testing edge
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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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Overcoming Toxic Leadership: Real Stories
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Being helpful, livestream gaming and the testing edge
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Being helpful, livestream gaming and the testing edge
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Being helpful, livestream gaming and the testing edge
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Being helpful, livestream gaming and the testing edge
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A community-led episode on job hunting, scaling quality engineering, authentic career growth, AI adoption, gaming, and the value of staying connected when the industry feels noisy or uncertain.
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The Ministry of Testing podcasts have supported testers worldwide, now it needs our support. Take a minute to vote and help put MoT in the running for a British Podcast Award. Vote for "This Week i...
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🎧 One Vote. Big Impact.
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🎧 One Vote. Big Impact.
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On the train home after speaking at Birmingham DevOps last night, I’ve been thinking about why I’ve started to love getting back into public speaking. It is not really the technology itself anymore...
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When a technical demo becomes something more
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When a technical demo becomes something more
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"This maybe 2022, but I found this really useful for today. Our team is getting smaller, we need to work differently and get more testing done earlier and from developers. Thanks Clare 🙏"
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Learn how to experiment with coaching with Clare Norman
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Quality Coaching: Level 1
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Quality Coaching: Level 1
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James Pearce shares a practical framework for testing AI products by making them more verifiable, measuring risk clearly, and learning safely from production.
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Engineering quality in an AI based product
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Engineering quality in an AI based product
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"Very useful talk as we will be in the coming months I think starting to be testing AI enabled chat features in our products. Thanks for doing it!
Is there any chance you can share the presentation as I can't see the slides on the video. Obviously, happ..."
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Preeti Gupta explains how teams can adopt AI in test automation while keeping human judgement, ownership, and quality at the centre.
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Growing with AI: Transforming test automation without losing the human edge
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Growing with AI: Transforming test automation without losing the human edge
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"Thanks so much for this call for insights. I had a skim read of the capabilities model and then compared it to our AI policy document that was written in 2024 and there is a massive gulf. So this is on my list to fix as a result of watch this brilliant..."
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Thanks for joining the TWiQ stage.
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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