Gary Hawkes | Comments
BearQ continuously tests your app, reducing test maintenance and uncovering gaps scripted tests can miss.
Whats the one thing that MoTaversians (I'm chuffed with that 😂) could do to bring extra power and influence to the community, especially in influencing outside the Quality Engineering space?
You mentioned bridging the gaps. What gap have you successfully bridged or just improved that has brought the most benefit to your role?
Really enjoyed that 👏
I think when you've been in long maintenance phases like I have, you do have to inject a "re-forming" phase where you choose to do things differently and shake the tree a bit for the tean. Because, it is a danger when you're in a long maintenance period that stagnation sets in and the guard slowly starts to drop as things become routine, or worse mundane.
I've never thought about it like this before, but there is nothing negative scrolling through the MoTaverse. So joyscrolling is definitely a thing! 😁
I struggle with CV's in general when recruiting especially when they're a skills tick sheet and I hate my own CV as a result, even when I've tried to change it to a new format. So if you're CV is a bland bullet point list of experience that spans say nearly 40 years like mine, what are the top tips to turn it into something that will make me and recruiters smile reading it?
As we all know, we can have our good days and bad days when testing. What snacks help you overcome those bad days and help with your mindset?
I agree that podcasting has become a very powerful medium to communicate. What are your do's and don'ts to producing a quality podcast?
When did you learn the art of appearing in front of Quality Engineers and then disappearing when they wanted to introduce you to developers?
When do feel a community can be classed as successful?
There are a number of tools like Axe as the tool we use to assess accessibility. Where do the tools fall short?
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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