Simon Tomes
Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
he/him
I am Open to Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Write, Teach, Speak, Mentor, Podcasting
Hello, I'm Simon. Since 2003 I've had various roles in testing, tech leadership and coaching. I believe in the power of collaboration, creativity and community. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified.
Achievements
Interests
advocacy
all-things-community
asking-questions
bug
bugs
bugs-in-the-wild
charters
coaching
coaching-testers
community
conferences
conference-speaking
continuous-learning
design
diversity
drumming
events
experimentation
exploratory-testing
heuristics
leadership
memes
mentoring
mot-stec
music
oracles
podcasting
process-improvement
product-development
product-management
public-speaking
quality-strategy
space-duck
space-seagull
systems-thinking
team-enablement
testbash
testbash-brighton
testing
writing
Contributions
02/10/25, Brighton.
There's a fair bit of running around when you're part of a conference event team. Curious to hear Joep's talk whilst also moving on to my next task I remember grabbing this ...
Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull have taken over the MoTaCon takeover. Is that a reverse takeover? 🤔
Can you find them?
In quality we gathered
