Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
Community Lead
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Simon is the Community Lead at Ministry of Testing and his pronouns are he/him. He has a passion for all things testing with a career in various testing and tech roles since 2003. He particularly enjoys promoting and sharing the value of exploratory testing, leadership, collaboration, creativity and community.

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'Open to Work' September 2024
We're polling the community to support the testing, QA and quality engineering jobs market.
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This Week in Testing Episode 58 - 06 September, 2024
Debrief the week in testing; topics included public speaking, note-taking strategies, collaboration in testing and more!
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The Testing Planet News at TestBash
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Where can I practice testing? Software testing news – Issue 487 image
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Where can I practice testing? Software testing news – Issue 487
Discover a treasure trove of places to practice testing and many ways to participate in the testing, QA and quality engineering community. Read it all in this week's software testing news.
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A man holds a large duck toy. Their knees are bent and their face looks concerned, suggesting that the duck is heavy.
Heavy duck
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
A duck winner at the software testing conference, TestBash Brighton 2024. That duck looks heavy! But is it?
A fun photo shoot during a live workshop/webinar. There are nine webcam windows, each with a person inside. Everyone is pulling a different facial expression.
A room full of test exchanges
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
A group of us hung out online during October 2024's Test Exchange. We got to know each other through interesting chit-chats. A lovely bun...
The bottom two-thirds of a person holding a white box full of small toy ducks.
Box of ducks
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
Rosie Sherry (CEO and founder of Ministry of Testing) delivered a box of ducks for all ambassadors to hide at TestBash Brighton 2024. Why...
The boot of a large car. There is a big fluffy duck toy poking its head out next to three large plastic containers with stationary in them. There are other event items packed into the boot space. It's crammed tight.
Quack me out of here!
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
The not-so-glamorous side of hosting a software testing conference, like TestBash Brighton 2024, is the load-in! It's 6 AM on day one and...

Memes

A meme with two frames. The top frame is a character holding their arms out to a yellow balloon with "memes" written on it. The bottom frame has the same character looking backwards at another character with "memories" written on it. The yellow balloon with "memes" remains in view but is smaller in size than the previous frame's balloon.
memes yet now there's memories
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
A venn diagram with three circles. Circle one text "legendary hosting skills". Circle two "infectious enthusiasm". Circle three "People amplifier". The three circles interlock. Text in the centre where all three circles converge: Gwen Diagram.
A Gwen Diagram
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
A still from the film Star Wars Episode 4. An old man with a white beard and brown cloak called Obi-Wan Kenobi holds his hand out and looks very serious. There are two robot characters behind him as they sit on a transport speeder. Text: These aren't the bugs you were looking for
These aren't the bugs you were looking for
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
A star certificate meme. Text: Congratulations Frustrated app users for World Testers Day You did it! 09/09/20YY date Testing Professionals signed. There is a smiley star certificate that looks like it's a certificate from a children's party or school.
Congratulations app users, you did it!
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
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