Simon Tomes
Community Lead at Ministry of Testing
he/him
I am Open to Write, Teach, Speak, Mentor, CV Reviews, Podcasting, Meet at MoTaCon 2026, Review Conference Proposals
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
Certificates
Awarded for:
Passing the exam with a score of 100%
Activity
earned:
Nano Banana 2: Combining Pro capabilities with lightning-fast speed
thanked contributors on:
"A Pro MoT membership gives me curated access to a wealth of knowledge and insights from leaders in our industry. It offers valuable learning paths, which keep me from being overwhelmed." - Cassan...
earned:
The benefits of a Professional Membership in Cassandra's words
awarded Diana Dromey for:
The benefits of a Professional Membership in Cassandra's words
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
Ady Stokes absolutely nails a reason why whole team responsibility matters, even for those that are skeptical of the reality of making it happen and the use of it as a term.
"Probably the most i...
Discovered a new term today, thanks to Lewis Prescott: Continuous Performance Testing.
"Performance testing kind of still follows that waterfall nature because it takes a long time to set up the...
Louise would love to hear from fellow quality leaders.
What struggles do you face when advocating for quality beyond developers?
What have you tried that's helped?
How do you convince product ...
In conversation with Simon Tomes as part of his Call for Insights series, he put me on the spot with this question.
So, Ady, I was thinking for our listeners, a final thought from you is what w...
I heard this on a recent Call for Insights (with Simon Tomes and Louise Woodhams), and it made me chuckle.
It's in reference to making attempts to shifting-left, but not really feeling the resul...
Of course, when Simon and Jesper were talking about friction in a recent Call for Insights, my mind went straight to community.
Partly this is because I've long been saying that community is opt...
Remember these?
One year on.
Before ✨ stars ✨ every ✨ day!
Louise Woodhams shares why many testers struggle to ask for help.
Cut through the AI hype, swap real guardrail stories, and laugh at the rainbow-vomit moments along the way.
