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Simon Tomes
Community Lead at MoTaverse
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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. š MoT-STEC qualified.
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We wrapped up our first year of Ambassadoring, reflected on it, explored some ideas on how we can improve it.
As time came to the end, I was saying thank you and wasn't sure how to say goodbye,...
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Thanks for being an awesome human.(Prompted by some of the things you shared during the soon to arrive Into The MoTaverse podcast episode)Ā
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2025 was a year on hard mode, but I also found some amazing things that brought me energy and inspiration š. This year I want to do more of those.
I get energy from good challenges, last year I st...
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In 2026 I aspire to do more of the things that give me energy, inspiration and happiness
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In 2026 I aspire to do more of the things that give me energy, inspiration and happiness
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From Hours to Minutes: How Wahed Revolutionized Mobile App Testing with Maestro
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Shifting Mobile Automation: Native to Flutter with Maestro (Spoiler: Itās Awesome!)
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Releasing apps (fast) at scale: the QuintoAndar way
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Meetups are now Chapters
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How to Keep Testing When Dependent Systems Arenāt Available
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Meetups are now Chapters
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AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage
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Using AI to help teams shift testing left
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Three basic truths about planning
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Sloppy Hiring Practices
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Stop vibe coding before you delete your repo
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Time to automate the boring stuff
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Doist Team Shares Lessons From Maestro-Based UI Test Orchestration
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Enhance Your App with Agent Skills: A Practical Guide
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Want Better Company-Wide Collaboration? It Starts with Communication.
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I want to finish writing and publishing my third testing book: Staff-Level Testing Roles.
You heard about the Manager's Path and about the Staff Engineers Path - let's look into the staff level te...
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Publish my next book
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Publish my next book
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The single most important lesson for someone new to quality engineering
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The single most important lesson for someone new to quality engineering
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"This reminds me of the some of the key principles explored in Esther Derby's book, '7 Rules for Positive, Productive Change: Micro Shifts, Macro Results.'"
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Leading with a map of influence
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Agentic QE: From AI Assistant to AI Workforce
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A paradigm shift from using AI as a coding assistant to directing AI agents as an intelligent workforce
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Relationships and social capital as a core driver for leadership
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Community Chatter, help us tag people, drop a comment if you spot yourself or someone you know in this photo.
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Bug congrats on landing a new role! Great news. š
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