Simon Tomes | Activities
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Hanisha shares an essential reason to write and keep writing.
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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AI's impact on quality generalists vs quality specialists
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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Can testing cope with the speed of development?
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Advocacy beyond developers
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Advocacy beyond developers
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How do we convince product and project people about the importance of testing?
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Advocacy beyond developers
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Advocacy beyond developers
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One more step toward 2026 goals
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I'm an Ambassador now
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I'm an Ambassador now
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I'm an Ambassador now
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Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
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Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
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Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
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Thanks for joining the stage and sharing with the TWiQ audience.
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Thank you for co-hosting TWiQ. I appreciate you encouraging good conversations, reflections and insights.
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I featured your Production 404 story on the MoT homepage.
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"🙈 Oof, I can only imagine how awkward that was.
Yet I'm hopeful your lesson also leads to folks considering how staging and production environments are set up. As you say, at the very least, for us to find out how they might be connected."
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Once I was doing what I do best and exploring a product and I decided to see what happens when I have a lot of concurrent users running on the system. So I started performing this test in a stagin...
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Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident
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Production 404 - Taking down Production by Accident
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Woohay! Congrats on co-hosting This Week in Quality. You were ace! 🏆
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Thanks for sharing feedback about the "thank" and "mark as read/watch" features.
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Explore the parallels between the lessons Stephen learnt in the RAF and his current work.
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Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains
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Quality in the RAF and what it taught me about testing - Discipline, risk and assurance across domains
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RCA for the Prod bug on Friday Evening has its vibe
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When RCA for Prod bug is asked on Friday Evening it has its own vibe 😀
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When RCA for Prod bug is asked on Friday Evening it has its own vibe 😀
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This Week in Quality
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
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How do we convince product and project people about the importance of testing?
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Advocacy beyond developers
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11.9.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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More than ever, we need human to human connection
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Great conversation with Simon
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Always good talking with you, Ady. Thanks for our call for insights. 🤩
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I answered Simon's call for insights and had a great conversation with him all about my goals for 2026, and how I want to make thinking in testing visible, intentional, and teachable. I'm looking f...
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Great conversation with Simon
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Great conversation with Simon
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"Awesome to see what can be done to give someone confidence. Thanks for sharing, Ady."
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I had a personal message thanking me for the gap analysis. The person had thought they were not good enough to apply for a role titled 'Quality Engineer'. But after taking the gap analysis, they fo...
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Feedback for the tester to Quality Engineer gap analysis
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Feedback for the tester to Quality Engineer gap analysis
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Great conversation with Simon
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I answered Simon's call for insights and had a great conversation with him all about my goals for 2026, and how I want to make thinking in testing visible, intentional, and teachable. I'm looking f...
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. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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