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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. ๐ MoT-STEC qualified.
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I Vibe Coded an App and Learnt Exactly What I Thought I Would
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Unintended consequences of prompt framing
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Fixing Claude Code's amnesia
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Why training alone is never the solution to ableist behavior
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OpenAI, ARIA, and SEO: Making the Web Worse
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Atlas Ableism
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Mobile Ticketing Accessibility: Buying Haunted House Tickets with a Screen Reader
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"Great to see this, Aditya. Glad you enjoyed it!
And kudos to Rahul for introducing you to it. "
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B A D U X W O R L D C U P
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Nice one for recommending The Testing Planet newspaper to Aditya Saxena. Cool to see their photo memory.ย
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Some mornings start with coffee โ, but today mine began with a copy of โThe Testing Planet โ October Editionโ by the Ministry of Testingโand it turned out to be one of the most refreshing reads Iโv...
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A Lack of Inspiration โ Ideas for Community Sessions: Board Games
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Great to see your public collection of videos to watch together with your team. Cool idea. Enjoy!ย
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Transform your teamโs delivery by learning how small, consistent improvements in testing, automation, and collaboration can make everything better for both your team and users
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Change is inevitable, we explore how it is happening
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Got this businesscard from Mark Benson at TestBash, truly living up to his Creative Technologist label. Complete with five test cases to figure out and a hidden easter egg that can only found after...
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What happened to your influence and impact after transitioning to a new role?
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What happened to your influence and impact after transitioning to a new role?
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30/09/25, Brighton, UK.
Barry Ehigiator creates an immersive experience for the Leading With Quality participants.
At this points folks were tasked with reflecting on their experience of tr...
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Avoid disappointment with your LLM outputs.
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"Paul's stories were brilliant! "
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Paul from WonderProxy had Bugs everywhere in stitches.
Thanks for the laughs.
And be sure to check how this Memory looks from your part of the world - https://wonderproxy.com/
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Veerle and Gwen hosting at MoTaCon, they are a great duo!
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Amazing photo.
Thanks to our MoTographer, Ollie Denton, for all the photos.
Visit Ollie over over at https://dentonmedia.co.uk/
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This was a nice surprise - thank you team MoT ๐๐ป
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"It was a delight to see this for reals!
Thanks for doing it and sharing here, Ady. ๐คฉ "
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We will STEC you
(Ask to stomp stomp clap)
Buddy your a brand new tester look to find your way in the testing universe
Youโve knowledge to find, expand your mind.
You need to find the pat...
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"Great point on metrics from Charlotte:
"How did bugs have people raised? How many test cases they've written? That doesn't give a metric of quality. You could write 100 test cases but they could all be testing pretty much the same thing. Or you could..."
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"Nice one, Jesse.
What were some of your key takeaways that folks might find helpful? "
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Glad to be in this learning opportunity around Contract Testing with Marie Cruz and Lewis Prescott.
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"Nice work, Christine. No doubt the audience enjoyed what you had to share.
Makes me wonder how we can get more of those quality and developer people in Bulgaria into the MoTaverse. ๐ค"
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I never knew how many companies are in Bulgaria and how diverse and interesting the Quality and Developer scene is.
My talk was all about quality coaching and I received good questions and feedbac...
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"Love to see all the chit-chats that happen during MoTaCon. Thanks for sharing.
Were there any key takeaways/ideas you could share from the conversation?"
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Fantastic chat with Scott at lunch around testing in secure environments
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"You got this, Ramanan. ๐ช๐ป"
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Itโs been an incredible journey of learning, collaboration, and connecting with passionate testers worldwide. ๐
Huge thanks to the amazing MoT team, Simon Tomes, Rosie Sherry, and Sarah Deery for ...
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You Cannot Outsource Understanding
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Earned My MoT Community Certificate ๐
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Itโs been an incredible journey of learning, collaboration, and connecting with passionate testers worldwide. ๐
Huge thanks to the amazing MoT team, Simon Tomes, Rosie Sherry, and Sarah Deery for ...
Test complex APIs and microservices smarterโwith confidence.
Better than a generic video, see YOUR test, live, ready to show you what matters most: quality at scale.
With servers in >250 cities around the world, check your site for localization problems, broken GDPR banners, etc.
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