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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. 🎓 MoT-STEC qualified.
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Discussing all the accessibility content on the Ministry of Testing at A11y North 9th meet-up
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I spent a week in beautiful Wales with the family.
But I couldn't keep Bug off my mind.
It's been an intense year and this was a much needed de-compression. I was holding it together, and now...
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My AI in Testing journey started with Carlos Kidman's AMA session 2 years back.
From there to giving a workshop on Prompting at MoTaCon, where Carlos was also giving a session, was a big moment ...
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Met with Boris Borissov at the Coffee Area
Small chat, good discussion, great feedback, postive vibes.
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"Sounds like it's gonna be a good one. Enjoy! "
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We are back! Our summer break is finally over, the suitcases are heavy with TestBash swag (MoTaCon swag, actually), and we can't wait to see you all again!🎤 Quality TalksAsh Hynie, Ashutosh Mishra,...
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Quality revelations: From SLO to better listening - Ep 108
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Hear how the community is discovering new ways to think about quality through SLOs, accessibility, and better listening.
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Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear more about your recent post: 💡Quality Insight: How to Ignite Quality Conversations
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Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear about SLO and SLI, via Charity's blog post. Â
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Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear about your ongoing community conduit efforts.Â
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Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear about course badge tips and SQEC. 🎉
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Testin' the time limit
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Testin' the time limit
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17/10/25, across the globe, a live episode of This Week in Quality.
We must take all opportunities to boundary test. 😃
Thanks to everyone who showed up today to help us continue our producti...
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17/10/25, across the globe, a live episode of This Week in Quality.
We must take all opportunities to boundary test. 😃
Thanks to everyone who showed up today to help us continue our producti...
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SLOs Are The API For Your Engineering Team
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Full range of card decks for me to try, explore, play, learn, experiment, collaborate, and gamestorm with testers in India and around the world.
Thank you, Rosie
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Thanks for letting us know about the multiple TWiQ event reminders. As suggested, we'll see if it's possible to clone the host and run four of the same events at the same time. ðŸ«
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Showing Tap Indicators on iOS Screen Recording
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Introducing BrowserStack’s Test Failure Analysis Agent: Debug Failures 95% Faster
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Agentic QA as a Quality Operating Model
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AI-First API Design: From Prompt to Production
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Top 10 Jira Testing Tools for QA Teams
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Bridging the Gap Between Reliable APIs and Unpredictable AI
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On Unit / Integration / Regression Tests and Terminology
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Most teams engineer products better than they engineer teams
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The beauty of constraints
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Engineering velocity on steroids
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Great managers meet uncertainty with curiosity and confidence
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The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?
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Planit Global Quality Index Report 2025/26
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Thoughts from a woman in tech on Dunelm’s Women In Tech Week
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Monitor logs from Amazon EKS on Fargate with Datadog
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