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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.

MoTaverse Team
Chapter Lead
Repping MoT at A11y North image
Discussing all the accessibility content on the Ministry of Testing at A11y North 9th meet-up
Can't escape the Bug image
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...
One with the awesome Carlos Kidman image
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 ...
One with Boris Borissov at the Coffee Area image
Met with Boris Borissov at the Coffee Area Small chat, good discussion, great feedback, postive vibes.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
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Sounds like it's gonna be a good one. Enjoy!  image
"Sounds like it's gonna be a good one. Enjoy! "
Summer break is over - MoT Berlin meetups are back! image
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,...
Quality revelations: From SLO to better listening - Ep 108 image
Quality revelations: From SLO to better listening - Ep 108
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Quality revelations: From SLO to better listening - Ep 108 image
Hear how the community is discovering new ways to think about quality through SLOs, accessibility, and better listening.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Judy Mosley for:
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear more about your recent post: 💡Quality Insight... image
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
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ben Dowen for:
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear about SLO and SLI, via Charity's blog post.   image
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear about SLO and SLI, via Charity's blog post.  
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Eamon Droko for:
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear about your ongoing community conduit efforts.  image
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear about your ongoing community conduit efforts. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ady Stokes for:
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear about course badge tips and SQEC. 🎉 image
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Quality. Great to hear about course badge tips and SQEC. 🎉
Testin' the time limit image
Testin' the time limit
Testin' the time limit image
Testin' the time limit
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
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Testin' the time limit image
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...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Testin' the time limit image
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...
SLOs Are The API For Your Engineering Team image
SLOs Are The API For Your Engineering Team
I like to play cards & MoT loves to help me do that image
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
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Nadja Schulz for:
Thanks for letting us know about the multiple TWiQ event reminders. As suggested, we'll see if it's possible to clone... image
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. 🫠
Showing Tap Indicators on iOS Screen Recording image
Showing Tap Indicators on iOS Screen Recording
Introducing BrowserStack’s Test Failure Analysis Agent: Debug Failures 95% Faster image
Introducing BrowserStack’s Test Failure Analysis Agent: Debug Failures 95% Faster
Agentic QA as a Quality Operating Model image
Agentic QA as a Quality Operating Model
AI-First API Design: From Prompt to Production image
AI-First API Design: From Prompt to Production
Top 10 Jira Testing Tools for QA Teams image
Top 10 Jira Testing Tools for QA Teams
Bridging the Gap Between Reliable APIs and Unpredictable AI  image
Bridging the Gap Between Reliable APIs and Unpredictable AI
On Unit / Integration / Regression Tests and Terminology image
On Unit / Integration / Regression Tests and Terminology
Most teams engineer products better than they engineer teams image
Most teams engineer products better than they engineer teams
The beauty of constraints image
The beauty of constraints
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Engineering velocity on steroids image
Engineering velocity on steroids
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Great managers meet uncertainty with curiosity and confidence image
Great managers meet uncertainty with curiosity and confidence
The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why? image
The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?
Planit Global Quality Index Report 2025/26 image
Planit Global Quality Index Report 2025/26
Thoughts from a woman in tech on Dunelm’s Women In Tech Week image
Thoughts from a woman in tech on Dunelm’s Women In Tech Week
Monitor logs from Amazon EKS on Fargate with Datadog image
Monitor logs from Amazon EKS on Fargate with Datadog
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