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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. πŸŽ“ MoT-STEC qualified.

MoTaverse Team
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Monitor logs from Amazon EKS on Fargate with Datadog image
Monitor logs from Amazon EKS on Fargate with Datadog
Debug Docker Builds with Visual Studio Code image
Debug Docker Builds with Visual Studio Code
Confluent: The Real-Time Backbone for Agentic Systems image
Confluent: The Real-Time Backbone for Agentic Systems
September 2025 in Auth0: Advanced Security Controls and Auth0 for AI Agents image
September 2025 in Auth0: Advanced Security Controls and Auth0 for AI Agents
From Lakehouse to Digital Mind: Architecting a Multi-Agent AI Ecosystem on Databricks image
From Lakehouse to Digital Mind: Architecting a Multi-Agent AI Ecosystem on Databricks
Copilot Instructions Example. Provide top-level page object with Copilot instructions for faster test writing. image
Copilot Instructions Example. Provide top-level page object with Copilot instructions for faster test writing.
10 Tips for Writing Playwright Tests with Cursor image
10 Tips for Writing Playwright Tests with Cursor
Keep Stirring the Pot: Lessons from Julie & Julia image
Keep Stirring the Pot: Lessons from Julie & Julia
Rapid test prototyping with MCP and AI image
Rapid test prototyping with MCP and AI
A Lack of Inspiration – Ideas for Community Sessions: Lean Coffee image
A Lack of Inspiration – Ideas for Community Sessions: Lean Coffee
The Uncanny Valley of AI Testers image
The Uncanny Valley of AI Testers
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
The greatest skill of a quality engineer! image
The greatest skill of a quality engineer!
πŸ’‘Quality Insight: How to Ignite Quality Conversations image
πŸ’‘Quality Insight: How to Ignite Quality Conversations
QR Podcast – Fiona Charles image
QR Podcast – Fiona Charles
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Conferences are incomplete without selfies image
Selfie time with awesome folks
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
commented on:
MoTaCon 2025 - Memories image
Most conferences end when you walk out the door. hashtag#MoTaCon doesn’t. It lingers. - In the conversations that turn into ideas. - In the ideas that turn into experiments. - In the people w...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Eamon Droko for:
Thanks for reintroducing yourself on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025. Very glad more folks will get to online-meet... image
Thanks for reintroducing yourself on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025. Very glad more folks will get to online-meet you. πŸ˜ƒ My first intro thread where I can say that I have a QA job πŸ˜† Heck yeah!Β 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Aiman B T Syed for:
Thanks for reintroducing yourself on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025. Very glad more folks will get to online-meet... image
Thanks for reintroducing yourself on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025. Very glad more folks will get to online-meet you. πŸ˜ƒ
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Clare Norman for:
Thanks for re-introducing yourself on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025. Very glad more folks will get to online-mee... image
Thanks for re-introducing yourself on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025. Very glad more folks will get to online-meet you. πŸ˜ƒ
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Judy Mosley for:
Thanks for introducing yourself on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025. Very glad more folks will get to online-meet y... image
Thanks for introducing yourself on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025. Very glad more folks will get to online-meet you. πŸ˜ƒ
Joanna Negler - The art of keeping going image
Learn how leading with quality is about continuous learning, experimentation, and care that sustains teams over time.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Charlotte Hayes for:
Double bug congrats on earning your MoT Intermediate and Advanced Certificate in Test Automation. Amazing work! πŸ† image
Double bug congrats on earning your MoT Intermediate and Advanced Certificate in Test Automation. Amazing work! πŸ†
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ricardo PlΓ‘cido for:
Solid work and bug congrats for earning your MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation. πŸ† image
Solid work and bug congrats for earning your MoT Advanced Certificate in Test Automation. πŸ†
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Zidane Amaral for:
Bug congrats on becoming STEC qualified! Great news. πŸŽ‰ image
Bug congrats on becoming STEC qualified! Great news. πŸŽ‰
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Rahul Parwal for:
Thank you for genuinely connecting with attendees and taking thoughtful notes while supporting everyone in the Corn E... image
Thank you for genuinely connecting with attendees and taking thoughtful notes while supporting everyone in the Corn Exchange during MoTaCon. We appreciate your dedication and the valuable role you played as an essential member of the event team.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Jesper Ottosen for:
Thanks for sharing the idea to add STEC certificates everywhere. Great idea!Β  image
Thanks for sharing the idea to add STEC certificates everywhere. Great idea!Β 
Surprised, Shocked, Splendid Work - Mark's visiting card image
The expression says it all when we saw Mark's creative visiting card.
πŸ‘‹ Introductions Thread – Q4 2025 image
πŸ‘‹ Introductions Thread – Q4 2025
Go Gary Go!  image
Go Gary Go!
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Go Gary Go!  image
01/10/25, Brighton. It's 14:07 on Day 1 of MoTaCon. Everyone's on their lunch break in the Corn Exchange so the Brighton Dome concert hall is mostly empty and calm. And boy oh boy is it abou...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Aj Wilson for:
Nice one for amplifying Judy with your "Judy loves Questions"Β meme. πŸ˜ƒ image
Nice one for amplifying Judy with your "Judy loves Questions"Β meme. πŸ˜ƒ
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Lauren Lassey for:
Glad to see you comment and enjoy Callum and Kat's cosmic conversation: The possibilities of Quality Coaching. image
Glad to see you comment and enjoy Callum and Kat's cosmic conversation: The possibilities of Quality Coaching.
Seeing yourself through someone else's eyes image
Memes communicate. This meme, made by AJ Wilson, made me laugh and helped me to understand how others might view my work. It was a pleasant surprise to see this in the MoTaverse Slack channel. And,...
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