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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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We’re grateful you joined the stage for This Week in Quality and shared your MoTaCon reflections with the community.
awarded Demi Van Malcot for:
Hooray! Great to co-host the first ever This Week in Quality with you! Bug congrats. 🏆
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Thank you for inviting me to record a 99s talk to be played during MoTacon2025.It was great seeing myself in there ^^
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Learn how to build security into your day-to-day testing!
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"Great to read your update. Thanks for sharing.
Wonderful learnings.
Keep 'em coming. "
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Six weeks into my role as Test and Quality Assurance Manager at a pet insurance company, and I'm still processing the magnitude of the culture shift I've experienced.
**The Change:**
I've moved...
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Nice one for sharing a kind comment on Judy Mosley's article: Wide open spaces: A thought worker's guide to asking good questions.
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"I like the term "click to capture".
I'm very much appreciating all the photo memories. "
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Must click to capture Brighton Dome where people come from all over world to attend MoT conference. Great opportunity to meet and know each other with testing passion and mindset
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It was nice to see you again Dalbir and Madhuri at workshop.
We had a conversation and talks at the workshop itself. In other words, we implemented and executed what the workshop title says "The M...
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It was nice to meet you and had a talk at MotaCon 2025 !!
awarded Louise Woodhams for:
Bug congrats for stepping onto the 99 Second Talks stage at MoTaCon. You did great! I appreciate how much of a personal achievement it was to do that. The MoTaverse has got your back and we welcome more of your contributions.
awarded Jenna Charlton for:
Thank you for being part of the MoTaCon 2025 Event Team. 🏆I love how you took hold of the swag shop, owned it and made sure folks were looked after.I imagine there are lots of happy community members enjoying their swag right now!
awarded Shrushrita Sharma for:
Thank you for upgrading to a Professional Membership. We hope you enjoy exploring everything on offer.Team MoT and the community are here to help.
awarded Christine Pinto for:
Well, what can I say Christine?! Thanks for being a big part of the MoTaCon experience.Thank you for helping folks get their swag and ensuring everyone felt welcome throughout the two days.High pressure too, given you were on the star stamp sheet.Grateful for the multitude of things you did as part of the MoTaCon 2025 Event Team. 🏆
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I met Christine pinto at test bash!
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Always good to take a pic with the awesome Christine Pinto
awarded Emma Keaveny for:
Thank you, Emma, for being an outstanding volunteer at MoTaCon.Your composure during the busy Day 1 check-in was spot on. You jumped in and handled it with dedication.I especially appreciated how you made sure our workshop facilitators felt fully supported.Thanks for being part of the MoTaCon 2025 Event Team. 🏆
awarded Richard Adams for:
It's wonderful to hear that you found MoTaCon so valuable. Thank you for sharing your experience on LinkedIn. 🤩
awarded Maithilee Chunduri for:
Thanks for offering to beta test MoT site changes.
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Focus on people, storytelling, and shared purpose can help you strengthen your quality culture and inspire lasting change as a leader
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Bug congrats on your "MoT Streak" badge! Thanks for logging in to MoT five days in a row. 🏆
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I went down memory lane.
This is me and Danny Dainton at TestBash 2015. (I think)
It's been 10 years, my friend!
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This workshop was such a joy to run, great engaged group of attendees, all keen to work together to improve their metrics game.
If you see yourself or someone you know, please tag!
Thank you to...
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I wasn't sure what to expect from the MoTaCon craft table, but it was a hit!
Drop a comment with the names of people in this video. :)
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"Brilliant shot. Fascinating to see the workshop space before it was a full house.
Kudos to Jessica and Emma for ensuring they had that room ready to rock. "
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This was just before the wonderful Jessica and Emma opened the doors for my workshop "We're not Spotify" last week at Motacon. It ended up being such a great workshop!
Thanks again for everybody ...
awarded Aaron Pinto for:
Thank you sharing such positive feedback about MoTaCon. We're thrilled that you connected with so many inspiring people and deepened your understanding of quality.
awarded Aaron Pinto for:
Thanks for taking on the challenge of sharing MoTaCon feedback in 99 words or less. Done in 99 words. Epic! 🎉
awarded Jonathan Cole for:
We appreciate you taking the time to share valuable feedback about MoTaCon. Thank you.
awarded Jonathan Cole for:
Thanks for choosing TestBash MoTaCon. Glad to hear you had an enjoyable experience.
awarded Meg S for:
Thanks for choosing TestBash MoTaCon. We hope you had an enjoyable experience.
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"Bug causing trouble again, eh! 😃"
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Searching for bugs this morning and happened to catch one photobombing
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"Excellent, thanks for posting. Good to see it on your MoT profile, via the Observatory. 🔭"
awarded Maithilee Chunduri for:
Thanks for sharing feedback about the MoT Events page. Much appreciated.
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This must be the most Brighton thing I’ve seen all week.
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They just kept turning up!
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02/10/25.
It's Thursday. The time is 16:03. It's Day 2 of MoTaCon. And I've never seen the 99-Second Talks queue grow so quickly. And even after this photo more people turned up.
Such is the...
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So cool you took on the challenge of sharing MoTaCon feedback in 99 words or less. 😃
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Thanks for taking the time to share feedback about MoTaCon. It's much appreciated.
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Chatbot Testing with SBTM and Mike Talks
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"Nice one, Ibrahim. A good photo from the archive.
I spot the old MoT ninja logo lanyards and Postman's table set up. "
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My second TestBash but remembering my 1st TestBash as it was yesterday
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"This is a brilliant photo! 😃"
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Found bug at ̷T̷e̷s̷t̷B̷a̷s̷h̷ MoTaCon
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"Nice one, Borislav. Glad you enjoyed the first day. We hope day two was also a success for you.
And what a lovely coaster. 😃"
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Great day at the TestBash/ MOTaverse conference, meeting great enthusiastic people, gathering knowledge on different topics. Time to recharge for tomorrow 😎
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"More questions: A sign of a quality professional who cares.
Nice one, Ezra.
Let us know how you get on with the course. Feel free to post updates as MoTaverse memories."
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