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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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Thank you for letting us know about the edit limit bug with Google Docs during Leading With Quality.
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Thank you for letting us know about the edit limit bug with Google Docs during Leading With Quality.
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Thanks for spotting the issue with Google Docs. Great boundary testing right there!
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Loved your session at Leading With Quality. Thank you for sparking many a conversation around AI. 🤩
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Awesome session at Leading With Quality!
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👋 About Me:
I’m coming from: Berlin, Germany
My role is: Senior QA engineer
I’d love to meet others who are into: shift-left testing, quality coaching, and leading teams
I'm coming to TestBash ...
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About Me:
I’m coming from: Nicosia, Cyprus.
My role is: Automation Test Analyst.
I’d love to meet others who are into: AI, quality coaching.
I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as attendee.
I’ve been ...
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About Me:
I’m coming from: Bedford, UK
My role is: Quality Assurance Manager
I’d love to meet others who are into: Quality Coaching, Managing QA's, Influencing Quality, using metrics for good
I...
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Thank you for upgrading to a professional membership. Enjoy! Team MoT and the community are here to help.
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 45
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Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull have taken over the Leading With Quality conversations. Can you find them?
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Hey MoT network!
Calling all software testers, QA pros, and anyone using tools like Jira in your SDLC or project management-this one's for you! Of course, you're free to accept or refuse, but I'...
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Making friends at my very first TestBash 22 in Manchester. Good times. :-)I think Diana had this polaroid camera, the picture is pinned to the whiteboard in my office.
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Thanks for accepting my challenge for you know what. 🤭
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In quality we gather. Get a sense of what's happening in the MoTaverse with this week's MoTaverse Weekly.
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About Me:
I’m coming from: Coventry, UK
My role is: Sr.Test Engineer
I’d love to meet others who are into: exploratory testing, team building, shaping team culture.
I'm coming to TestBas...
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Suman came ‘home’ to Leeds to speak at Test Up North conference. She pointed out the push back when asking developers to think about testing
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We can no longer mention the T word
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We can no longer mention the T word
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That moment we had the last week in testing.
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That moment we had the last week in testing.
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Was a great session at MoT Leeds with Scott and I hosting a workshop, elevating your career by becoming a generalist. Good turnout and great discussions. Thanks to everyone who came.
But don’t as...
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Quality people, all aboard the TestBash train! - Ep 106
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Feel the MoTaverse energy as quality people prepare for TestBash, share accessibility stories, and swap career advice.
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Thanks for joining the stage during This Week In Testing. Great to hear from you!
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Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Testing.
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Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Testing.
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Always a pleasure to co-host This Week in Testing with you. 😃
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Hello there 👋🏻
I'm a QA Technical Lead from Liverpool.
It would be nice to meet other individual contributors who work across multiple teams. I've been doing it for a little while now but I'...
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Bug congrats on your article: Power pairing our people process: How we moved to a collaborative QA Engineer and QA Analyst model
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Pairing QA Engineers and Analysts isn't just a process tweak, it's a cultural shift that transforms siloed testing into a collaborative, balanced and business-aligned effort.
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See you at TestBash. 😃
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"Lovely stuff.
Small but mighty for the win! 💪🏻"
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Finally made it to my first MoT Meetup! Tony was a great host, and I really appreciated the talk on Load Testing led by Gui Padua. Nice to meet Shiva as well. It was a small but mighty group. Can't...
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I had the amazing opportunity to speak at the inaugural Test Up North conference in Leeds yesterday which was followed up by the MoT Leeds meetup.
Of course, I had to represent MoT London and Op...
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Testers: Stop Competing with AI. Start Pairing with It
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Unifying API and UI Testing with ReadyAPI and TestComplete to Maximize Product Quality
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Test Data Management Best Practices: 6 Tips for QA Teams
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September 2025 Product Update: Redesigned Variables, AI Requests in Collections, and Workflow Improvements
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Running Cypress Tests Across Regions Using GitHub Actions + WonderProxy
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Relative Locators in Selenium: Types and Examples
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I’m coming from: Edinburgh, UK
My role is: former Quality Coach and now free range tester (i.e. unemployed >_<)
I’d love to meet others who are into: Exploratory testing & quality coach...
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A practical, step-by-step guide to building an evaluation pipeline for a real-world AI application
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