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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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Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Jesse Berkeley for:
Thank you for letting us know about the edit limit bug with Google Docs during Leading With Quality.  image
Thank you for letting us know about the edit limit bug with Google Docs during Leading With Quality. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Jessica Bane for:
Thank you for letting us know about the edit limit bug with Google Docs during Leading With Quality.  image
Thank you for letting us know about the edit limit bug with Google Docs during Leading With Quality. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Mitch Griffiths for:
Thanks for spotting the issue with Google Docs. Great boundary testing right there!  image
Thanks for spotting the issue with Google Docs. Great boundary testing right there! 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ash Coleman Hynie for:
Loved your session at Leading With Quality. Thank you for sparking many a conversation around AI. 🤩 image
Loved your session at Leading With Quality. Thank you for sparking many a conversation around AI. 🤩
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Nicola Sedgwick for:
Awesome session at Leading With Quality! image
Awesome session at Leading With Quality!
Hello, my name is Assel Ibragimova image
👋 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 ...
Hello, my name is Michalis Perikleous image
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 ...
Hello, my name is Dalbir Sehmbi image
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...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Caroline Birch for:
Thank you for upgrading to a professional membership. Enjoy! Team MoT and the community are here to help.  image
Thank you for upgrading to a professional membership. Enjoy! Team MoT and the community are here to help. 
Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 45 image
Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 45
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 45 image
Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull have taken over the Leading With Quality conversations. Can you find them?
My dream, your view. image
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'...
Diana, Petros & Christian at TestBash 2022 image
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.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Mariem SAFI for:
Thanks for accepting my challenge for you know what. 🤭 image
Thanks for accepting my challenge for you know what. 🤭
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Meet quality people image
In quality we gather. Get a sense of what's happening in the MoTaverse with this week's MoTaverse Weekly.
Hello my name is Jesse Berkeley image
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...
Suman shines at Test Up North image
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
We can no longer mention the T word image
We can no longer mention the T word
We can no longer mention the T word image
We can no longer mention the T word
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
We can no longer mention the T word image
That moment we had the last week in testing.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
We can no longer mention the T word image
That moment we had the last week in testing.
Great Scott it’s MoT Leeds time!  image
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...
Quality people, all aboard the TestBash train! - Ep 106 image
Quality people, all aboard the TestBash train! - Ep 106
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Quality people, all aboard the TestBash train! - Ep 106 image
Feel the MoTaverse energy as quality people prepare for TestBash, share accessibility stories, and swap career advice.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Maithilee Chunduri for:
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week In Testing. Great to hear from you!  image
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week In Testing. Great to hear from you! 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ady Stokes for:
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Testing.  image
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Testing. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Iziren John Chima for:
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Testing.  image
Thanks for joining the stage during This Week in Testing. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ben Dowen for:
Always a pleasure to co-host This Week in Testing with you. 😃 image
Always a pleasure to co-host This Week in Testing with you. 😃
Hello, my name is Adam Foy image
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'...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Matthew Whitaker for:
Bug congrats on your article: Power pairing our people process: How we moved to a collaborative QA Engineer and QA An... image
Bug congrats on your article: Power pairing our people process: How we moved to a collaborative QA Engineer and QA Analyst model 
Power pairing our people process: How we moved to a collaborative QA Engineer and QA Analyst model image
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.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Al Lines for:
See you at TestBash. 😃 image
See you at TestBash. 😃
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
commented on:
Lovely stuff. 

Small but mighty for the win! 💪🏻 image
"Lovely stuff. Small but mighty for the win! 💪🏻"
My First Meetup! image
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...
Speaking at Test Up North #1 & First MoT meetup in Leeds! image
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...
Testers: Stop Competing with AI. Start Pairing with It image
Testers: Stop Competing with AI. Start Pairing with It
Unifying API and UI Testing with ReadyAPI and TestComplete to Maximize Product Quality image
Unifying API and UI Testing with ReadyAPI and TestComplete to Maximize Product Quality
Test Data Management Best Practices: 6 Tips for QA Teams image
Test Data Management Best Practices: 6 Tips for QA Teams
September 2025 Product Update: Redesigned Variables, AI Requests in Collections, and Workflow Improvements image
September 2025 Product Update: Redesigned Variables, AI Requests in Collections, and Workflow Improvements
Running Cypress Tests Across Regions Using GitHub Actions + WonderProxy image
Running Cypress Tests Across Regions Using GitHub Actions + WonderProxy
Relative Locators in Selenium: Types and Examples image
Relative Locators in Selenium: Types and Examples
Hello, my name is Rich image
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...
A practical, step-by-step guide to building an evaluation pipeline for a real-world AI application image
A practical, step-by-step guide to building an evaluation pipeline for a real-world AI application
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