Simon Tomes | Activities
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“When Amazon emails you saying your gifts won’t arrive until the 29th” - Idea from Rahul Parwal
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When Amazon emails you saying your gifts won’t arrive until the 29th
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When Amazon emails you saying your gifts won’t arrive until the 29th
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Leaving it late
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Are your ducks in a row?
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Are your ducks in a row?
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11.9.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Explore Galore! 30 Tips to Supercharge your Exploratory Testing Efforts
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Test Heuristics Cheat Sheet
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19.4.0 of MoT Software Testing Essentials Certificate
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Rahul Parwal - This Year in Review - 2025
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This Year in Review - 2025
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2025 didn’t happen to me. I showed up and built it.
Spoke across continents. Won Best Tutorial at EuroSTAR 2025. Got a book mention. Became an ambassador. Launched courses. Played where it matte...
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This Year in Review - 2025
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2025 didn’t happen to me. I showed up and built it.
Spoke across continents. Won Best Tutorial at EuroSTAR 2025. Got a book mention. Became an ambassador. Launched courses. Played where it matte...
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The "So What" Test
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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Emily O'Connor - 99 Second Community Journey
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Nadja Schulz - 99 Second Community Journey
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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Great to co-host the final TWiQ episode of 2025 with you. This Year in Quality was a lot of fun! 🎉
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What is TYiQ? Wrong answers only – Ep 117 (End-of-year special)
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Join the community for a playful look back at the year in quality, with quizzes, stats, and wrong answers only
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"So glad you were there, Preeti! Thanks for being part of This Year in Quality. 🎉"
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Today's episode of TYIQ was super fun. Something different - where it started with Christmas theme based Lovely names and throughout the episode gained so much knowledge about MoTaverse facts and...
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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This Year In Quality - Amazing Episode
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Today's episode of TYIQ was super fun. Something different - where it started with Christmas theme based Lovely names and throughout the episode gained so much knowledge about MoTaverse facts and...
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Thanks for introducing yourself via The Club.
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Moving Logic Out of Pods: Extending the Argo Workflows Controller
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Bug congrats on becoming STEC qualified. Great news! 🏆
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Bug congrats on your MoT Foundation Certificate in Test Automation. 🎉
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Bug congrats on becoming STEC qualified!
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Bug congrats on becoming STEC qualified!
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Bug congrats on becoming STEC qualified!
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Bug congrats on becoming STEC qualified!
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Momentic raises $15M to automate software testing
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I learned from This Year in Quality's quiz that I have the most badges in the MoTaverse (52) and have contributed the most terms to the Glossary (67), according to my profile. So, I'm officially am...
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It's official, I'm amazing
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It's official, I'm amazing
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Thank you Simon, for everything you do! It has been a great year! And also thanks for pushing me further and further, 2026 might just be the right year to take the big stage 💜
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Are we ready to go live?
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Ctrl+Alt+Defy, the white-hat hacker rewriting the cybersecurity rulebook
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What Is Exploratory Testing? PQIP: Four Simple Words To Level Up Your Testing Efforts
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What Is Exploratory Testing? PQIP: Four Simple Words To Level Up Your Testing Efforts
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Nadja Schulz - 99 Second Community Journey
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. I get real joy working with and supporting our wonderful MoTaverse community.
“Thanks for making me feel so confident about myself.” | “I'm so grateful for all you do in the MoTaverse community, I learn so much as a result!” | “A simple chat with Simon in person absolutely changed everything.” | “Simon is one of the best people that I've ever met to have conversations with. He's so grounded in his way of thinking and articulates his thoughts so well and his feelings and his knowledge about community and everything.”
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