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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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Agent Factory: Top 5 agent observability best practices for reliable AI
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Enabling Kotlin incremental compilation on Buck2
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Vibe Shift? Senior Developers Ship nearly 2.5x more AI Code than Junior Counterparts
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How to Build a Python MCP Server to Consult a Knowledge Base
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The TORCH technique for exploratory testing
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Shine a light. The TORCH technique for exploratory testing helps quality professionals bring structure and freedom to their exploratory testing sessions.
So what?
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Bug congrats on blasting past 50 community stars! 🤩Thanks for expanding the MoTaverse, one star at a time.
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"Yes, yes, and yes to 50 yeses!
Bug congrats, Mariem. 🎉
You 100% deserve to celebrate this with all your incredible contributions to the MoTaverse.
Love the vid. 🤩
I look forward to your continued expansion of the MoTaverse, one star at a time."
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I'm so excited about my 50 community stars:
The MoTaverse is REaLLY a big open sky—full of opportunities to contribute, to learn, and to grow. It opens so many paths for its members!
Each star ...
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What does AI say about software testing?
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How adding a flex-wrap almost spiraled out of control
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A new era ahead
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My Story Chart
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The Reimagined Tester and How to Grow One
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Quality Chapter
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Definitions of Quality Chapter
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Thanks for curating a new public collection on Contract Testing.Â
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Community always has the answers
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"I don't know what the answers are but what I do know is that community always has them should we choose to explore." – Rosie Sherry during a
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Start small, build trust, and grow your influence to shape how quality is valued across an organisation
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👋 Welcome to the MoTaverse! Thanks for upgrading to a professional membership. Team MoT and the community are here to help.Â
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The AI Bubble and Big Tech’s Bid to Dominate the Economy
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See you at TestBash! 😃
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Notes of key moments and learnings from Leading with Quality - Podcast, where the guest was Matthew Whitaker.
You can watch the podcast series here: https://www.ministryoftesting.com/collections...
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Hi folks !
All these years in Quality Assurance , our team have faced the biggest headache in the name of flaky test or we can say false test failures. Being fooled again and again for these fa...
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"Nice one, Jokin. Cheers for introducing yourself. See you in person soon! "
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"Good to meet you, Dima. See you in person soon!
I'm also looking forward to feeling the spirit of Q U A L I T Y. 😎"
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Call me Dima because you won't be able to pronounce my name ;D.
I’m coming from Berlin, originally I'm from Ukraine. My role is: Manual software tester. And it's been like this for the last 7 yea...
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Hello! This is Jokin from Valencia, Spain.
My current role is Problem Manager in Nespresso.
I´m coming to TestBash as an Attendee
I been to testbash many times.
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ISEB certified
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ISEB certified
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Searching for "BCS" in my photo app, I stumbled across this.
What a blast from the past. I got ISEB certified (now ISTQB) in 2004.
How times have changed!
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Searching for "BCS" in my photo app, I stumbled across this.
What a blast from the past. I got ISEB certified (now ISTQB) in 2004.
How times have changed!
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About Me:
I’m coming from: London, UK
My role is: QA Lead
I’d love to meet others who are into: API Testing, Contract Testing
I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as a: Speaker
I’ve been to TestBash: T...
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Hi, I am Jaime from London and will be attending both days of TestBash 2025. This will be my first time attending and excited to experience the event
Looking forward to seeing you all there
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Thanks for posting Explain your job as poorly as possible!It made me properly chuckle, and no doubt the replies will too.Â
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"I click on profiles and tell them how cool they are."
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There was a post on social media where people were asked to describe their job as poorly as possible. I said I basically click things and pester people with questions!
How would you describe you...
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Mega bug congrats on your first MoTaverse article! It's jammed packed with gold. Love the honesty and openness. 🤩May this be one of many more contributions. Nice one, Gary!Â
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Learn from the mistakes and career lessons of an experienced leader to shape your path as a trusted leader in quality.
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