Simon Tomes | Activities
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Take charge of your career by mapping your impact, building feedback loops, and making deliberate choices that keep you learning and moving forward
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Navigating a career in Quality Engineering
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Navigating a career in Quality Engineering
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Start small and shift your mindset from assuring quality to assisting others in building it throughout the development process
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How to start continuous quality in your team: Take the first step and change your mindset
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How to start continuous quality in your team: Take the first step and change your mindset
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The "So What" Test
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Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream
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The good, the bad, the ugly
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16 ideas for your quality narrative
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16 ideas for your quality narrative
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16 ideas for your quality narrative
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16 ideas for your quality narrative
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Thanks for being part of the team onboarding session. We look forward to seeing you around the MoTaverse. Let us know how we many continue to help you and your colleagues.
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The "So What" Test
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The Testing Planet orbits London
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Take care of ... quality
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Great to see you at Testmas! Thank you for allowing us to experience a positive community of practice event at the BBC.
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Great to see you at Testmas! Lovely to experience a positive community of practice event at the BBC.
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Great to see you at Testmas! Lovely to experience a positive community of practice event at the BBC.Congrats on your talk! 🏆
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Great to see you at Testmas! Lovely to experience a positive community of practice event at the BBC.
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Great to see you at Testmas! Lovely to experience a positive community of practice event at the BBC. We're so glad we got to amplify your profile.
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Quality is Emergent
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Great to see you at Testmas! Lovely to experience a positive community of practice event at the BBC.
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Why Good Products Feel Broken
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⭐️ The social networks don’t serve your career. The MoTaverse does. 🌶️
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⭐️ The social networks don’t serve your career. The MoTaverse does. 🌶️
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Explore the challenges and insights from a tester's journey into conducting fair and effective interviews
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From software tester to interviewer: Lessons from my first interview process
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From software tester to interviewer: Lessons from my first interview process
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The "So What" Test
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At MoT London, very cool! Bug congrats to all the brave ones!
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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The Quality Queue for 99 Second Talks
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Great to see your Leading With Quality conversation featured on the MoT homepage.
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Focusing on balanced outcomes, not just output
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The "So What" Test
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The "So What" Test
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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