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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, Sergio and Gwen
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
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Simon, Sergio and Gwen image
A feel-good memory from TestBash 2024. Simon Tomes, Sergio Freire and Gwen Diagram pose for a happy selfie.
Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London image
Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
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Mind the Gap (in your thinking) - My day at the British Computing Society in London image
On Thursday 19th June, the British Computing Society (BCS) held their annual conference in London for the "Special Interest Group in Software Testing" (SIGiST). This year I spoke at the conferen...
Leadership in Quality image
Leadership do not come with the title. It's an art, style and capability to do it. Anyone can extend their hand, raise voice to lead who has a strong feeling and willingness to take the ownership a...
How to Design and Execute Effective Social Engineering Attacks by Phone image
How to Design and Execute Effective Social Engineering Attacks by Phone
Stop thinking in steps. Start thinking in systems. image
Stop thinking in steps. Start thinking in systems.
Why Employees Are Done with Traditional Leadership (What to Do About It) image
Why Employees Are Done with Traditional Leadership (What to Do About It)
LLM-as-a-Judge: A Practical Guide image
LLM-as-a-Judge: A Practical Guide
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
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Beyond the Static: How Image-to-Image Generative AI can Revolutionise Product Content Personalisation image
Beyond the Static: How Image-to-Image Generative AI can Revolutionise Product Content Personalisation
Mitigating risk in large-scale financial data migration image
Mitigating risk in large-scale financial data migration
Feedback Is Not an Attack image
Feedback Is Not an Attack
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
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Letting Playwright MCP Explore your site and Write your Tests image
Letting Playwright MCP Explore your site and Write your Tests
Hello my name is Stu Day image
Hello, my name is Stu Day About Me: I’m coming from: Bourne, Lincolnshire, UK My role is: Head of Quality & Quality Talks Founder/Podcast Host I’d love to meet others who are into: To...
We're Using AI Wrong and It's Making Us Stupid image
We're Using AI Wrong and It's Making Us Stupid
What's going to happen to junior engineers? image
What's going to happen to junior engineers?
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Christine Pinto for:
Great to see you appreciate help from the community in support of your talk at LDX3 London, via this post on The Club... image
Great to see you appreciate help from the community in support of your talk at LDX3 London, via this post on The Club: What do you want engineers and management to know about Quality? 
A nice quality of a leader is to have a bravery to admit that you don't know something image
A nice quality of a leader is to have a bravery to admit that you don't know something. Because it's not possible to know every other aspect of the processes, products and tools. — Oleksandr Rom...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Elisse for:
Thanks for bigging up Ben and Callum on your The Club post: How do you apply the Shift-Left Approach?   image
Thanks for bigging up Ben and Callum on your The Club post: How do you apply the Shift-Left Approach?  
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Rahul Parwal for:
Thanks for being conversational, welcoming and encouraging on your The Club post: What have you done to get the most ... image
Thanks for being conversational, welcoming and encouraging on your The Club post: What have you done to get the most out of your MoT profile? 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Ben Dowen for:
Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing, Episode 95. Team MoT and the community are glad you brought folks toge... image
Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing, Episode 95. Team MoT and the community are glad you brought folks together to discuss many topics related to leadership. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Nataliia Burmei for:
Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing, Episode 95. Team MoT and the community are glad you brought folks toge... image
Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing, Episode 95. Team MoT and the community are glad you brought folks together to discuss many topics related to leadership. 
I’m wrong. This is good. image
I’m wrong. This is good.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
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👋 Add your job title to your MoT Profile, we're doing some research! image
In the MoTaverse we're doing some research into job titles and you can help by updating your MoT Profile with your current or most recent job title. It will only take a moment to do via
50% of women leave the tech sector before their 35th birthday to never return image
50% of women leave the tech sector before their 35th birthday to never return
What is An Automation Test Suite? How To Build Them? image
What is An Automation Test Suite? How To Build Them?
Refining input guardrails for safer LLM applications with Capital One image
Refining input guardrails for safer LLM applications with Capital One
Katalon and RMIT expand strategic partnership to build an AI-ready workforce image
Katalon and RMIT expand strategic partnership to build an AI-ready workforce
 MCP Gives LLMs Full Access: Postman Fixes It [Between 2 Devs] image
MCP Gives LLMs Full Access: Postman Fixes It [Between 2 Devs]
A Practical Guide to Generating Squish Test Scripts with AI Assistants image
A Practical Guide to Generating Squish Test Scripts with AI Assistants
UI Testing: Essentials & Best Practices image
UI Testing: Essentials & Best Practices
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
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Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Leila Gregory for:
Thank you for sharing kind words about TestBash. Team MoT is so glad to hear how much the MoT community changed your ... image
Thank you for sharing kind words about TestBash. Team MoT is so glad to hear how much the MoT community changed your life. 
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