Simon Tomes | Activities
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Bridging the Gap Between Reliable APIs and Unpredictable AI
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On Unit / Integration / Regression Tests and Terminology
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Most teams engineer products better than they engineer teams
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The beauty of constraints
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Engineering velocity on steroids
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Great managers meet uncertainty with curiosity and confidence
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The Designer-Developer Handoff Is Still Broken — why?
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Planit Global Quality Index Report 2025/26
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Thoughts from a woman in tech on Dunelm’s Women In Tech Week
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Monitor logs from Amazon EKS on Fargate with Datadog
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Debug Docker Builds with Visual Studio Code
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Confluent: The Real-Time Backbone for Agentic Systems
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September 2025 in Auth0: Advanced Security Controls and Auth0 for AI Agents
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From Lakehouse to Digital Mind: Architecting a Multi-Agent AI Ecosystem on Databricks
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Copilot Instructions Example. Provide top-level page object with Copilot instructions for faster test writing.
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10 Tips for Writing Playwright Tests with Cursor
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Keep Stirring the Pot: Lessons from Julie & Julia
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Rapid test prototyping with MCP and AI
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A Lack of Inspiration – Ideas for Community Sessions: Lean Coffee
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The Uncanny Valley of AI Testers
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The greatest skill of a quality engineer!
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💡Quality Insight: How to Ignite Quality Conversations
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QR Podcast – Fiona Charles
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Selfie time with awesome folks
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Most conferences end when you walk out the door. hashtag#MoTaCon doesn’t.
It lingers.
- In the conversations that turn into ideas.
- In the ideas that turn into experiments.
- In the people w...
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Thanks for reintroducing yourself on the Introductions Thread – Q4 2025. Very glad more folks will get to online-meet you. 😃
My first intro thread where I can say that I have a QA job 😆
Heck yeah!
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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