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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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This meme captures the reality many testers face when flashy automation dashboards show near-perfect pass rates, but bugs still slip into production. Often, it’s the quiet power of exploratory test...
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Explore how leading with quality at an organisational level means balancing strategic change with day-to-day coaching and care.
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Really enjoyed seeing all the pictures of the back of my head on so many LinkedIn posts from BCS SIGiST 2025 😂
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Be Inclusive. Be Human.
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I recently had a good chat with Callum Akehurst-Ryan about representation. He's a queer man in tech and continues to do wonderful things to amplify the importance of inclusivity and representation ...
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Callum Akehurst-Ryan's collection of blogs and talks dedicated to Pride Month and being an LGBTQIA+ engineer.
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We've been doubling down on the idea of MoTaverse, we are a platform. We are a place to gather.
Whilst, this has been the case for many years, it's not since the past 12 months that we've put ou...
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Good people, good chats, good learning
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Good people, good chats, good learning
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19/07/25 London.
Thanks to the SIGiST team for organising and running a lovely conference. Some solid talks about AI.
At the end of the day myself, Eamon, Ayesha, Andy, Jit and Bug had a de...
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19/07/25 London.
Thanks to the SIGiST team for organising and running a lovely conference. Some solid talks about AI.
At the end of the day myself, Eamon, Ayesha, Andy, Jit and Bug had a de...
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The Tester - Issue 80
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Why is psychological safety important to software engineering teams?
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Quality Radar: A new way to visualise Quality
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Me and Bug off to the 2025 BCS SIGiST Conference
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Me and Bug off to the 2025 BCS SIGiST Conference
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“Bug! Bug! Bug!” shouted my seven year old son as I said goodbye to him for the day. He loves this Bug t-shirt.
So the two of us (Bug, not my son) stand ready at the train station. We’re all se...
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“Bug! Bug! Bug!” shouted my seven year old son as I said goodbye to him for the day. He loves this Bug t-shirt.
So the two of us (Bug, not my son) stand ready at the train station. We’re all se...
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There were so many great comments in the chat during The Awesome Power of Shifting Left.I captured a few of them. Thanks everyone for you commentary contributions.
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Software Testing Live Ep 4 — Community Commentary
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There were so many great comments in the chat during The Awesome Power of Shifting Left.I captured a few of them. Thanks everyone for you commentary contributions.
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Thank you for demonstrating many helpful things during Episode 4 of Software Testing Live. Team MoT and the community are grateful. 🤩
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Thank you for demonstrating many helpful things during Episode 4 of Software Testing Live. Team MoT and the community are grateful. 🤩
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What a great session, so many good insights and snippets, too many to log them all, but I very much enjoyed taking note of some of the words being used when talking about shifting left.- What not h...
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Selling Testing into a Project
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An Introduction to Chaos Engineering for Testers
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A Tech Leader’s Reflections on People, Scale, and Innovation
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Feature Chat Sheet: Conversation Starters
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Rituals for successful public speaking
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Explore the challenges and insights from a tester's journey into conducting fair and effective interviews
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A picture of a young man biting his finger, while sat on a leather chair an annoyed look on his face, with text reading "My face when the PO asks if testing will delay the release."
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Thanks for helping someone with their question related to MoT FCTA task 2.4.2.
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Antonella, Maite and Ben
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Great to make it to the end of TestBash and chill at the social.
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Shoutout to these brave testers who stepped up for our very first 99-Second Talks at MoT Berlin.
No slides. No scripts. Just real voices, sharp insights, and the courage to share them.
You made...
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At Leeds Atelier Jit Gosai spoke on Pyschological Safety.
And here's a slide where he talks about VUCA (Volatile, Uncertainty, Complex, Ambigious)
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A lovely moment from Leeds Testing Atelier; folks excited to meet, in their words, "the Rosie Sherry!"
Rosie is pictured here with Layla Abbott and another attendee, both newer to testing and pa...
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A great memory from Leeds Testing Atelier on 13 May 2025—thanks to sitting next to Lauren Borodajko , I ended up front and center in the picture during Emily O'Connor's insightful talk on "Testing ...
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Emily presenting from Muggle to Magician at MoT Barcelona Meetup
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Over the last couple of days we've achieved another major milestone for Quality and the culture we are building at Capital One in the UK.
We have been running events in both our London and Nott...
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Say Cheese! Photo Booth time from the last Test Exchange!
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