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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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Thanks for persevering with the video file size limitation for a MoT Memory. We appreciate you recording again so that you could make it work within the constraints.
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Thanks for accepting the challenge of sharing a leadership story as a Memory. It's brilliant! Leadership Talks: The Art of Letting Go.
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I have always enjoyed the "doing" aspect of my job. For long, I considered this to be the pathway to excellence and leadership.
However, in my recent endeavours with leadership, I have come to ...
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Thank you for continuing to amplify MoT. We appreciated your "MoT is what I call 'Home' for QAs" post. 🤩
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Sunk cost fallacy
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Definitions of Sunk cost fallacy
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Discover how to navigate the challenges of integrating into a team unfamiliar with dedicated testers
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Use your MoT profile to showcase for your work and contributions and have a living portfolio that grows with you
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Luis kick starts our MOT Barcelona Reloaded edition at the MyTheresa (LuxExperience) office with his talk on how migrating from CucumberJS to Playwright Runner ended up in lots of gains for his team!
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Mauro gives the second talk of the night, this time giving an epic demo on how he implemented all types of tests for a microservice, and why it matters!
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I tuned into a conversation on testing debt for STEC with Veerle Verhagen and Lewis Prescott
What a wonderful conversation covering so many aspects of testing debt:
- What factors influence how...
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Thanks for spotting the incorrectly labelled help text on the This Week in Testings page search field.
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You're setting yourself up for failure if QA owns quality
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JItesh shared this powerful line about ownership during a The Testing Planet Cosmic Discussion: The limitations of shift-left and existing practices.
Some questions to ask yourself about your cu...
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Thanks for sharing your ideas about improving the MoT membership page for someone with a professional membership. Plus, feedback about the new salaries feature. It's much appreciated.
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Does your phone have that feature where it highlights your photo memories? Here's one of mine!
In June 2024 at Ministry of Testing York, Sophie Weston presented her talk - Going Beyond DORA.
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This badge is awarded to members who choose to visibly support Pride on their Ministry of Testing profile.
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QR Podcast – Alessandra Moreira
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Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 32
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Can you find Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull?
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Thanks for sharing a bug related to how a logo is rendered on a job advert. We plan to overhaul the jobs page to make it easier for folks to post a job advert. And as part of this, we'll remove the requirement to upload and display a logo.
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The daily struggles of MoTaverse design and branding are real.
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Build confidence throughout your career. Discover big and small ways to learn and co-create with testing, QA, dev and quality engineering professionals in this week's MoT Weekly.
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I use my saved prompts when working with Gen AI platforms, the results are more predictable and it saves me time.
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This badge is awarded to members who host an episode of This Week in Quality.
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Thanks for sharing some cool ideas about how to enhance the profiles feature. Starter packs would indeed be very cool! It's on our radar and perhaps one day we might implement them.
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Test and Quality Leadership
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If juniors and interns are being replaced by AI, are we heading towards a society without seniors
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My personal QE Assessment
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Quality Assurance for Society
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What is Sanity Testing?
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I love podcasts. I've had the privilege of being on a few of them. Today was my first day co-hosting one! I was nervous, for sure, but once I settled in, made sure I had coffee in hand, and remembe...
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First Time Being a Co-Host for Ministry of Testing!
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I love podcasts. I've had the privilege of being on a few of them. Today was my first day co-hosting one! I was nervous, for sure, but once I settled in, made sure I had coffee in hand, and remembe...
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Don't worry! I'm a Tester Ep 94
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Catch up on This Week in Testing to hear how testers make progress while figuring things out, plus much more from across the MoTaverse.
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In January 2024, I embarked not only on my first job in a new career, but also on a level 4 apprenticeship as a Quality Engineer. Fast forward to June 2025 and I received the email I had been wait...
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Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing, Episode 94. You were awesome, and we're super grateful. Looking forward to hearing you co-host more! 🚀
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Judy Mosely mentioned on TWiT how she loves the community stars.
Others chimed in giving our Community Stars (algorithm) much love.
I think it was Mariem who said that she gets a notification...
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I'm listening to TWiT live and it's reminded me to post a memory about my week in testing (MWiT)
1️⃣ I'll start with something Judy said on TWiT about how community is a great place to practice....
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A 360 review of AI agent benchmarks
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The playbook for responsible generative AI development and use
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