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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.

MoTaverse Team
Chapter Lead
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Preeti Gupta for:
Thanks for sharing feedback about the Memories feature. Great idea to make it an option to edit and change the image.  image
Thanks for sharing feedback about the Memories feature. Great idea to make it an option to edit and change the image. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Jesse Berkeley for:
Thanks for your idea to include a share option on an events page.  image
Thanks for your idea to include a share option on an events page. 
Got my Community Certificate! Can you decode the special cert number? image
I finally got my Community Certificate and Simon gave me a special certificate number. 🤭 Can you decode it?
Got my Community Certificate! Can you decode the special cert number? image
Got my Community Certificate! Can you decode the special cert number?
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Got my Community Certificate! Can you decode the special cert number? image
I finally got my Community Certificate and Simon gave me a special certificate number. 🤭 Can you decode it?
Testing in Style: Hat Edition image
I found this pic from the memories of TestBash 2024. I and Christine having great talk about Quality keeping the Hat Mode Activated
LLM safety & security: NeurIPS 2024 insights image
LLM safety & security: NeurIPS 2024 insights
Building a Multi-Platform Testing Strategy: Tools and Best Practices image
Building a Multi-Platform Testing Strategy: Tools and Best Practices
How To Write A Test Script? A Practical Guide image
How To Write A Test Script? A Practical Guide
POST/CON 25 Keynote Recap image
POST/CON 25 Keynote Recap
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Performance Testing Metrics: How to Track With Precision image
Performance Testing Metrics: How to Track With Precision
Qt World Summit 2025: Future of Tech with the Global Qt Community image
Qt World Summit 2025: Future of Tech with the Global Qt Community
Why Apple skipped iOS 19 and went straight to iOS 26 – the reason makes so much sense image
Why Apple skipped iOS 19 and went straight to iOS 26 – the reason makes so much sense
Hello, my name is Kulas Angeles image
I’m coming from Okotoks, Alberta, Canada I am Director for Software Quality Engineering at Sun Life Financial in Canada I’d love to meet others who are into coaching, personal development, qu...
I'm MoT music legend 🏆 image
Judy Mosley recently launched MoT Music League..I joined her an I enjoyed it A LOT! We submitted songs, we shared what we like and we had much of fun ✨ Thanks everyone who joined our league 🫰 ...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Anne-Marie Charrett for:
Cool to see your wise words featured on the MoT homepage in this memory: The reality of change. Thanks for continuing... image
Cool to see your wise words featured on the MoT homepage in this memory: The reality of change. Thanks for continuing to share your knowledge with the world. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Emily O'Connor for:
Nice one for amplifying Aj Wilson by sharing the story of how she helped one of your ex-colleagues. image
Nice one for amplifying Aj Wilson by sharing the story of how she helped one of your ex-colleagues.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Aj Wilson for:
Emily O'Connor shared how helpful you'd been to one of her ex-colleagues who is looking for a job. Nice one!  image
Emily O'Connor shared how helpful you'd been to one of her ex-colleagues who is looking for a job. Nice one! 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Nataliia Burmei for:
Thanks for highlighting that The Club doesn't support a two-character search, such as "AI". Glad we've now fixed that.  image
Thanks for highlighting that The Club doesn't support a two-character search, such as "AI". Glad we've now fixed that. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Susanne Abdelrahman for:
Thanks for inspiring this cool-looking t-shirt!  image
Thanks for inspiring this cool-looking t-shirt! 
I'm famous image
I'm so famous they made a tshirt of me! Get yours on the MoT Store
AI is making Google Engineers 10% more productive image
AI is making Google Engineers 10% more productive
Lisa Crispin: How can we be continuously curious? image
Discover how running small, courageous experiments can help any tester or quality-minded technologist truly lead with quality
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
MoT Monthly - June 2025 image
Discover exciting events and courses, new articles, glossary updates, testing trends, fun memes and memories, hot topics and new collections.
Everything I've learned has been through community image
As someone who started out with zero qualifications I've found that everything that I've learned has been through community. The stories. The resilience. Better practices. The new possibiliti...
TWiT - Knowing about testing box  image
It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box. Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product. ...
TWiT - Knowing about testing box  image
TWiT - Knowing about testing box
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
TWiT - Knowing about testing box  image
It was great talk about testing boxes - Black Box, White box and Grey box. Each technique have their own significance and can be used for software testing ensuring to deliver quality product. ...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Susanne Abdelrahman for:
Thanks for keeping the convo going and for being grateful for the replies on your Club post: How are y’all measuring ... image
Thanks for keeping the convo going and for being grateful for the replies on your Club post: How are y’all measuring product quality? 
The reality of change image
The reality of change
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
The reality of change image
Anne-Marie reminds us of the reality of what we can and can't change when in a leadership position. And the binary nature can be profound when it comes to burnout. This reminds me of Steven Cov...
When being a MoTher brings a whole new meaning image
Thanks for the name inspiration Elisse! I am now MoTher of the MoTaverse, I cannot unsee it!
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Elisse for:
Thanks for sharing feedback and ideas on how to better connect the MoT profile page with The Club profile page. image
Thanks for sharing feedback and ideas on how to better connect the MoT profile page with The Club profile page.
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Scout Burghardt for:
Thanks for sharing your appreciation for the MoT Continuous Quality course and the folks who contributed to it.  image
Thanks for sharing your appreciation for the MoT Continuous Quality course and the folks who contributed to it. 
Early feedbacks are always special image
Got feedback on the Continous Quality Course with the Ministry of Testing. I was one of the co-author for it. Always a great feeling when your work translates to actual value for people who inte...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded David Baldwin for:
Thank you for sharing a job opportunity on the MoT Slack.  image
Thank you for sharing a job opportunity on the MoT Slack. 
Hello, my name is Stuart Thomas image
Hello, my name is Stuart Thomas About Me: I’m coming from: Shropshire, UK My role is: Head of Quality I’d love to meet others who are into: Continuous improvement, both of teams and themselve...
Lessons in quality engineering from working with Cursor and Windsurf image
Experiment with AI development tools to understand their impact on delivery speed and the quality challenges they create for engineering teams
AI doesn’t belong in test runtime image
AI doesn’t belong in test runtime
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