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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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Chapter Lead
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Empathy in FinTech Testing: The Human Element Behind Every Transaction image
Empathy in FinTech Testing: The Human Element Behind Every Transaction
TWiT rules are to be broken image
TWiT rules are to be broken
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
TWiT rules are to be broken image
It was such a delight to see Dan Billing in the audience at a recent This Week in Testing. It was a real treat that he was up for speaking on stage. TWiT is a voice-only event, yet Dan kept his...
Hello, my name is Ben Dowen image
I’m coming from: Mansfield, England, UK My role is: Lead Quality Engineer I’d love to meet others who are into: Collaborative ways of working, quality leadership and anything technology I'...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Emily O'Connor for:
Thanks for sharing a job advert in the MoT Slack jobs channel.  image
Thanks for sharing a job advert in the MoT Slack jobs channel. 
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Mariem SAFI for:
Thank for your for sharing another job advert in the MoT Slack jobs channel.  image
Thank for your for sharing another job advert in the MoT Slack jobs channel. 
Hello, my name is Veerle Verhagen image
I'm coming from the Netherlands I'm a quality engineer for Dutch Railways I'm coming to TestBash as a host! I'm super interested in and would love to talk to others about human-centred technolog...
Leadership idea - build relationships image
You've heard the cliché, it's not what you know, it's who you know. When people see you as a leader and look to you for answers, you can't know everything. Invest time in building relationships not...
AI doesn’t fail at randomness. It fails at complexity. image
Apple just tested the smartest "reasoning" AI Models out there: Claude 3.7 Sonnet, DeepSeek-R1, OpenAI’s o1/o3. The verdict? They didn’t just underperform. They 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲𝗱 when things got to co...
Hello my name is Gary Hawkes image
About me: I'm coming from: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK My role is: QA Lead I'd love to meet others who are into: Leadership and anyone into improving software quality, however they do it I'm c...
Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 31 image
Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 31
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Where's Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull? – No. 31 image
Can you find Bug, Space Duck and Space Seagull?
Hello, my name is Tom Game image
About Me: I’m coming from: Cambridge, UK My role is: Quality and Test Engineer I’d love to meet others who are into: Testing AI systems | Neurodiversity in Quality and Testing | All things quali...
Hello, my name is Rahul Parwal image
A few things I’m proud of: 🧪 I break things for a living (so they don’t break in the wild). 📍 Based in Jaipur, India’s Pink City, where the testing passion runs deep. 💼 Software Testing Specia...
Hello, my name is Nat image
About Me: I’m coming from: Surrey/London, England My role is: Lead Quality Engineer I’d love to meet others who are into: quality engineering, leading quality teams, building quality cultu...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Follow you, follow me, quality engineering community: MoT Weekly – Issue 520 image
What impact can following people in the MoTaverse have on your career and those around you? Read a roundup of news, events and actionable ideas in this week's MoT Weekly.
Test shirt please ignore image
Test shirt please ignore
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Test shirt please ignore image
You can imagine my delight when I spotted this bloke in my local Waterstones bookstore. "I'm a tester, can I get a photo of your t-shirt? It is so cool!" "Sure, I'm a developer. My kids got me ...
Take software development practices with a pinch of salt image
A reminder that one size does not fit all and that time moves on
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Kristina Halbig for:
Thanks for introducing yourself on the Q2 2025 Introductions thread. Welcome to the MoTaverse. 👋 image
Thanks for introducing yourself on the Q2 2025 Introductions thread. Welcome to the MoTaverse. 👋
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Preeti Gupta for:
Thanks for sharing feedback about the community stars feature and deleted items.  image
Thanks for sharing feedback about the community stars feature and deleted items. 
Hackers discover Nintendo Switch 2 exploit one day after launch — minor hack allows running custom code on top of OS image
Hackers discover Nintendo Switch 2 exploit one day after launch — minor hack allows running custom code on top of OS
Hello, my name is Ady Stokes  image
About Me: I’m coming from: near Leeds in West Yorkshire, UK My role is: freelance IT and accessibility consultant I’d love to meet others who are into: accessibility, quality engineering, teach...
Hello, my name is Preeti Gupta image
About Me: I’m coming from: Bristol, UK My role is: QA Professional I’d love to meet others who are into: Passionate about Software testing, Quality coaches, AI in testing I'm coming to TestBa...
Empowering others image
I am a big believer that confidence is built on actively doing things. Particularly, doing things you never done before, there is no much evidence it will work or people who would confirm your theo...
Hello, my name is Scout Burghardt image
About Me: I’m coming from: Brighton, UK My role is: QA Lead in a small web agency I'm coming to TestBash 2025 as a: Ambassador and Attendee of course I’ve been to TestBash: Once before (last ...
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Gary Shannon for:
Thank you for sharing kind words about TestBash via the TestBash glossary entry.   image
Thank you for sharing kind words about TestBash via the TestBash glossary entry.  
Testing inside the boxes and beyond Ep 93 image
Testing inside the boxes and beyond Ep 93
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Testing inside the boxes and beyond Ep 93 image
Testing meetups, community memories, and finding your voice — the This Week in Testing crew shares insights, inspiration, and reflections from around the globe.
Who needs Chat-GPT when you have MoT-GPT image
A discussion on TWIT had me wondering what 'Grey Box Testing' was. Luckily, some lovely people were on hand to answer my question!
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Demi Van Malcot for:
Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing Episode 93. 🙌 image
Thank you for co-hosting This Week in Testing Episode 93. 🙌
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Rosie Sherry for:
Thanks for accepting the challenge of creating a glossary item during a This Week in Testing episode. 🤩😅 It's Grey Bo... image
Thanks for accepting the challenge of creating a glossary item during a This Week in Testing episode. 🤩😅 It's Grey Box Testing. 
Hello, my name is TestBash  image
To post a memory, visit the Memories page and select "+ Create Memory". Here is a helpful template : Hello, my name is... (Landscape self...
The Agentic Identity Journey image
The Agentic Identity Journey
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Testing a LottieAnimation in Compose image
Testing a LottieAnimation in Compose
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Selenium Community Live - Episode 6 image
Selenium Community Live - Episode 6
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Celebrate the code you didn’t write image
Celebrate the code you didn’t write
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Interesting bugs: Artifact building failure caused by GitHub API rate limits image
Interesting bugs: Artifact building failure caused by GitHub API rate limits
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
awarded Melissa Fisher for:
Thank you for mentioning the MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate (MoT-SQEC) in your blog post: Why do we nee... image
Thank you for mentioning the MoT Software Quality Engineering Certificate (MoT-SQEC) in your blog post: Why do we need a QE at all? Glad to hear you're excited about it. Team MoT is too! 😃
Why do we need a QE at all? image
Why do we need a QE at all?
Simon Tomes
Simon Tomes
contributed:
Quality Talks Podcast - 1st Anniversary Live Show! image
Quality Talks Podcast - 1st Anniversary Live Show!
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